Reflection

The unity in diversity of Christ’s body means that the Church can be ‘likened to an “organic” communion’, or ‘a living and functioning body.’ This body is characterised by ‘a diversity and a complementarity of vocations and states in life, of ministries, of charisms and responsibilities.’ Such diversity and complementarity enriches the life of the Church, whereby each member is enabled to make a valuable contribution, according to the gifts distributed by the Holy Spirit.

From the beginning of time, the Holy Spirit has been in this land of Australia, communicating the goodness and beauty of God and awakening a desire for the Sacred in the hearts of its people. For thousands of years the Aboriginal people have listened to the mystery of God in and through their culture, their Dreaming and their land.

(p. 5 Faithful Stewards of God's Grace, 2018)