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Every day in Australia, on average, nine people take their own lives. Globally, an estimated one million people per year die by suicide or about one person in 10,000.

Saint Gertrude the Great, a 13th-century German Benedictine nun, mystic, and theologian, holds a special place in the history of Christian spirituality. Born on January 6, 1256, in Eisleben, now modern-day Germany, Gertrude was one of the most influential figures of medieval mysticism.

The numbers are heartbreaking; the loss of life and sadness of those left behind almost too much to bear. As the statistics reveal, every day nine people in Australia take their own life, seven of whom are male. That amounts to more than 3200 deaths a year – well over double the number of people killed on our roads in 2024.

Whether you are downsizing, upsizing, shifting to a different country, or to accommodation that offers greater assistance in your day to day living, packing up and moving house can cause significant stress, regardless of your age or time in life, as Lindy McNamara writes.

Unlike many other countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom where Father’s Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June, Australia and New Zealand celebrate their dads on the first Sunday of September.

Father’s Day was celebrated on Sunday September 7. The following is a tribute reflection to all fathers, past and present.

As we are more than halfway through the Jubilee Year – which has the theme Pilgrimage of Hope – it is pleasing that hundreds of thousands of Catholics have already made the pilgrimage to Rome.

When it was time to pack up sixty years’ worth of memorabilia at Majellan House earlier this year, several items were treated with extra care, amongst them a carving of Saint Gerard Majella.