1 September 2020 Let us calmly maintain our Christian balance, carefully avoiding over optimistic expressions of immanent success or dire predictions of worse to come. How ironic it is, that in an age of unprecedented access to information, during a crisis, thanks to social media, most of what you get is misinformation, hysteria and disinformation. […]
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Their teachers would be truly amazed at how many places they took our children to if they were privy to the version of events our children tell us. It makes for great dinner time entertainment. But as we continue to journey through life experiences it is the sharing of our real-life stories that can truly
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1 September 2020 Known for his love of animals, he founded the men’s Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Pope Gregory IX canonised Francis on July 16, 1228. Along with Saint Catherine of Siena, he was designated patron saint of Italy. He later became associated with patronage of
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1 September 2020 Mother Hilda Scott osb writes, “…no matter what your particular ‘infertility’ in life is, you will find the whispering of God in your own heart meeting your own pain.” Debra recalls, “One bishop told me: ‘There are many forms of barrenness or sterility in our lives … physical, psychological, spiritual, emotional. The
1 September 2020 Dressed in what appears to be coarse clothing that was worn by peasant farmers of the era, he holds a long spade at his left-hand side and his gaze is directed at the ground. The effigy was gifted to the hospital by the daughter of Professor Basil Morson, a famous pathologist. Fiacre
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1 September 2020 But this time there was an attached Word document. Something that she’d been promising to send me for years. It contained her childhood memories. My eyes ran rapidly over the document, skimming the pages describing what life was like in Finland following the end of World War Two. Both my grandfathers had
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1 September 2020 Chapman’s research led him to Love Languages which has become very popular in recent years. He discovered that what makes one person feel loved by their partner and/or their children, isn’t necessarily the same thing that makes them feel loved. Love Languages fall within these five themes. Words of Affirmation; Physical Touch;
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1 September 2020 Like many Australians, I love to swim and I have my own ‘memory pools’. However, swimming isn’t my thing. When you encounter someone who has identified their ‘thing’ and embraced it, their enthusiasm can be very engaging. At some stages of life, one’s ‘thing’ is obvious. For a new parent, an employee
1 September 2020 We are not unlike those blind people when we speak of sin. Older folks tend to say sin means to perform individual bad acts – often of a sexual kind. Younger ones tend to say it means hurting other people – like cyber bullying or damaging the environment. Sin is all of
1 September 2020 Have you heard the one about? It’s a five-minute walk from my house to the pub but 35 minutes back. The difference is staggering. * * * Why did the chicken cross the road? Einstein: Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken? Freud:
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