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Speaker 1: Now Territorians are being invited to a multi faith gathering

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Speaker 1: for peace and justice at Saint Mary's Star of the

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Speaker 1: Ca Cathedral in Darwin tonight. It is a chance to

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Speaker 1: reflect and pray for peace and justice in conflict ridden

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Speaker 1: regions including Gaza, Palestine, Israel and Ukraine. And joining us

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Speaker 1: on the line to tell us more is Bishop Charles Guchi.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to your bishop.

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Speaker 2: And good morning to U Kate.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time this morning. Now

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Speaker 1: tell me what is this service all about and what

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Speaker 1: sparked it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and a number of people have spoken to me

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Speaker 2: about the need to do something to bring people together

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Speaker 2: of goodwill, regardless of their belief and to share the

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Speaker 2: values of our common humanity. And the initiative was taken

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Speaker 2: by a few individuals recently again, so I said, okay,

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Speaker 2: let's ride with it. So I work two hats. I

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Speaker 2: am the Catholic Bishop of the Northern Territory, but I'm

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Speaker 2: also the current chair of the Northern Territory Council of Churches,

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Speaker 2: so I'm wearing those two heads. And we had a

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Speaker 2: meeting this week where we invited faith leaders of various faiths,

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Speaker 2: not just Christian faiths, but other faiths to come together,

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Speaker 2: and we've planned a meeting for about an hour tonight

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Speaker 2: at Saint Mary's where people are invited to read something

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Speaker 2: from their sacred texts on peace, and then we listen

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Speaker 2: to some quiet music and when we are all there together,

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Speaker 2: we pray in our different ways at the same time together.

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Speaker 2: So we are praying for peace as you mentioned already

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Speaker 2: for Gaza, Ukraine other places, but also in our own

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Speaker 2: places here in our own cities that be people of

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Speaker 2: peace who. Okay, we have different beliefs and on some

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Speaker 2: things we differ significantly. However, we can disagree with love

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Speaker 2: and respect for each other and emphasize what we have

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Speaker 2: in common. So that's the spirit of how we are

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Speaker 2: gathering today. It's not a political rally. It's really about

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Speaker 2: spiritual values that we share in our common humanity.

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Speaker 1: Look, I think I think you're probably going to get

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Speaker 1: a lot of people there because you know, a lot

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Speaker 1: of people are feeling a bit dismayed at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Bishop, Yeah, yeah, yes, there are people are looking for leadership.

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Speaker 2: We need to look at the whole area of values virtue.

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Speaker 2: Virtue means choosing the greater good and really and really

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Speaker 2: rising above our immediate wants and our immediate egos, and

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Speaker 2: we need to look at the common good. I mean

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Speaker 2: the climate conversation going on at the moment in Dubai,

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Speaker 2: and it's one other aspect of all these things. But

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Speaker 2: there are so many areas where we need to say, okay,

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Speaker 2: let's let's work together. We live on the same village

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Speaker 2: we call our planet. Bishop.

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Speaker 1: Do we often have multi face events or is this

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Speaker 1: is this sort of a first for us here in

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Speaker 1: Darwin or is it something that's happened before.

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Speaker 2: Well, we have had gatherings where we've had religions for

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Speaker 2: peace come together in Parliament and we were invited to

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Speaker 2: comeba and we did. So we do have some I

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Speaker 2: mean I get invited myself, for example, and other faiths

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Speaker 2: to share some reflections. So there is some interaction. But

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Speaker 2: this was probably, in my thoughts, probably the most organized

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Speaker 2: or the largest one, we hope, not not the last,

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Speaker 2: but the first of many.

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Speaker 1: And what can people expect? It sounds as though there's

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Speaker 1: going to be readings from a number of different faiths.

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Speaker 1: Are we expecting a number of I mean how many

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Speaker 1: I guess different different religious leaders? Are we expecting to

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Speaker 1: be there?

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Speaker 2: Look on top of my head. I'm thinking about ten

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Speaker 2: or so. You know. I said as Christians, as Muslims,

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Speaker 2: as Hindus, and there are others negotiation, people communicating at

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Speaker 2: this very moment in people to come, and that's been

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Speaker 2: going on for some time. I'm hoping there could be

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Speaker 2: as many as ten different groups there, apart from not

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Speaker 2: Christians being one of them, you know. So yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and of course people of who don't belong to any religion,

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Speaker 2: so welcome to come and be there. We want all

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Speaker 2: people of goodwill to join us.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any idea how many people you are

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Speaker 1: anticipating to attend at this point, Bishop, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Our cathedral can host hundreds. Yeah, I hope. But look,

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Speaker 2: if anyone's guests, we put the invitation out, we are

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Speaker 2: inviting people, and we'll wait and see.

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, oh look, I think it's a really

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Speaker 1: nice thing to do, and a nice thing to do

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Speaker 1: as well as we lead into into Christmas. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: that there is plenty planned as well at your church

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Speaker 1: in particular over that Christmas period.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, several. We've got you know, children's liturgy and

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Speaker 2: Christmas Eve Mass, and we've got Midnight Mass and we've

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Speaker 2: got the morning Mass and the evening Mass of Christmas Day,

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Speaker 2: so there'll be quite a few celebrations. And we've got

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Speaker 2: a Philippino or Simbangabie for nine days before every evening

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Speaker 2: happening in the cathedral, which is like a novena of

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Speaker 2: preparation for Christmas. There'll be songs and there'll be a service,

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Speaker 2: and of course we've had carols happening in various of

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Speaker 2: our churches as well, and our schools soon this morning

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Speaker 2: I had an end of a year celebration emphasizing Christmas

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Speaker 2: with Saint Mary's. I've got three other schools to go

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Speaker 2: to this week. So yes, lots of.

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Speaker 1: Activities, A busy, busy time for you, no doubt. Well.

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Speaker 1: Chair of the Northern Territory Council of Churches and Catholic

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Speaker 1: Bishop of Darwin, Charles Scauchy, we really appreciate your time. Now,

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Speaker 1: what time do people need to get there tonight if

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Speaker 1: they are planning to attend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we are starting at seven, so we have the

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Speaker 2: service starting at seven. We have visited to be roughly

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Speaker 2: an hour and then after this people are invited into

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Speaker 2: the hall next door for a cup of tea coffee, water, biscuits,

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Speaker 2: whatever they fancy, but the idea was to get together

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Speaker 2: and socialize a bit together afterwards as well.

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Speaker 1: Well, Bishop Charles Gauci, we always appreciate your time. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for having a chat with me this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for inviting me Kate, Thank you you

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Speaker 1: Too, Thank you very much.