Madonna - November December 2003

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2003

From the Editor
‘Goodbye, Geoffrey, for now’. A tribute to one of Madonna’s occasional editors, Fr Geoffrey James SJ, from the new editor, Fr Christopher Gleeson SJ.

Roadside rest
Night Prayer. A new baby can mean lot of watching in the dead of middle of the night — and what better time to pray?

‘They shall safely graze’
Gina Basile finds that ‘grazing’ through the day is a way to create a place for prayer in a busy life.

Swimming with All.
A reflection on the colours of our lives.

Mary, woman of the Eucharist — Teresa Pirola.
When Mary bore the Word-made-flesh, she became the first ‘tabernacle’ in history. Teresa Pirola explores the many ways in which she is a woman of the Eucharist.

An insidious cycle of violence.
The death penalty and non-violence.

A candle in the darkness.
Rosemary Beavis sees in a candle flame an image of our reliance on God.

YOUR DAILY PRAYER

The Power of Story — Elizabeth Pike
Valiant women.
A trip to the far north-west is an opportunity to meet some of the valiant women of the local Indigenous communities.

Edmund Campion’s Australian Catholics
Nothing is wasted … — Otto Raible.
This bishop founded the first indigenous religious congregation. While it did not last, its members became the backbone of Catholic life in the Kimberleys.

Blessings in disguise — Peter Steele SJ.
Mary’s ‘Magnificat’ is her hymn of thanks for blessings that were — and are — to be found in the most unexpected places .

‘I will be in charge …’.
The struggle to overcome illness and pain has sometimes seemed too great, but this writer finds strength to overcome it through putting it into words.

Full of Surprises:
The Bible without Blinkers — Anthony F Campbell SJ
Elisha — 2 Kings 2 The propher Elisha seemed too much of a nuisance to be the one to inherit the cloak of thegreat Elijah—but his perseverance paid off.

Around and about.
News of people and events of interest.

From our readers …
Readers letters.