AMPJP Executive Director’s report on June 2023
June is always a busy month. There are the preparations for the usual commitments plus the financial audit, annual report and planning for the AGM-Forum. This year was just a bit busier with advertising of the position of AMPJP Executive Director position.
The astute among you will have picked up the recent change in position title from ‘Executive Officer’ to ‘Executive Director’. The AMPJP Council decided that the new title better reflected the complexity of the position and the professionalism required of the occupant. I’m pleased to say that they believe that I am suitable for the position. However, it has long been my intention that I leave after six years and that time has now arrived.
The AMPJP Council’s recruitment panel plans to interview some applicants in July 2023. All going well, I hope we can introduce my successor in the August 2023 newsletter.
A Blessing for the New Financial Year
Let us give thanks for the real bottom line,
the place where we think less of profit and loss,
and more of gratitude and compassion.
The world is full of columns and numbers and spreadsheets and God knows we need to attend to such matters
because injustice thrives in confusion,
and power does not like to be made accountable.
But none of us works for a line in a ledger.
We work to make the world more whole.
Jesus knew a lot about money.
Thirty pieces of silver, one hundred denarii, the head of Caesar on a coin, the widow’s mite, the workers who came late, the parable of the talents, the gold at his birth, the traders in the temple, the tax collector, the treasure in a field, the pearl of great price, the lots cast for his underwear, the rich young man who went away sad, the eye of a needle.
He built deep questions around such stories and images. What are we making of the world? Why? How will we grow? The question ‘Who am I?’ is answered in another: ‘Who is your neighbour?’
May we be hungry this year rather than greedy.
Hungry for kindness and encounter.
Spendthrift of grace.
Reckoned by love.
Amen.
by Michael McGirr, 2023
New website content:
New content on News page:
- CORMSAA meeting 07 June 2023 (posted 09 June 2023)
- Reflections on a dream job (posted 09 June 2023)
- Seeking Executive Director (posted 07 June 2023)
- NATSICC launches new website on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament (posted 06 June 2023)
- Loreto seeking Canonical Stewards (posted 05 June 2023)
New content on About us page:
- added current office holders (posted 22 June 2023)
New content on Resources
- add abridged papers (1) MPJPs in Australia and (2) Canonical Stewards in Ministerial PJPs in Australia
- Religious Institute and MPJP school authorities 13 June 2023 (posted 13 and 22 June 2023)
New content on CORMSAA page:
- List of CORMSAA members (updated 01 and 09 June 2023)
- Religious Institute and MPJP school authorities 13 June 2023 (posted 13 and 22 June 2023)
New on the Events page:
- Forum of RI and MPJP School Authorities(posted 22 June 2023)
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