March 2007 
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  Editorial
The discipline of fasting during Lent can help us to appreciate more deeply how our food sustains us physically and connects us with one another and the whole of creation.
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  What’s On
Benedictine Conversations
Rosebank College, in Five Dock, NSW, is again hosting its annual series of lectures on Benedictine spirituality. The theme to be addressed by a range of speakers is ‘listening with the ear of the heart’.
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Brisbane Training for WYD
Brisbane Archdiocese is running a training day to help parishes to plan their participation in World Youth Day. Themes will include hosting overseas guests on their way to Sydney, the pilgrimage to Sydney, and becoming an advocate for World Youth Day.
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The Family in History & Culture
The Ovulation Method Research and Reference Centre of Australia will hold a conference in Lower Plenty, Victoria, exploring the family in history and culture. The keynote address is on The Billings Ovulation Method and other topics include the family in poetry, in film, and in different cultures.
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  Mission & Ministry
Days in the Dioceses
A number of Dioceses around Australia and New Zealand will be hosting events in the days leading up to the World Youth Day. For the latest information on these Days in the Dioceses keep an eye on www.wyd2008.org/index.php/en/days_in_the_dioceses
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WYD Fundraising
To access a range of official World Youth Day merchandise, which you can sell as part of your fundraising for the event, fill out an application form which you will find at www.wyd2008.org/fundraising#church_fundraising
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Project Compassion Resources for Lent
Caritas Australia’s website hosts a range of resources from an online movie to PowerPoint presentations and transparencies for overhead projectors to help schools and parishes to draw attention to this year’s Project Compassion theme, Fair Play Today.
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Celebrate Unity & Diversity
Adelaide Archdiocese’s Multicultural Pastoral Service has produced a program for Lent in English, Italian and Vietnamese. It is intended to assist communities to reflect on their cultural diversity, unity in faith, and to build stronger relationships between all people. They are available online at
www.adelaide.catholic.org.au/sites/MulticulturalPastoralService/lent-2007-resources
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  Feature

Food for Thought
Columban Ecologist, Fr Charles Rue, has co-produced a DVD which draws on interviews with scientists, farmers and campaigners overseas and in Australia concerning genetically modified food.

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  Reflection

If You Can’t Stand the Heat …
Do you ever pray in the kitchen? In this Australian Catholics Explorations piece Andy Hamilton* gets hot and bothered, and shares his experiences of prayer in the kitchen.

* Andy Hamilton SJ is a consulting editor at Eureka Street, and teaches at the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne.

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