ST SIMON THE APOSTLE, ROWVILLE

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Fr. Kevin Dillon - Sunday, 11 April 2021

”Believe” by Brooks & Dunn

MY JESUS,
I believe that You are present in this most holy sacrament, I love you above all things and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and I unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You.        Amen

We see through eyes of faith, we recognise God's voice in our hearts, we feel God's presence because we believe.  God's grace to know the unknowing.  The Lord has risen indeed. Alleluia!

"Without Seeing You" by David Haas

    I don’t believe that Daryl Somers needs to apologise for the nature of the comedy on Hey Hey It’s Saturday. It was reflective of its time.
    However there is a lesson to be learnt from Kamahl stating that the way he was treated on the show was hurtful to him
(his face was covered with white powder to “make him white”, among other things.
    Anyone who might say “Aww, come on, it is just a bit
of harmless fun” simply doesn’t get it, it was not “harmless” at all.
    Society has moved on, and that’s a good thing.

“Sunday Age”, Sun. April 4

    Hey Hey It’s Saturday host Daryl Somers has responded to Kamahl’s complaints about being subjected to racist taunts on the show, saying he “deeply regret any hurt” suf-fered by the Malaysian singer. Somers posted a statement on the Hey Hey Facebook page on Wednesday which said: “I have always considered Kamahl a friend and supporter of the show, so I deeply regret any hurt felt by him as a result of anything that took place on the programme in the past. Somers added: “Hey Hey It’s Saturday never set out to offend anybody but always strived to provide family entertainment.” if you’re in entertainment,
and you’re not on television, you are dead,” Kamhal said. “

‘Herald Sun”, Thurs. April 8

    At first glance, there may have been some, possibly many people who would have quickly dismissed Kamahl’s revelation this week that he felt racially humiliated in some episodes of the successful TV variety show, “Hey Hey It’s Saturday”.
    Given the many situations today in which people can claim to be “offended”, either currently or in the past, some may see his comments as trivial or trying to rewrite history.
However, a thoughtful correspondent to the “Sunday Age” last weekend probably identified the core of the issue. As Julian Guy of Mount Eliza observed, what might be thought to be “harmless fun” by a “joker” might be something quite different to the person who is the object of the “joke”.
    Physical appearance, sporting ability, ethnic and racial background and a host of other attributes can either be the source of compatibility, friendship and admiration on the one hand, or of ridicule, mockery and indeed personal abuse on the other.
    “Sticks and stones can break your bones but names can never hurt you” might have been good advice when we were young, and helped us avoid being devastated when another child teased us.
    Even so, perhaps the “names” did hurt us. And maybe some of that hurt remains with us for days, or years, or even decades. Is that hurt, those comments, that “teasing” something we might be remembering at this very moment?
    Those who initiate name-calling and insults might not really intend to hurt us - well,
not to any major extent. They most likely forget about all about it soon after the taunts
and teasing come out of their mouths.
    But as for the targets - they may well remember what has been done and said to them to for a long, long time - even to this very day. “Only joking!” “Don’t be so sensitive!” “Just having fun!” and similar defences may be genuine, but they don’t necessarily lessen, let alone eliminate the hurt that is felt.
    Kamahl has done us a favour by reminding us that what might be a throw-away line
of “teasing” for some can be an ongoing cause of hurt for those on the receiving end.

Fr. Kevin Dillon

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