{"id":18753,"date":"2025-08-06T10:39:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lca.org.au\/worship\/wpp\/?page_id=18753"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:04:07","slug":"seasonal-reconciliation-week","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lca.org.au\/worship\/wpp\/seasonal-reconciliation-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconciliation Week Seasonal Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\tSeasonal Resources &#8211; National Reconciliation Week\n\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lca.box.com\/shared\/static\/qinnsrkl45m17mnch6qcqo1zy8c1iqav.png\" alt=\"qinnsrkl45m17mnch6qcqo1zy8c1iqav.png\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"qinnsrkl45m17mnch6qcqo1zy8c1iqav.png\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<p><strong>National Reconciliation Week<\/strong> runs from May 27 to June 3 every year.<\/p>\n<p>These dates commemorate two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey &#8211; the successful 1967 referendum, and the High Court Mabo decision respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for 2026 is <strong>All In<\/strong>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>making it clear that reconciliation is not a spectator sport and that all of us must step away from the sidelines and take action to make change. For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reconciliation.org.au\/our-work\/national-reconciliation-week\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some prayer points will be included in the service order for 31 May 2026 &#8211; Holy Trinity Sunday.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Common Grace<\/strong> has developed a detailed National Reconciliation Week Church Resources Toolkit which includes materials for worship, prayer, Bible readings, Acknowledgement of Country, action steps and a video message. You may find some of the material helpful in preparing services. The toolkit can be obtained for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commongrace.org.au\/national_reconciliation_week_moment\">National Reconciliation Week.<\/a><\/p>\nYou may find these resources from\u00a0<strong>TEAR Australia<\/strong>\u00a0helpful when planning worship, Bible studies or other Reconciliation Week events:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/assets.tearfund.org.au\/files\/TEAR-Reconciliation-Action-Kit.pdf\">Reconciliation Action Kit<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/assets.tearfund.org.au\/files\/TEAR-Reconciliation-Resources.pdf\">Reconciliation Liturgy<\/a>\n<p>National Reconciliation Week first started as the\u00a0Week of Prayer for Reconciliation\u00a0in 1993 (the International Year of the World&#8217;s Indigenous Peoples) and was supported by Australia&#8217;s major faith communities. In 1996, the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation launched Australia&#8217;s first National Reconciliation Week. In 2001, Reconciliation Australia was established to continue to provide national leadership on reconciliation.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seasonal Resources &#8211; National Reconciliation Week National Reconciliation Week runs from May 27 to June 3 every year. These dates commemorate two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey &#8211; the&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lca.org.au\/worship\/wpp\/seasonal-reconciliation-week\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18753","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lca.org.au\/worship\/wpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lca.org.au\/worship\/wpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lca.org.au\/worship\/wpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lca.org.au\/worship\/wpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lca.org.au\/worship\/wpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18753"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lca.org.au\/worship\/wpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18962,"href":"https:\/\/www.lca.org.au\/worship\/wpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18753\/revisions\/18962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lca.org.au\/worship\/wpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}