Snapshots of family life
Michael Walter. 10 March 2017
‘You are privileged.’ My friend smacks me in the face with this statement. I had been extolling the virtues of travel and sagely explaining that all young people should take a year to see the world. My ever-blunt friend (quite rightly) reminded me that this isn’t a possibility for many people. They may have medical expenses for themselves or their family, debt, or they may have to support their younger sibling’s education. To travel is a luxury
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Faith & Spirituality in Review
Staff. 10 March 2017
Will ye go, Lassie go: Celebrating the life of Sr Bridget Harley D.C., ed Sr Maeve O’Brien, D.C., Blue Mountain Education and Research Trust, ISBN 978 0 9941555 04.
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A woman in love
Michael McGirr. 10 March 2017
Bernini’s The Ecstasy of St Teresa depicts a saint who is alive to the present moment, able to let God take her breath away
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Listening to the voice of the heart
Beth Doherty. 10 March 2017
Listening to stories about how others have found their vocation can help us discover our own calling, says Beth Dohert
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A balancing act
Chris Gleeson SJ. 10 March 2017
I pen this editorial on a superb day at Sevenhill where, as one retreatant has quipped, the Australian Jesuits’ DNA resides. As so often happens, I am writing with the light of some inspiration I have just received on the Combined Jesuit School Councils’ Retreat
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Our Community of Prayer - December, January, February
Staff. 10 March 2017
The Pope's prayer intentions, calendar of saints and reflections on the liturgical readings for each day of the month. Click here to visit the website
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Don't judge
Susie Hii. 10 March 2017
We are advised when doing the awareness Examen, coined by St Ignatius of Loyola, to practise being non-judgmental. Instead of judging events as good and bad, some people categorise them as ‘highlights’ and ‘lowlights’.
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The healing touch
Peta Edmonds. 10 March 2017
Walking into St Ignatius Church today, I feel God. I breathe in and smell the polished wood. It makes me think of an ark that has never sailed
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Sewing threads together
Beth Doherty. 10 March 2017
Genevieve is more of a planner than I
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Education: Giving Wings To the Soul
Chris Gleeson SJ. 10 March 2017
In early July this year, I listened to some moving stories about education.
We were hosting some guests from Jesuit Commons: Higher Education at the Margins – a consortium of Jesuit universities and colleges established in 2006 – which now offers higher education to camp-based refugees in ten different sites around the worl
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The Greatest Gift of All
Staff. 10 March 2017
This time of the year can often seem to revolve around gifts, and by gifts I mean presents, gloriously wrapped in boxes with expensive cards and ribbon. Yet the paradox is that as Christians, we celebrate the birth of one who was laid in a manger, whose parents had to travel by donkey and had no place to stay once they arrived in Bethlehem.
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