Fr Frank’s Homily: ‘We must listen’

24 October 2020
Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO speaks at the Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta Ann D Clark Lecture in 2019. Image: Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta.

 

In his homily for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Fr Frank Brennan SJ, Rector of Newman College, Melbourne, acknowledges the 2020 National Day of Sorrow and Promise.

In his reflections, Fr Frank explains how a survivor of child sexual abuse, Wendy Holder, reached out to him, explaining her story, but offering her own words in the form of two poems.

With her permission, Fr Frank shares two of her poems, entitled Monster God and Easter 2018.

 

I’ve lived with the pain

most of my life

It does not scare me anymore

Because now I know this Monster God

grew out of the sins of man

  

Now I can live a different life

and tell my story of love desired

And perhaps one day

I will find my soul

embedded in that pain

 

Read Fr Frank’s homily to continue reading these poems.

 

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