2025 Roy Bradley Oration
How do we respond together in life giving ways when terrible things happen?
In a world where genocide continues unabated with ongoing wars in Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Ukraine/Russia and Myanmar, what is our role?
You are invited to join the Centre for Spirituality of Care and Community for their annual event, delivered by Fr Michael Lapsley SSM.
Fr Michael Lapsley, a compelling and skilled speaker, author and group facilitator will speak to these questions.
A short film about healing of memories made in Montreal will begin the Oration.
When: Sunday 26 October 2025, from 5.30 – 7.00pm (AEDT)
RSVP: by 20 October to secretary@cscc.org.au or call +61 408 586 297
This is a free event however donations are welcome – cssc.org.au/donate
Speaker: Fr Michael Lapsley
Fr Michael Lapsley is an Anglican priest and a member of an Anglican religious order, The Society of the Sacred Mission. Born in New Zealand, he trained for the priesthood in Australia. He was transferred to South Africa in 1973, where he was part of the liberation struggle to end apartheid. While living in Zimbabwe he was sent a letter bomb by the apartheid regime in 1990 which blew off his hands and destroyed one eye.
In 1998 he founded the Institute for Healing of Memories. Today he is the President of the Healing of Memories Global Network. His memoir, Redeeming the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer, has been translated into many languages.
Fr Michael will reflect on what enabled him to make a redemptive response to a failed attempt to assassinate him. He will consider the importance of healing memories to transform rather than transmit our woundedness and why both “knowledge” and “acknowledgment” are important to break the chain that turns victims into victimisers as individuals, communities and nations.
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