[Sundaycommunity] Prophetic ‘voices’

[H. Burns]

Hi Art,
Thank you for your contribution.
Helena
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On Nov 22, 2025, at 12:37, Arthur Blomme via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:



Helena this is a very interesting exercise to recall the saints in our midst.  I am sorry that I missed the mass that week but I would like to give my two cents.

George Galloway in a recent podcast declared two saints(prophetic voices) for our age.  The first was Greta Thurnberg for her fearless participation in the recent Gaza Flotilla.  The second was Catholic pod-caster Candice Owens for her broadcasting evidence implicating the Zionist lobby in the murder of Charlie Kirk.  I however would like to recognize a Canadian saint.  It is not only  courage that determines saintliness but also the character to respond with love to the grievous injustice of institutional power.

My choice for Prophetic voice is Katie Pasitney.  At one time Development and Peace ran a campaign supporting farmers like  Percy Smizer, who lost his farm in a law suit  by big agriculture for saving the seed of patented GMO canola that had blown into his field from neighbours.  Defending farmers from big agriculture seems to have only been the flavour of the month.  Now that farmers are being persecuted by corporate owned state bureaucracies they are no longer a live concern.  Powerful saints like Katie are not featured in a positive light by corporately owned media. Thank god for a free and open internet at least for the time being.

[https://1a-1791.com/video/fww1/c8/s8/1/W/X/O/z/WXOzz.qR4e-small-COMPLY-OR-DIE-A-FAMILY-FARM.jpg]

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COMPLY OR DIE: A FAMILY FARM UNDER FIRE

Katie Pasitney of Universal Ostrich Farm joins Del just days after the Canadian government effectively waged war on her family’s livelihood—gunning down nearly 400 healthy ostriches following a ten-mo

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Art

On 11/15/25 15:08, Martha Crean via Sundaycommunity wrote:
Helena: you do a lovely recap of those who responded to your warm invitation to reflect on Prophetic voices
Thank you, Martha

On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM H. Burns via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca<mailto:sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca>> wrote:
     Thank you, Fr. Paul, David, and Dean for responding to my invitation after Mass to share a ‘prophetic voice’ that is meaningful to you today.

     Fr. Paul, your concern for the need for society as well as the Church to focus on young people today and for the future is a call that is essential. Thank you for including the actual speech of Kim Nam-joon addressing the U.N.  His skill and maturity is outstanding.

     I am, also, a huge fan of Bill Maher as a secular voice that certainly speaks ‘truth to power’. (The video is somewhat dated, of course, but for those interested, his show is available on CNN on Saturday evenings.)
Thank you, Paul.

 David, thank you
 for contributing the ‘prophetic voice’ of Rev. Maggie Helwig whom some may not know.
(I know her church well.  As a child, I lived nearby and went to nursery school there and now sometimes go to Free Times Cafe nearby.)
I did not know that she has written a new book, ‘Encampment’ on her work, but I plan to read it and hope others in our community will also do so.  She certainly deserved the award,
but I had not known that it was the day before the police dismantled the encampment at the church.  (Many outside the GTA are unaware of the inadequacy of our shelter system that drives the homeless to encampments.)

Dean, thank you for expanding our consciousness and not limiting your contribution to a human voice but rather to the ‘Cry of the Earth’. Your words embrace Creation Centred Spirituality and the environmental movement.
     Thank you also for the analogy to Jonah and the people of Ninevah.  (On Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) the story of Jonah is always included.

(Perhaps we owe  Brian a note of thanks for unknowingly stimulating  your reflection!!!)

On behalf of the community I offer a special note of gratitude and appreciation.










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