Their desperate attempts to find refuge are often not final solutions but new beginnings. A long journey into the unknown is marked by fear, danger and daunting obstacles. Mid-2020 data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated that worldwide numbers of forcibly displaced people surpassed 80 million. According to their statistics, 26.3 […]
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The war on drugs hasn’t worked and never will. Every now and then police announce a large seizure of drugs and parade the bags of methamphetamine, cocaine or heroin before a large media contingent. As a marketing exercise it looks good on camera but in reality it achieves little.
Former Majellan editor Max Barrett CSsR passed away in Sydney on August 10. He was 95.
Vale Max Barrett CSsR Read More »
There are two miracle-stories that occur only in Mark’s gospel: the healing of the blind man at Bethsaida, and today’s story of the healing of the deaf-mute. Both stories reveal to us the truly human face of Jesus who responds with compassion to people’s infirmities. But they also reveal the healing powers of the promised Messiah who will ‘open the eyes of the blind’ and ‘unseal the ears of the deaf’ (Isaiah).
Jesus says to us: hear and speak Read More »
On Sunday September 5 we celebrate our dads. In what has been another topsy turvy year because of COVID-19, any excuse for a family get together is a good excuse. Majellan asked two of its regular contributors, Melanie Dooner and Kate Moriarty, to share their feelings about fathers.
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When I was a mother, I was often busy and frustrated. I would often be yelling at my children not to do something. That’s not the way you should do things.
Living and speaking love Read More »
With tenderness and affection Pope Francis spells out the purpose of Chapter Three of Amoris Laetitia: “I now wish to turn my gaze to the living Christ, who is at the heart of so many love stories, and to invoke the fire of the Spirit upon all the world’s families.” Christ at the ‘heart of so many love stories’! The Holy Spirit, fire of love!
Love for all families Read More »
Have you ever experienced something that becomes more absorbing the more you spend time with it? Maybe it’s a piece of music, a novel, a spot in the park. You could watch that movie a million times. The bible is similar. It was written to be pondered; it is ‘meditation literature’.
Pondering God’s purpose Read More »
For these last five weeks we have listened to gospel readings from John Chapter 60, readings about bread and, most importantly of all, the Bread of Life. Jesus teaches “I have come to give you the Bread of Life.”
Who will stay and who will go? Read More »
Mary set out quickly from Nazareth to a town in the hill country of Judah, to visit her older cousin, Elizabeth, who was pregnant with the child we know as John the Baptist. Mary is carrying her own child, Jesus. At the presence of Jesus and his mother, the child in Elizabeth’s womb leaps for joy!
Mary’s song is our song Read More »