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Page THE WEEKEND OUTLOOK Friday June 1991 Peoples statements ring with reality Tenth Sunday Ordinary Time June 9 This has been a strange week Why Because of all the people who ve said such honest and in teresting things to me There must be something in the water Not since I worked in the men tal hospital have I heard so many statements that ring with reality Most in the work a day world are either conventional and polite or cunning and deceit ful Both are predictable after a while But the kind of statements that I heard this week are the kind that surprise and unsettle Some are searching and brave others are confused and yearning but all are marked by the willing vulnerability of the speaker and all have something fresh and honest to communicate Statements that ring w ith reality A seventeen year old girl told me her thoughts I d like to get pregnant My best friend has a baby All the girls on my street are pregnant I might do it too 2 A young man said that he was into witchcraft It gives me power and control I an out Witches have always been Religion and Reality by Jim Ryan outsiders A young woman confessed that she was ga She talked about her life and her relation and she made me laugh I luted it when my boyfriend French me An older man told me thai he was an agnostic Not that I want to be Id like to believe but I can I have a job in telemarketing It keeps me busy otherwise I d go crazy A young man told me that he and a friend had been beaten up outside a bar in Hull at a last weekend There were eight of them grown men at least twentyeight years old heard a woman yell Leave them alone They reonl kids A young woman said she d been approached by a grown man in a bar He had a moustache He had delivered mirrors to our house that morning I d been m my pyjamas when I answered the door It was weird seeing him Idler in the bar He came right up to mi I know you he said A young man said he was of what the summer would bnng There are so many people with knives and guns I afraid go out A woman said Nothing interesting hap pens to A manager in a major inter national corporation said company t make a cent last year I don I know what going happen 10 An older man allowed Ins daughter to put him up in a so that he t have to drive home impaired from a wedding He said Thanks dirt ring rt None of these peole belong in a mental hospital although they seem to recognize something that I learned when I worked then Life is messy That s easy to forget in our culture Except perhaps during times of recession Jesus and Reality In todays reading Jesus is misunderstood by his family and by the religious authorities from Jerusalem His family thought he was crazy The authorities though he was filled with a demon In Mark s Gospel even his disciples have difficulty understanding him If you didn notice we re back PHOTO SPECIAL Ordinary Time The feast Pentecost ended the Easter Season From now until November 25 we spend twenty five weeks reading Mark Gospel and meditating on the life of Christ His statements are pretty honest They certainly ring with reality They re worth listening to 1H0UR SAME DAY SEHVICE Passport Photos WF RENT In Mill VIDEO CAMERAS Hulls Find CROSSWAVS Always Bettor LUNCH SPECIAL Soup Sandwich Small I 8774635 United Church criticizes arms deal Members of the 67th annual meeting of the United Church of Canada Toronto Conference have criticized the federal government decision to sell automatic weapons abroad utg the provincial government consolidate its various farm stabilization and recommended that a program of multi faith education be included in the Ontario public school cur The 600 delegates meeting in Centennial Arena May to with the I Call You Friends affirmed their support for Canada s aboriginal peoples in their strug for land rights and self government Conference members urged the federal government to include members of the aboriginal communities in the proposed royal commission on aboriginal issues and the Con ference created a new task group on multiculturalism to raise the profile of the ethnic tions within its membership amongst the wider church Closer to home Conference members expressed concern for aging church populations and dwindling financial resources The meeting asked that con make a serious at tempt to include teens and young adults in their committees and on their church boards For its part the Conference agreed to reserve two spaces on each of its 22 standing committees and Con ference executive for young peo pie under 25 In recent years the Con ference budget has been in creasing as its membership declines causing an increase in the per member assessment each congregation is required to pay to the Conference for its operation In April church members for Grey many of whose members are fighting to their farms argued that they cannot afford further increases The Conference pared from the proposed budget but still had to increase the assessment rate by cents per member over 1991 s level The 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