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Australian Governance Circle Logo
(Created by Brisbane artist Jenny Close) This Logo was commissioned to celebrate the new structure of the Australian Governance Circle drawn up by the Sisters searching together for an appropriate contemporary expression of our Franciscan way of life reflecting our call to communion in mission and growth into "a more relational way of living according to the principles of Clare" (Ch. Statement 2001). The stars of the Southern Cross are the dominant feature. They remind us of our locality in the southern hemisphere. The green and gold of the circle, the earth, is specifically Australian. The Southern Cross which hangs in our skies reminds us that Christ watches over us. It is a reminder of our Franciscan heritage — of the stigmata of St Francis and the call to conversion. Each point of the five-pointed stars is tinged with red. We embrace the cross of Christ as the symbol of our Christian life — we are continually dying to ourselves to rise to a transformed life in Jesus, the Crucified and Risen One. The earth is set in the wider universe. The colours swirl in circles which remind us that we are one circle of the many that form our Institute. Our emblem can be distinguished embracing the world. It symbolizes the way we embrace the whole Institute — for we are just one circle of a wider Circle. It also symbolises the many ways the Sisters of the Institute, and of our circle, embrace the world through a variety of ministries. Our mission is to be a catalyst of communion in whatever we do. The blue background and Southern Cross remind us also that we are under the patronage of Mary of the Southern Cross. As she stood beneath the Cross on Calvary, so now she stands beneath the Southern Cross as our help and protector.
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