To me, Redfern is a place where the Church is truly alive.
As you walk in, there is a feeling of the church belonging to all the people who go there; and as you attend the Eucharist, there is a feeling of involvement in the local church and in all the major spiritual and justice issues of the day in the wider Church and world.
This is a place where the people claim the liturgy, and where aboriginal people are recognised as the real owners of the land; where women, over the years, (I began attending Redfern in 1981) have become more and more included in the liturgy and the language of the liturgy; where children are accepted as themselves and where anyone can speak to an issue which they feel is relevant to the congregation.