Father McDermott informed me that the Finance Committee and the Parish Council voted to sell the classical windows displaying the Architectural style popular from 1770 to 1840 especially in Europe, which sought to revive Greek and Roman architecture.

I have found it difficult to understand how anyone could decide, sight unseen, to sell such a beautiful example of the Good Shepherd, styled by German artistic workmanship. The next stage is for the committee’s decision to be sent to the Trustees who are senior priests in the Archdiocese. They will determine if the procedures follow Canon Law provisions, a time honoured tradition in the Catholic Church.

If the Trustees are satisfied that the windows’ sale will not contravene Canon Law and other issues, then they will submit a report to the Archbishop who has the final decision.

Father McDermott stated months ago that he had a non-binding deposit from an interested buyer. That person was Doctor Paul Mara of Gundagai. The sale price is $150,000. 

Dr Mara vehemently opposed the initial sale and stated at the time: “My belief is we should be preserving our local history and heritage, be it spiritual or cultural.”

So dear friends and supporters, it appears to be an uphill battle now to retain the windows as the final decision rests on the Archbishop to deliver.

At this point I would like to thank all the wonderful parishioners who supported the cause to install the windows and also all the members of the community and other denominations for their kind words of encouragement. 

Keep praying and maybe we will be pleasantly surprised. As it was once said: “The impossible we can do immediately but miracles take slightly longer.”

I have great news for Ann Darbyshire about the NBN Sky Muster satellite (GP Aug 18, Gunning news).

As NBN has found a way to deliver more data to Sky Muster users at no extra cost, from October Sky Muster users will be able to buy plans of 100 gigabytes a month of peak data and 150 gigabytes of off-peak data for around $120. This is a huge improvement. It’s worth remembering that under Labor, users were to receive 35 gigabytes a month.

The second satellite is now carrying users (Labor wanted it to orbit earth as a backup only) and Sky Muster had 90 per cent less outages in April than it did last October. The remaining outages tend to be contained to only one of Sky Muster’s 102 beams and last less than five minutes.

The Coalition inherited Sky Muster from Labor, and things didn’t start perfectly, but we’re now getting the best out of it.

Can you change reality by re-defining words?

From ancient times, marriage has been one man plus one woman.

All re-defining can achieve is to take us from a definition that makes sense to one that is non-sense.

Redefining marriage as the union of “any two people regardless of gender” will inevitably lead to further redefinitions straying further and further from traditional family structure.

Like bisexual people, wanting a male spouse plus a female spouse, demanding that the word “two” be replaced by “three”?

Ultimately, once we’ve all been coerced into accepting gender-fluid theory as fact, we’ll have to allow people any number of spouses of multiple genders.

At present, same-sex couples can be recognised as next-of-kin etc.

The rest of society has already bent over backwards to avoid unjust treatment.

What is marriage equality? Are we to bless homosexual marriage? Australians shouldn’t be voting on this issue because what people do behind closed doors is their business.

It’s well documented over the last several decades that we’re in a social revolution designed to break down the traditional family of man and woman and children.

Society is under attack and it’s directed against the traditional family of man and woman with children.

Core values are undermined and discarded then replaced with alien ideas. This is how the communist state is built. We’ll be hearing much more of this matter before citizens put pen to paper in the up-coming postal vote.

Your editorial re Union Street debacle comments will not fix the problem.

You state “restore the left hand turn on red sign”, but this will not help much. All you need is for one vehicle to be going straight through (in the left lane as the right lane is right turn only), which will then block any traffic wanting to turn left.

What is needed is for the left lane to be left turn only (and be able to turn on a red) and the right lane to be turn right or go straight through with sufficient time on the lights to allow more traffic through in peak times. That’s my two cents worth.