BELL RINGING: THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION FOR FAITH GROUPS

Dear One and All,

Come to-morrow and ring my chimes!!!

Well, actually the invitation is on behalf of All Saints Anglican Church, Mitcham, who is hosting this Climate Change Bellringing Event.

Here is some information  and here too about the above event being held world wide but, in particular, at All Saints Anglican Church, Whitehorse Road, Mitcham,  Melbourne to-morrow at 3pm.  Coffee and eats will be available.

Church bells will ring 350 times on December 13th, 2009 as part of the largest inter-denominational faith protest of the century. The International Day of Climate Action for Faith Groups event will include churches, synagogues, and mosques from around the world, ringing bells, sounding chimes and beating drums, in a global call for an ambitious and binding agreement in Copenhagen.

“We envisage a chain of chimes and prayers stretching in a time-line from the Fiji Islands in the South Pacific – where the day first begins and where the effects of climate change are already felt today – to northern Europe and across the globe,” explains the World Council of Churches website.

The global event is designed to encourage all faiths to mobilize parishes, congregations and members in a call for urgent action against climate change while creating a global symphony of bells, drums and prayer that will hopefully reach the ears of world politicians.

Bells, chimes and drums will sound 350 times to symbolize the safe upper limit of CO2 in the atmosphere, currently we are at an average of 388ppm and a peak of 390ppm.

ALL SAINTS MITCHAM 

IS SITUATED AT THE CORNER OF 

MAROONDAH HIGHWAY (WHITEHORSE ROAD) 

AND 

EDWARD STREET, MITCHAM.  

PICTURE OF CHURCH BELOW SO YOU CAN RECOGNISE IT.  

Related reading:

A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions
Climate, Water, Fate & Faith Climate Change & the History: Climate Change and the History
Faith groups launch climate initiative.(NATION): An article from: National Catholic Reporter
Earth in the balance: the faith community will need to step up its role as protectors of creation.(ENVIRONMENT): An article from: Sojourners Magazine

Musical Missional Festival: Urban Seed and Cornerstone in Bendigo

This past weekend was spent at a Missional Festival in Bendigo in country Victoria which was organised by two intentional Christian communities - Urban Seed and Cornerstone.  Cornerstone has always kept itself in the bush and in Australian rural and regional towns.  Great to see The Seeds, much newer than The Stones, branching out and away from Melbourne.  The guest speaker for the weekend was Tom Sine of Mustard Seed Associates.

The weekend was illuminating, inspirational and encouraging.  What more could one want....well, only great company and good food and that was there too.

I love the pictures above of Tom with Dave Fagg (Urban Seed) and Laurie McIntosh (Founder and National Director of Cornerstone) in conversation.  Seems to me like a baton is being passed there to young Dave don't you think?

Christians Against Terrorism walk free and acquitted!

Free at last. Ruddock’s rotten rules couldn’t hold them. Read all about it here.Congratulations one and all. Miss Eagle is glad that your ordeal is over. God go with you into a new day!

Radical and contemplative

Fr Michael Kelly OSB

As Miss Eagle writes, she is doing her usual Sunday morning thing - listening to Encounter on Radio National. The program this week is The Radical Search: Contemplating the Contemplative Life. If you have missed it this morning, you can listen again on Wednesday night at 7.10pm.

Of great interest to To the Desert is hearing friend of this blog, Father Michael Kelly. Michael is sub-Prior of the Monastery of St Benedict, in Arcadia, NSW. The Monastery's website is linked on the sidebar.

For more about St Benedict's, this is a link to Rachel Kohn's visit there.

Related reading:

 

Saint Benedict: The Life of Our Most Holy Father Saint Benedict (A Catholic Classic!)

The Rule of Saint Benedict

Saint Benedict

(DVD)