Easter Sunday is the day of surprises: kids hunt for eggs the adults have hidden around the garden. They open them to find jelly beans or chocolates inside. Families and friends give gifts to one another on a scale almost the equal of Christmas.
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Sunday marks the start of Passion Week. The most important week in the Christian calendar when Jesus is hailed a hero on Palm Sunday by his followers only to be put to death five days later.
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Easter is the brightest, most majestic holiday in Ukraine, and it is celebrated with a variety of traditions. Some of them were inherited from their ancestors, keeping peculiar rituals and activities intact.
The word for ‘Easter’ in Ukrainian is Velykden’, which translates to ‘Great Day’, and it is one of the biggest holidays in the country. Following the Orthodox faith and calendar it is celebrated the week after the Roman Catholic Easter.
People lent and fast with strict devotion, as the country is passionate about adhering to the faith.
In the past everyone awaited Easter day, as a festive mood would bloom throughout the country and families come together to celebrate with food. Not this year! This Easter is a very different story. Being ravaged by a savage, merciless attack to which we are now also hearing about atrocities against civilians. The Ukrainian people are strong in faith and resolve. We are seeing how much so as they defend their freedom, country and way of life.
Join us in sending messages of hope and support at Easter and click here to send your message to the people of Ukraine in solidarity with Our Lady of Perpetual Help and Jesus the Redeemer.
Research shows that financial hardship is the biggest cause of family breakdown. Many families have gone backwards during the pandemic and people feel embarrassed if they have money issues and this could happen to anyone and people should not feel shame but seek help. Serina talks about what to do if you have financial issue,
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Research shows that financial hardship is the biggest cause of family breakdown. Many families have gone backwards during the pandemic and people feel embarrassed if they have money issues and this could happen to anyone and people should not feel shame but seek help. Serina talks about what to do if you have financial issue,
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The war in Ukraine continues. Read our 3 articles about the Morality of War in the 21st Century.
#PrayForUkraine
As Christians each of us is called to be a person of prayer and each of us has to discover the kind of prayer —or rather the kind of setting for prayer – that suits us best. What matters is that we pray. The methods we adopt are of secondary importance and depend to a great extent on knowledge of ourselves, of our strengths and weaknesses.
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Our special guest on The Mission Podcast is the CEO of Caritas Australia, Kirsty Robertson. Kirsty featured on our Figuring out Families Podcasts just over 2 years ago. Caritas Australia is the Catholic Church’s international aid and development agency and is part of one of the largest humanitarian networks in the world.
Kirsty speaks about Project Compassion during Lent which is one of Caritas’ main fundraising drives for the year. She also talks about Caritas’ humanitarian role to help the people in Ukraine and the dreadful toll the war is having on families.
Despite two years of COVID-19, Kirsty says Australians are still donating generously.
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The displacement of thousands of Ukrainians is distressing. Families have fled their homes in terror as Russian bombs reign down and the red tanks roll in.
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Our new podcast series with Professor Daryl Higgins, director of Australian Catholic University’s Institute of Child Protection Studies is timely.
In this first Figuring out Families podcast with Prof Higgins, he says parents need quicker and more improved access to evidence-based support programs to address these rising mental health problems. And he believes primary and secondary schools are well equipped to help deliver the programs that will best meet the needs of young Australians.
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