Dear Friends,
By Virginia Ryan

Mary is the focus of our May edition of Mission and Spirituality News.

A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Mary in the Middle Ages
By Dr Carmel Davis

The Middle Ages was an age of symbols and signs; a time in which the world and all its "things" - animate and inanimate - were understood as being the microcosm of God's great macrocosm of all creation.

Mapping our devotion to Mary
By Gerard Moore

Marian devotion runs deep in Catholic and Orthodox prayer and devotion, and has a surprising reception in many of the churches of the reformation. 

Light of Torah
By Teresa Pirola

"If you follow my statutes... (Lev. 26:3). Most bibles translate the verb as 'follow.' How­ever the Hebrew verb is 'walk.' Is 'walking' in the Torah's commandments a more active, alert, responsive set of choices than 'following'?"

Bold humility
By Fr Noel Connolly

Not so long ago the most typical images of mission came from the military.

Senior Leader's Retreat
By Dr Margaret Ghosn MSHF

Theme: The call to be great

Resource Kit for the Study of Saint Paul: Session Four
By Brendan Byrne sj

This 'kit' is provided as a follow-up to the interactive e-conference on Paul sponsored by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference to mark the close of the Year of Paul on 30 June, 2009.

Support Priests, Especially in Moments of Difficulty

VATICAN CITY, 5 MAY 2010 (VIS) - In today's general audience, which was celebrated in St. Peter's Square, the Pope focused his remarks on the priest's mission to sanctify humankind.

Pentecost Sunday 23rd May 2010

Time: 12pm-5pm
Where: Our Lady queen of Peace Catholic Church - 198 Old Peospect Highway Greystanes

What is our Christian Mission together today?
Keynote speakers: Metropolitan Archbishop Paul Saliba, Antiochian Orthodox Church; Commissioner Linda Bond,
The Salvation Army Eastern Territory

Fontana di Trevi Function Centre, 53 Raymond Street, Bankstown
Wednesday, 19 May, 2010, 7.00 for 7.30pm

Looking Beyond Division

A Five-day Winter School
introducing the study of Ecumenism

Interested in Teaching or Nursing in the Catholic Sector?

Flexible delivery of programs - online, distance or face-to-face mode

eConferences DVD Order Form

ACBC In Partnership with BBI Present  "St Paul & St Luke" National eConferences

The Challenge of Catholicity: Becoming a 'catholic' Catholic Church
By Rev Dr Richard Lennan

Tuesday July 6th 7.30pm BBI Pennant Hills
Thursday July 8th at 7.30pm Newcastle

New World: Dominican Sisters in Eastern Australia
Review by Gerard Moore

This book in turn informs, delights and raises admiration in the reader.