IN SOLIDARITY

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Jewish Community in this time of great loss!

Australia is a Land blessed by God, and we must be thankful and proud as a nation that we are free to express our cultural and religious heritages with great freedom!

There is no place in Australia for rogue sentimentalities which harbour the objective of the Anicent Rebelion which seeks to destroy what God loves most - us his creation!

It is unfortunate that most people struggle with the command in the most sublime praayer of the Shema Yisrael (Deut 6:4-9) to love one's neihbour as themselves!

Truly, if we are made in the image of the Most High, then we cannot harm others, but help mould them via extending the gift of presence ( the Living God who dwells within the Tabernacle of the human heart) as our means of blessing.

May such broken individuals who harm others be moulded via accountability and penance so that through being brought to justice - qny ill intention may be corrected as the means of true human development.

Our hearts go out to all the families that have suffered loss, and for the souls of those who have left us, we offer the great prayer of Holy Judas Maccabeus and his brothers (2Mac 12:43-46) who prayed for the loss of their own in formative times.

In the Lord who shepherds his people,

+Raffaele

METROPOLITAN ARCHBISOP

HOLY APOSTLES