Daniel Delany and Rainbow Serpent Meditation
We invite you, our community members, to enjoy the experience of connecting with storytellers through art and meditation, by listening and watching the Daniel Delany Meditation.
'For someone who can’t sit still for very long, I thoroughly enjoyed this meditation whilst listening to soothing and relaxing music. Having been a Delany staff member for four years now I found the insight fantastic whilst drifting off into my thoughts! For someone who does not meditate often – I highly recommend starting here as you will be surprised.'
Brock Kennedy
Teacher at St Joseph’s College and Delany House Member
Direct link to meditation https://youtu.be/98ZPKBZtb5c
The Living Justice Portrait Project has proven to be just that! A project that is alive and living, and always evolving.
The portrait project was inspired by the Kildare Ministries charter for Living Peace - Living Justice.
The story of the project is kept alive through this documentary that draws on interviews and footage of the artists working alongside each other while simultaneously developing deep spiritual and artistic respect.
St Joseph’s College students and staff have used the portraits as a way of engaging with the story of our founders, Saint Brigid, Daniel Delany, and Nano Nagle.
Background:
The Daniel Delany / Rainbow Serpent meditation is an acknowledgment that nothing else can exist without creation.
The Daniel Delany artwork was created in 2021 by artist, Alisha Ryan in consultation with Aboriginal artist Troy Firebrace. The two artists came together to listen to each other’s stories and create artworks that celebrate and intertwine our Celtic and Aboriginal Ancestry.
The creation of the Living Justice Portraits was a deeply sincere action of reconciliation, acknowledging and thanking the Aboriginal people, their stories, dreaming, and culture.
For without this, nothing else exists.
The Rainbow Serpent dreaming in Aboriginal culture represents one of the great and powerful forces of nature and spirit. The Rainbow Serpent is the great life-giver, and protector of land, its people and water, which is his spiritual home and the source of all life.
In the artwork, Goorialla, the Rainbow Serpent’s aura surrounds the founder of St Joseph’s College, Daniel Delany, giving him the strength to carry out God’s work through education for all, during a time of great poverty and suffering.
Goorialla encases the creation story of the Brigidines and education here in Echuca.
The meditation story of Daniel Delany is read by Alisha Ryan and the Rainbow Serpent dreaming story is read by 2021 student, Jak Powell.
St Joseph's College students Jemma-Rose Davey & Joshua Walsh, mentored by Mal Dunstan, sound engineered the meditation with Ethan O’Brien-Leitao editing images and sound together.
Allison O’Brien
Portrait Project Member