KRISTINA KENEALLY: Decisions to make
New South Wales Premier, Kristina Keneally, is a Catholic.
Being a busy girl, she prays on her bike, while pedalling to work each day. As she says, “The nuns told me in primary school, you can pray anywhere.”
Mrs Keneally, also a mother, has two sons, Daniel, 11, and Brendan, 9.
Last week Daniel fell from his scooter and broke his arm.
Mum was supposed to be talking at an International Women’s Day event.
She dropped everything and went and comforted her son at the hospital.
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International Women’s Day exists, obviously, to destroy women with Mrs Keneally’s prorities.
A woman’s place, they insist, is at the office desk or, even better, at the head of the boardroom table terrorising nearby males.
Bringing up children is for those paid to know best how to do it, having studied at social-worker school, and having never had the distraction of children of their own to cloud their thoughts.
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Mrs Keneally is a smart lady.
Australians like her.
Yes, she is capable of being a Premier. She could do it on her head.
However, as she probably now realises, she should QUIT and focus on family-first duties.
Her boys are at a decisive age, probably quite keen on their excellent Mum.
Soon they’ll be teenagers and perhaps less inclined to listen.
Now is when she must put first the job of getting close to them – laying a lifelong foundation. It can only be done now. It’s a full time job.
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Today is the Fourth Sunday in Lent. Today’s gospel reading is about Jesus miraculously feeding a multitude of his followers with five small loaves.
God Incarnate as he was, and with a unique spiritual mission, Our Lord didn’t neglect the ordinary physical hunger of those dependent on him.
Mrs Keneally, despite great capabilities in multiple directions, has two young dependents whom she must put first.
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Remember Mary MacKillop — who wanted to be a nun since she couldn’t stand up – didn’t do so until aged 25. Why? Because, with her Dad unemployed, a family of small children needed to be fed.
She put all else on hold, for many long years, and put family things first.
I go always to the Old Latin (Tridentine) Mass at which, last Sunday, the gospel reading referred to in the MMK blog post of that day was read.
All Catholics are entitled to do so.
This fact was underlined by Pope Bendict XVI himself in his Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum” on July 7, 2007, which specifically re-established the Tridentine Mass in its legal right — its text clearly acknowledging that the Old Mass was never abrogated.
Can I just ask where you went to Mass this weekend?
The Gospel reading for last Sunday (aka the 4th Sunday of Lent) was the Parable of the two sons – Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
My understanding is that parable of the Loaves and Fishes was part of the pre-dates the modern common lectionaries.