From: fjbremner@hotmail.com
To: helen.hill@email.com
Subject: RE: [SCMFRIENDS] Dan Berrigan memorial 6 pm Sunday 29 May Brunswick
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 20:03:29 +0930

Thank you for the invitation.  I can't make it unfortunately.  However ...

I have fond memories of Dan and Phil, Dan in particular:
1)  Their protest activities doing the Vietnam War.
2)  A comment in an article in the British SCM magazine in the early seventies: something like:
      The time may soon come, if it is not already here, when contemplation will be a subversive activity.
3)  I was watching the movie The Mission.  A scene showed some more Jesuit missionaries arriving at the
      village, getting out of the boat.  One of the actors looked different.  My heart bellowed (much like Samuel in
      Kazantzakis' portrayal of him meeting the shepherd boy David in Report to Greco).  "That's not an actor playing a priest.    
      That is a priest!"  It was his demeanor, his physical stance.  It was Dan Berrigan.  I used to say "I bet he paid to be in that
      movie!"
4)  Somewhere and somewhen he described the various generations of Jesuits: missionaries, community workers, those in
      palaces, those in the same kinds of dwellings in the street as those they served.  He said he was of this last kind.

Best wishes

Frank Bremner
Adelaide
    

To: SCMFriends@yahoogroups.com
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Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 10:03:52 +0200
Subject: [SCMFRIENDS] Dan Berrigan memorial 6 pm Sunday 29 May Brunswick

 
Some of you in Melbourne might be interested in attending this memorial for the late Daniel Berrigan SJ who was an inspiration to many in the days of the Vietnam war and later on for his radical actions.
 
From: Mary Doyle <marydoyle@iinet.net.au>
Dear Friends,

Greetings. As you may have heard, Daniel Berrigan SJ, peacemaker, poet and
priest, died in New York on 30 April 2016, aged 94.

We would like to invite you join us for a memorial gathering at 6.00 pm on
Sunday 29 May 2016 in the St Ambrose Community Centre, 287 Sydney Road,
Brunswick. In the old days they used to call such an event a Month’s Mind.
Our provisional program is:

6.00 pm. Welcome: Val Noone

6.05 pm Readings and music: yet to be finalised

6.30 pm. Eulogy: Margaret Hill

6.40 pm. Open forum

7.10 pm. Farewell: John Harte SJ

7.15 pm. Refreshments.

We will have tea and coffee on hand. As it suits you, please bring stories,
or poems, or music, or food, or drink to share, or just yourself. Thanks to
Father Michael Casey for making the Community Centre available.

Please feel free to pass this invitation on to others who you think might be
interested.

There is some public parking in Glenlyon Road east of Sydney Road behind the
Mechanics Institute and also just to the east of the Health Centre.

Below are links to a couple of obituaries; and a photograph of Dan at
Presentation Convent, Gardenvale, in May 1986 with Pat Durnan, Ted Kennedy,
Shirley Macdonald and Jan Watson.

RSVP by Friday 27 May to <marydoyle@iinet.net.au
<mailto:marydoyle@iinet.net.au>>.

Best wishes and every blessing,

Val Noone and Mary Doyle



http://americamagazine.org/issue/poet-and-prophet
<http://americamagazine.org/issue/poet-and-prophet>
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/nyregion/daniel-j-berrigan-defiant-priest-who-preached-pacifism-dies-at-94.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/nyregion/daniel-j-berrigan-defiant-priest-who-preached-pacifism-dies-at-94.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well>
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/nyregion/remembering-daniel-berrigan-a-penniless-powerful-voice-for-peace.html
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/nyregion/remembering-daniel-berrigan-a-penniless-powerful-voice-for-peace.html>


Mary Doyle
PO Box 51, Fitzroy Vic 3065 Australia
Tel: 61 3 9419 8631
Mobile: 0466 312 794
Email: <marydoyle@iinet.net.au <mailto:marydoyle@iinet.net.au>>




 


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