Episode Transcript
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The Turubal people travelled these
lands and waterways
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for thousands of years.
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They understood how to find
their way across great distances.
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They did so using
living landmarks,
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which they treasure
in sacred memory.
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Our own Catholic faith
is much the same.
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Because, just like this
Great Southern Land,
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the landscape of our
spiritual journey
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has cliffs, rivers, deserts
and valleys.
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We must learn how to navigate
them by a living landmark too.
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a landmark of grace.
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So what can we count on
to guide us?
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What is our living landmark?
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God’s Word.
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What King David wrote
3000 years ago is still true:
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God’s Word is “the lamp for our feet,
and the light for our path.”
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It was true for him in
ancient times,
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it is still true for us in our
modern-day Australia.
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It will always be true because
our landmark of grace
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the Word of God, is active and alive.
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For me, whenever I open the Gospels,
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whenever I prepare the homilies,
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even the same passages,
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I always encounter something new.
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It is something our Catholic faith
has professed for centuries.
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The Word of God that
we read from Scripture,
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the Word of God uttered
to create the universe,
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that same Word,
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became a Man and
lived with us.
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He taught us the landmarks.
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He died for us
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and rose again
to show us the Way.
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Scripture,
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the sacraments,
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the lives of the saints,
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the teaching of the Church
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these are all gifts from
the living landmarks of Christ
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A landmark of love.
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A landmark of mercy.
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It does not change
in the seasons,
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it does not disappear
in bad weather.
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God’s Word will be with us, always.
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How many of us have Bibles
in our house
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that we do not open?
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Friends, open it up.
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Read His Words.
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Give yourself time
to follow the Way.
