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The book, Nurturing Today’s Children, provides thoughtful guidance about each stage of raising children and encouraging their growth — especially in spirit and faith. Jesus often used analogies about planting and rich yields in his parables. Following Jesus’ example and using the imagery of a garden, this book shows us that raising children requires special care if the harvest is to be fruitful.

St Paul says,” be kind to one another, tender-hearted and forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.” (Ephesians 4:32). Yet in the context of ordinary communication, talk of mercy is a foreign language.

In a world where mass media is all supreme, spiteful gossip, vindictiveness and revenge all too often seem to set the tone. In this Majellan article, we look at the Christian concept of mercy.

Pope Francis, in the Joy of Love, shows how families can help transform the world. He says:

“The family lives its spirituality by being both a domestic church and a vital cell for transforming the world.”

But it is hard to see how families, in all their messiness and struggles, can possibly be a domestic church, never mind a vital cell for transforming the world. For how can families possibly transform the world when the children can’t even tidy up after themselves?

No doubt, our great thinkers considered it was all somehow contained in what was said in their ideas about `being’, ‘spirit’, `truth’, `love’, `beauty’, `body and soul’, `politics’, and so forth. The fact that every human being was born of a man and a woman, had brothers and sisters, and grew to feel a rather

The all new free Majellan Media Family App is here.

Majellan Media helps families be the best they can be. The new App focuses on Family and celebrates what makes families so unique.

The App brings together ALL Majellan Media content in one convenient place. It is full of ‘new release’ podcasts from our Figuring out Families series, brand new stories and news, and the amazing articles from The Majellan magazine filled with great advice and spiritual nourishment to help families thrive.

The Anzac Spirit has continued to develop since the images long past of young men scaling the steep cliffs of Gallipoli or trudging along the harsh Kokoda Track. Courage, mateship, endurance, and sacrifice were hallmark qualities that emerged from those desperate times. The Anzac spirit lives on in today’s service people, and so do the challenges. Veterans have a higher rate of suicide than the average Australian, and a royal commission has now been established to better understand how we can prevent further tragedy.