Even though this is a Catholic school we don't get to enjoy Mass very often. After all, we are a long way from anywhere! But the Bishop of Broome, Christopher Saunders, is a lively man who deeply loves The Kimberley area and its peoples, so last Monday when he was delivering one vehicle and driving the other back from a community even further out than this Gibb River Station, he stopped by, swapped his bush-bashing gear for vestments, and said Mass. The age group attending ranged from a baby to octogenarian Maudie who is the elder of the tribe hereabouts. Significant others in the congregation included my wife Jeanette, the local community nurse Mary-Jane, headmaster Tim Clear and all our students.
Just as this State's annual Leeuwin concert has many interruptions from bird calls in the trees, so Mass had unscheduled responses from crows, bee-eaters, honeyeaters and willy-wagtails. The most delightful setting for any mass I have ever attended!
After Mass, the Bishop handed out Rosary Beads with a special touch - they were blessed by Pope Benedict.
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