"Healing our Relationship with the Environment" - an Interfaith Worship Service on the 14th of December

I thought some of my friends might be interested in knowing about the plans for what I think will prove to be a very interesting and inspirational Interfaith worship service coming up soon, Sunday afternoon, 14th of December, here in Canberra on the theme "Healing our Relationship with the Environment."

This event was organized jointly by the Interfaith Forum of the Australian Capital Territory (IFFACT) in association with the United Ngunawal Elders Council, the ACT Indigenous Community and the ACT Palliative Care Society.

Here is the location that was selected. One can scroll down to see "Site C", quite close to Clare Holland House - Canberra's inpatient hospice facility - so that, potentially, hospice residents and their family members (who are themselves connected to a variety of cultures and spiritual traditions) can also easily access this service!

Below is the provisional outline of the program planned thus far:

PROGRAM

1. Acknowledging the Traditional Owners of the Land

2. Welcome to Country - …………
(United Ngunawal Elders Council)

3. Didjeridu interlude ………………….

4. Introduction of Theme: Kinship with the Land
(Speaker: Ngunawal Elder)………………..

5. Readings or stories from Spiritual Traditions:
a. Aboriginal/Indigenous ………………
b. Baha’i ………………
c. Brahma Kumaris ……………....
d. Buddhist ………………
e. Christian ………………
f. Hindu ………………
g. Jewish ………………
h. Muslim ………………
i. Sathya Sai ………………
j. Sikh ………………
k. Sukyo Mahikari ………………

6. Address: Healing our relationship with the Environment
Speaker: TBA

7. Musical or other cultural interlude

8. Prayers for the World and the Environment – Ahmed Youssef

9. Words of Thanks ………………

10. Light Refreshments (while visiting)