Most amazing gift of all Anne Hunt Christmas is surely the most loved time of the year for billions of people across the world; be they Christian believers or not, it is a time of feasting and a time of gift-giving. In our gift-giving we commemorate the greatest gift of all, an astonishing gift that […]
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The waiting is almost over Michael Gilbert CSsR Almost 60 years ago the world was shaken by the civil rights movements in America. Martin Luther King and others launched a massive direct-action campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. King was arrested for defying a state law that forbad mass public demonstrations. In prison, he penned,
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Loving the unborn child Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer “Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I say rejoice. The Lord is near.” These words introduce the Mass on the third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday (gaudete means “rejoice” in Latin). On this Sunday, we rejoice in knowing that at Christmas God comes near to us in
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News stories in the final weeks centred on the thousands of tourists who were keen to scale the monolith’s mighty heights before the ban took effect. And many did line up in their thousands for one last chance to climb Uluru. Most Australians were reportedly ‘comfortable’ with the decision to prohibit climbing but there were
1 December 2019 And the people responded with gusto. A total of 17,457 submissions were received with 12,758 sent in by individuals. As to be expected, many of the submissions are as contradictory, one to another, as praying for rain to break the drought and praying for fine weather for the school fete on Saturday.
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1 December 2019 The Southern Cross (Adelaide) won Best Newspaper while The Good Oil, an e-letter published by the Good Samaritan Sisters, won the Bishop Kennedy Award for Overall Excellence. The annual awards recognise excellence in Catholic magazines, newspapers and digital publications across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. The conference and awards ceremony were held
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1 December 2019 On Christmas Eve in 1965 my first child was born. Seventeen hours prior and showing early signs of labour, I was admitted to St Margaret’s Hospital, Darlinghurst in Sydney. After my admission, labour had progressed very slowly: the baby seemed to have settled down and nothing much was happening. The nurses were
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1 December 2019 An avid gardener, she took great pride in her rosarium, but being unable to inhale their perfumed scent, got her down. “You take something like your sense of smell for granted,” Mrs Jarrett, 72, said. “You don’t realise how precious something is until it’s gone.” Parkinson’s disease is a combination of movement
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1 December 2019 Their experience is called a “blue” Christmas, something described by the Urban Dictionary as such: “It means to have a sad Christmas perhaps because you are away from family or alone, or even filled with thoughts of a happier time that brings tears to your eye. Blue is a symbolic color for
1 December 2019 In August I was one of those people, visiting at dawn as part of a coach tour from Adelaide to Darwin. Uluru was always going to be the centrepiece of my journey; everything else was accessorising, at least in my pre-trip mind. However, critical to this experience, for me, was not the
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