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In the Christ event - the encounter at the centre of history - the divine and the human intersect. Followers of Jesus cannot live as though faith and daily life are separate. Spirituality is about encountering the sacred in our world and responding. This month's Mission & Spirituality News is full of intersections and encounters.
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Visit of Lebanese Saints' Relics
Maronite Catholics across Australia are preparing for their biggest celebration of this era with the arrival this month of the relics of their three Lebanese Maronite Saints. Click here to learn more about the Maronite Church and the saints.
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Women's Stories
"And the Dance goes on", an anthology of Australian Catholic women's stories commissioned by Commission for Australian Catholic Women, will be launched on 14 October 2005, 6.00pm for 6.30pm at the School House, Mary Mackillop Place, 80 William Street, North Sydney. Local launches in a number of Dioceses around Australia will follow.
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Holiday Fun At Mary Mackillop Place Museum
These two hour holiday sessions for children aged from 5 to 12 years are fully supervised and include morning tea.
When: Tuesday 4, Thursday 6 & Friday 7 October, 10.00am - Midday.
Where: Mary Mackillop Place, 7 Mount Street, North Sydney
Cost: $7.00 per two hour session, includes morning tea. For children 5-12 years.
Fully supervised. Parents welcome.
Booking Essential: call Christine Richards on (02) 8912 4883 or
Email: christine.richards@sosj.org.au
* Do art & craft * Discover the treasures in Mary's traveling trunk! * Explore the Museum, the Chapel & Alma Cottage - Mary's home
* Hear all about Australia's first saint.
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Common Good Address on Employment Relations
John Ryan, Executive Officer of the Australian Catholic Commission for Employment Relations, will deliver the fourth annual Common Wealth for the Common Good Address on the topic: The Common Good and Industrial Relations Reform: The challenge of distributing wealth fairly in Australia. Click here for the ACCER Briefing Paper on Government Proposals to reform Workplace Relations in Australia.
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Seasons for Growth
Change, loss and grief affect everyone. They can give us a feeling of being weighed down, stop us from moving forward and drain our life. We can do something to deal with our grief. Seasons for Growth is a program dealing with loss and grief in its many forms. Click here for more about Seasons for Growth Click here for information about an adult Seasons of Growth program soon to take place in Waitara, NSW.
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Teachers Pass On Faith
In a report by National Church Life Survey, researchers found almost one in three (30.6%) Catholics credited their religious education teacher or school chaplain with being among the "most significant people to show what faith was about". That compares with only one in 13 (7.7%) Protestants making the same statement.
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Jesus, Light for the World
Two new resources are available to help people to reflect and act on the message of this year's Social Justice Sunday Statement, Jesus, Light for the World. A PowerPoint show prepared by the Broken Bay Institute can now be downloaded from the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council's website. Click here for a copy. Action ideas on waste and the culture of busyness - two issues raised in the Statement - are provided in this issue of the Edmund Rice Centre's Just News.
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40 Years of Interfaith Dialogue
This event will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's Declaration "Nostra Aetate" on the relation of the Catholic Church to non-Christian religions and will include the launch of Cardinal Cassidy's new book Rediscovering Vatican II - Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue. Click here for the text of Nostra Aetate.
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A Place of Intersection
David Ranson* notes that most Australians "live along a thin band of coastline, with the vastness of the outback behind us and the desert of ocean stretching out before us". He suggests that "this geographical situation is not without considerable spiritual implication." In this speech at the launch of the website Terra Spiritus, Ranson explores what it means to live in a place of intersection, and how the online environment provides a new meeting place.
* David Ranson lectures in Christian Spirituality and Pastoral Theology at the Catholic Institute of Sydney and is the Chair of the Broken Bay Institute Council.
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