Completing all my schooling in a small country town many years ago, I still have fond memories of my Year 6 teacher, Mr Moore. He was responsible for nurturing my love of writing and encouraging me to strive to achieve my best on the sporting field. It would be fair to say his positive influence set me on my path in life.
On Sunday September 1 families around Australia celebrated Father’s Day.
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It will be the end of an era in May next year when Majellan House in Brighton passes from the Redemptorist community to its new owner.
For many young people it may seem that the upsurge of artificial intelligence (AI) has been an overnight sensation. In recent years we’ve seen the rise of AI-powered Chatbot and digital operating systems such as Alexa and Siri. They can write essays, create images, and allow people to interact with digital devices as if they were communicating with a real person.
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The Majellan magazine has reached its seventy-five year milestone. The magazine’s origins can be traced back to Ballarat in the mid-1940s and the newsletter, the League of St Gerard Majella.
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The tragic death of a seventeen-year-old at a West Australian detention centre last week has again highlighted the scourge of youth suicide in our community.
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It’s difficult not to make distinctions. Invariably, we favour some people over others. For example: we choose our friends, we choose a person to be our husband or wife, we choose ‘sides’ in disputes, we choose to avoid some people, and we choose to forgive some people and condemn others.
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Jokes A Catholic doctor, known for his successful treatment of the infirmed, had a waiting room full of people one Monday morning. One of the patients, a little old woman, turned up all bent over. She shuffled into the waiting room leaning on a cane. When her turn came, she hobbled into the doctor’s office,
“for believers in Jesus Christ, the Word of God who became man for our sake, “the life of the spirit is not dissociated from the body or from nature or from worldly realities, but lived in and with them, in communion with all that surrounds us” (Laudato Si’, 216). The ecological crisis thus summons us to a profound spiritual conversion: Christians are called to “an ecological conversion whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them” (ibid., 217). For “living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience” (ibid.).
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Having observed that Jesus’ disciples were not complying with the religious purification laws of the time which required one to wash one’s hands thoroughly before eating, the Pharisees challenged Jesus once again.
What is in our hearts matter-Gospel Reflection Read More »
