MANY people joined in proudly when the National Anthem was sung on Anzac Day, and rightly so. Recently I came across another verse that has been written to the same melody as our National Anthem. It goes like this:
With Christ our head and cornerstone, we’ll build our nation’s might,
Whose Way and Truth and Light alone can guide our path aright.
Our lives a sacrifice of love reflect our Master’s care,
With faces turned to heav’n above Advance Australia Fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia Fair.
While we sing the National Anthem as Australians or residents of Australia, the verse above we sing as Christians who belong to a ‘kingdom that is not of this world’, the Kingdom of God.
Usually the law of the land and the law of God go hand in hand. But lately, our politicians have put themselves above God and brought in laws that are contrary to the law of God,
The basic law of any society is ‘You shall not kill’ This gives protection to all, especially the vulnerable and weak. Now our State Government wants to introduce euthanasia. Suddenly we are unsafe.
As the Bishops say, ‘there is no safe way to kill people or to help them to their own suicide’. We all have hard times or times of sickness, weakness or depression.
“True compassion”, as Pope Francis says, “is the compassion of the Good Samaritan, who ‘sees’, ‘has compassion’, ‘draws near’’ and provides concrete help.” We do or can do this for those in need. We don’t hand out poison pills.