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Reflection Materials

• "Putting the Flame to Blame." EUREKA STREET, Vol. 19, no. 2., 12 February 2009, source: http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=11696

• Humanity endures in Bushfire tragedy, "EUREKA STREET, Vol. 19, no. 2, 9 February 2009 source: http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=11633
• Opinion - When bad things Happen, Cath New, 19 February 2009, source: http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=11865
• Australian Wildfires - Black Saturday Reflections - Eyewitness, by Craig Parker, source: file:///G:/bushfire/reflections/australian-wildfires-black-saturday-reflections-eyewitness.htm
• Learning to live like Australians - reflections on the Victorian fires, Crawford Seminar, ANU, 24 March 2009, by Andrew Campbell of Triple Helix Consulting, source: http://www.triplehelix.com.au/documents/BushfiresSeminarANU24.3.09.ppt_000.pdf
• Victoria's bushfires: time to reflect new urban strategies, by Beatriz Maturana (Architect and Urban designer) On Line Opinion, 27 March 2009, source: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8707&page=0
• Why do bad things happen? Province Express, 18 February 2009, source:  http://www.google.com.ph/search?hl=tl&q=Why+do+bad+things+happen%3F+Province+Express&btnG=Maghanap&meta=
• The Fires.... a Reflection on the Australian Bushfires, by Michael Hansen-Director of Faith and Ministry, Lavalla Catholic College, Traralgon, Victoria, 17 February 2009, source: http://globalministries.org/news/eap/the-fires-a-reflection.html
• Reflection by Bishop John Harrower: Ecumenical Service for all those affected by the Bushfire in Victoria, 12 February 2009, source: http://www.anglicantas.org.au/index.php?item=file&target=Vic_Bushfire_Reflection
• Australian bushfires: when two degrees is the difference between life and death, by Tim Flannery, Guardian.co.uk, 10 February 2009, source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/10/australia-bush-fires
• A Pastoral Theological Reflections by Churches of Christ in Australia, source:  http://cofcaustralia.org/cofc-cms/images/stories/CofCVicTas/bushfire%20pastoral%20theological%20reflection%2012-2-09.pdf

Homily

• The Real Crisis: Lenten Pastoral Letter 2009 - Homily for all Masses 21 & 22 February 2009
  source: http://www.dow.org.au/documents/the-real-crisis-lenten-pastoral-letter-2009
• Life after the fires, Liturgy prepared by Rev Dorothy Mc-Rae-McMahon of Uniting Church in Australia: Synod of Victoria and Tasmania
  source: http://victas.uca.org.au/home/the-victorian-bushfires/worship-resources/life-after-fires-liturgy.pdf;m,1234324557
• In the grieving, after the fires Liturgy prepared by Rev Dorothy Mc-Rae-McMahon of Uniting Church in Australia: Synod of Victoria and Tasmania
  source: http://victas.uca.org.au/main.php?pg=download&id=248638
• Ecumenical Liturgy for the Victims of the Bushfires, prepared by Michael Hansen - Director of Faith & Ministry, Lavalla Catholic College, Traralson, Victoria and Sophy Morley, Diocesan Coordinator for Liturgy, Diocese of Sale, Victoria
  source: http://victas.uca.org.au/home/the-victorian-bushfires/worship-resources/ecu-liturgy-for-the-victims-of-the-bushfires.pdf;m,1234406137
• From the ashes of sorrow - Bishop Elliott's National Day of Mourning Homily, 22 February 2009 (Most rev. Peter J. Elliott, STD, Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne)
  source: http://www.cam.org.au/recovery-newsletter/from-the-ashes-of-sorrow-bishop-elliotts-national-day-of-mourning-homily.html
• Bushfire Community Service, Homily preached by Bishop Brian Farran at the Community Service in Christ Cathedral Newcastle for the victims of Victorian Bushfires, Wednesday February 11, 2009
  source:http://www.angdon.com/14/?tx_ttnews[pointer]=3&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=670&tx_ttnews[backPid]=33&cHash=de21436330
• Archbishop Hart's homily from the Mass for the victims of the bushfires (Mass celebrated by Archbishop Denis Hart at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne for the victims of the Bushfires on Thursday 12 February 2009 at 1pm
  source: http://www.cam.org.au/recovery-newsletter/archbishop-harts-homily-from-the-mass-for-the-victims-of-the-bushfires.html
• Benedict XVI prays for bushfire victims, points Australians to ‘vision of hope', 12 February 2009, Vatican City
  source: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15069