[Sundaycommunity] Prophetic ‘voices’

[Mary MacMillan]

Thank you Art. - these are very touching prophetic thoughts.
Mary

On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM 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.
>
> rumble.com
>
> COMPLY OR DIE: A FAMILY FARM UNDER FIRE <#m_-1030830156844733893_>
>
> 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
>
> 🔗
> https://rumble.com/v71pw8g-comply-or-die-a-family-farm-under-fire.html?e9s=src_v1_wh&playlist_id=watch-history
> <https://rumble.com/v71pw8g-comply-or-die-a-family-farm-under-fire.html?e9s=src_v1_wh&playlist_id=watch-history>
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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> 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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