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MARCH APRIL 2004

Soul Matters
Releasing the angel. Michelangelo explained to an observer that to him the process of sculpting was ‘releasing the angel imprisoned in this block of marble’. At this time of year, we remember Jesus breaking the chains of death and releasing his spirit to new life — as he does for us.

Roadside rest
Turning up. A country Confirmation is an occasion for reflecting on the great work achieved by the catechists working in the government schools.

‘This is not about you’—thoughts for Good Friday.
Robin Koning shows us how the Lent/Easter cycle is both about us and yet very much about Jesus.

On pilgrimage.
Judi Taylor has found that life’s path has many twists and turns. Her search has brought her full circle to the faith of her childhood.

Sharing the Spirit: Interview — Rosie Hoban
Beyond our own backyard. Jack de Groot, national director of Caritas Australia, helps focus people’s attention, and their generosity, towards the many troubled areas beyond these shores, all the while building an awareness of these places and people in the minds of local Australians.

Family Matters — Teresa Pirola
Re-thinking Easter lunch. Ten creative ideas from Teresa Pirola to help make Easter a more spiritual event for the family.

YOUR DAILY PRAYER

The Power of Story — Elizabeth Pike
Sacred sites — Mutawintji Dreaming Tracks. Between Broken Hill and White Cliffs lies a glorious site of sandstone ridges and gorges, an important place of intersection for Dreaming Tracks.

Edmund Campion’s Australian Catholics
Service through the word — Brian Doyle. Brian Doyle sacrificed a university place to help support his family and began work as a librarian. His love of words and ideas led him to the editor’s role at two of our leading Catholic newspapers.

The gospel according to Mel.
Film expert Peter Malone explores some of the issues in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of Christ.

Bread for the Journey — Peter Steele SJ
‘If I am the one, let these others go.’ It is for us that Jesus died: Easter reminds us how he is truly the ‘man for others’, and how he has given his life to care for us all.

Full of Surprises: The Bible without Blinkers
Anthony F Campbell SJ
Response to the Book — 2 Kings 22 The finding of a Book of the Law in the temple leads us today to a reflection on how event and text are different, and how it is the text that is to be interpreted, not the event.

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

In review.
Recent books.