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Soul Matters
Making connections. Like the spider’s web, our lives are woven together with those of all we come to meet. The connections continue to be remade in most surprising and rewarding ways.

Roadside rest
Let’s see what develops. Modern technology,while efficient, can dull the experience. And not to introduce our children to the Christian life can be to dull theirs as well.

We are all guests of life.
Teacher and philosopher George Steiner reflects on our privileged role as both guests and hosts of life.

Midlife Musings.
Moving into mid-life prompts a reappraisal of much of his behaviour and attitudes, James Depiazzi finds.

Sharing the Spirit: Interview — Rosie Hoban
‘I knew I was in the right place’. Sr Margaret Tisch has spent a long life as a missioner. She reflects on how she went out ‘burning to convert the pagans’, and found she was instead learning much from the spirituality of the people she was among.

Family Matters — Teresa Pirola
Of life, love and laughter. All families have tribal stories, stories in which everyone shares in the laughter, stories that celebrate their togetherness.

YOUR DAILY PRAYER — MAY & JUNE.
A prayerful reflection on the scripture readings for every day of the month.

The Power of Story — Elizabeth Pike
Sacred sites — Geriward: The Grampians. The awesome jagged ridges of Geriward — the Grampians — in the south-west area of Victoria, are the ancient home of the great ancestor spirit, Bunjil, source of all creation and today the site of numerous examples of rock art.

A Cloud of Witnesses: Edmund Campion
Writing the Irish in Australia — Patrick O'Farrell. One of Australia's most highly regarded historians revealed to us the importance of our Irish heritage and left us with a definitive portrayal of the Australian Catholic Church.

Praying the Prayer of the Church.
Frances Ridley passes on her enthusiasm for the Liturgy of the Hours.

Bread for the Journey — Peter Steele SJ
The Lord of Autumn Our lives move in cycles, as the seasons do, and as Jesus’ life did. And while there are the mighty lows and highs — passion and resurrection — the largest part of the church’s seasonal year is that of Ordinary Time.

Full of Surprises:
The Bible without Blinkers — Anthony F Campbell SJ
A Headline Chapter — Amos 3. Much of the books of the prophets is made up of collections of one-liners and pointed headlines, and none is more pointed than Amos chapter 3 — 'You only [Israel] I have known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities'.

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

In review.
Recent books.