2019 December 19th Buy Local Grand Prize Winner and Christmas Messages

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A Christmas Message from Bob Katter

Wishing everyone a Happy and Safe Christmas and New Year

IN my home town of Cloncurry, Warren Losberg was president of St Vincent de Paul. After Church on Sunday we members took cigarettes and newspapers to the old pensioners. As a lad of 17, Warren told me, “It’s not the papers and durries – the old blokes just want someone to talk to – we can give them an hour or so, hey?”

Father Carrol’s presbytery’s rickety stairs had given up the guard rail. He had only one chair which he attempted to give to me. At 6:00pm he said, “Got to leave now and feed these kids.” A dozen kids from the no-hoper Copper Mine Creek mob were staring up at us. He explained, “They don’t get fed much, I feed them.”

“But you’ve got no money, you’re the poorest person I know.”

His answer: “Well if I don’t feed them, they don’t eat.”

One of the toughest political warriors of Australian history, Clyde Cameron, when asked “You were very close to your mother?” replied stammering with his voice breaking…

“I…I… can’t talk about my mother.”

I, like Clyde Cameron, whilst my mother died nearly 40 years ago, still cannot talk about her.

The thought that my mother could be dead – gone forever – is a burden I could not bear.

Christ’s birth means my mother lives and I will be with her again.

And if some modern scientists say

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my beliefs are simple and primitive, then might it be suggested that these beliefs are much more plausible than their explanation – that we descended from a firecracker. Worse still for their position that it all happened via ‘laws of nature’ but they can’t produce the legislator nor a bloke that lit the firecracker.

The history books generally agree that the six greatest scientists of human history were Pasteur, Newton, Einstein, Mendel, Galileo and Faraday. Some were clergymen, some priests. All were profound partisan (Judeo) Christians.

And even if you don’t like thinking about things, you’d have to admit this Bloke was one of us: “You can’t knock a bloke that turned water into alcohol.”

“A bloke that decked a few shylocks when they went right over the top.”

“And decided to get himself born in a little bush town in a shed at the back of a pub with only a few ringers around to help out.”

“When everyone was picking on this poor woman, he started writing on the footpath what all the boys had been up to, cleared the street real quick.”

“Not to mention calling the powers that be whited sepulchres.”

The most beautiful piece of music in human history Handel’s Messiah says: “Joy to the World the Lord has come.”

BOB KATTER HAPPY CHRISTMAS

A Christmas message from Shane Knuth MP 2019

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FOR 2019 I start this message with a bit of sadness for the Catholics and for our district.

The passing of Fr. John O’Connor who spent many of his 60 years of Priesthood around these parts, apart from a fair stint of time at Dimbulah and Silkwood. We thank God for his life and with Christian Faith we commend him to the keeping power of Jesus, whom St. Paul of Tarsus described Jesus as being Lord of the Living and Lord of the Dead. These two departments come under the keeping power of Jesus.

Meanwhile back to base to the theme at hand, Christmastime.

Our Bishop James Foley last week

sent to us this Christmas Message. He began talking about the meaning of the word Christmas. He said: It means the Mass of the Messiah Jesus, so the number one Mass or Holy Eucharist out of all the Masses of the year is the one at Christmas Day, the birthday of Jesus.

For many Christians, like me, travelling around a secular country in the days preceding Christmas, one could have a feeling of upset about what the exciting Christmas lights do not depict what Christmas is all about. It is hard to put into lights the truth, God the Son left off being God in heaven to come down to earth to jump into his creation. He become Jesus. That

would be a challenge to paint that story by lights. Later on, the story goes on after the nine months of pregnancy Mary had her baby. She and her husband Joseph were forced by their system of census collecting to travel to Bethlehem, the city of their most famous ancestor King David. As soon as they had arrived it was the time for the baby to be born so the best that could be organized was to get out of the cold weather and make a temporary home and shelter in a stable where the baby was born.

Meanwhile God sent a message to the Shepherds nearby that the expected great King had been born in their town that night, so they had better go over

AS Christmas draws near I like to reflect on my favourite story of the Christmas Truce in 1914 – the Battle of Flanders.

It was just five months after the outbreak of war in Europe when Christmas was approaching in 1914. The constant soaking rain gave way to frost, and the battlefields of Flanders were blanketed with snow.

After fierce fighting the sounds of the battlefield were replaced with “A Silent Night” as the Germans broke into song and the British reciprocated as a gesture of peace and goodwill.

Soon after, the two opposing forces put down their weapons and emerged from their trenches, crossing no-mans land, calling out “Merry Christmas” in

their enemies native tongues, and began exchanging gifts of cigarettes and puddings.

Who would of thought that the birth of a child 2000 years ago would have such a heartfelt impact on opposing enemies during a world war.

Christmas is like that – it can set all our differences aside. It is a time we can forget about the stresses of life, spend time with family and friends, enjoy sports and leisure and go fishing and camping.

I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a safe, healthy, prosperous new year – and not to forget, the reason for the season.

Look forward to working with you all in the year 2020.

and have a look. So, the Wise Men came from somewhere, we are not sure where, Iraq, Iran or one of the modern Arab countries to report to the mystical, magical or amazing new King. We suspect they thought they were going to greet an adult, and it was not a baby they had in their minds.

When I was a child in the 1950s, talk was just beginning using two slogans or proverbs: “let’s put Christ back into Christmas”. “Don’t forget the reason for the season is Jesus”. Christmas is meant to be all about Jesus.

But for the moment let us rejoice in the Christmas that is more secular to many Australians. Let us be glad it is the

best holiday time of the year. We try to cultivate a virtue called the Christmas Spirit. We try to make an effort to be nice to our loved ones, to our neighbours and people we bump into. So, Christmas is a party time, a time of celebration, a family time, a time for Dad or Mum or children to excel themselves in putting up very good lights.

It is a time of gift giving in our culture, it is a time for celebration.

With so much sadness or sickness in our lives or disappointments it is good to have reasons to celebrate.

A happy Christmas and God’s Blessings on the New Year from Fr. Hilary, Catholic Priest, Tully and all the Pastors and Ministers of our area.

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