With the celebration of the Festival of Ss Peter and Paul on Monday 29 June 2009, the Year of St Paul comes to a close. But, in the Church in Melbourne at least, we will not be saying “Goodbye” to St Paul. Indeed, we have only just been introduced!
The first snow in the Kinglake and surrounding areas came on the second Thursday in June. There had been hints of serious fogs as early as the end of May. It looks like it’s going to be long, cold winter.
“You have journeyed and continue to journey like a canoe across the oceans and the waters,” Sr Clare Condon, congregational leader of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, said to Sr Ameria Etuare during the ritual marking her perpetual profession in Kiribati on 23 May 2009.
Leaders from the Catholic aged-care sector in Victoria met on 30 April 2009 to share experiences and discuss common issues faced in providing for the pastoral care of residents in Catholic residential aged-care facilities. As providers of aged-care services, their focus was on how to best care for the spiritual needs of residents.
Australian Jesuit Fr Nguyen Duc Thu of Richmond has received a Queen’s Birthday Honour to acknowledge his long service to Australia’s Vietnamese community.
Abortion rights advocates at the United Nations are adopting a new approach – one that avoids mention of abortion, promotes a right to maternal health, and seeks to enforce ‘reproductive rights’ among UN member states.
From the 10 - 13 June the Dominican friars held the 2009 Eucharistic Festival at St Dominic’s Priory and Church, Camberwell. Looking towards the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, the festival brought parishioners and visitors together to St Dominic’s and fine speakers from Melbourne’s theological institutes and further afield.
Melbourne priest Fr Joe Ruys has been serving with the Columbans in the Los Santos Arcángeles parish on the outskirts of Lima, Peru for three years as part of Melbourne Overseas Missions. Founded by Cardinal Knox in 1969 as an outreach of the Archdiocese of Melbourne, the Mission has provided funding and support to a number of developing countries.
UPCOMING SOCIAL ENCYCLICAL WILL NOT PAN MARKET ECONOMY
Pope Benedict XVI has revealed that his upcoming encyclical Veritas in Caritate, expected on 29 June, will be dedicated to “the extensive issue of the economy and labour”.
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13th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B Mark 5:21-43
In Saint Mark’s Gospel the Parable chapter is followed by a series of what we now call miracles, but are called in the first three Gospels ‘acts of power’ or ‘wonders’ and in St John’s Gospel ‘signs’.
This perspective completes the three observations I promised to provide for you towards the close of the Year of St Paul. However, in case I need to remind you, the two that I previously presented were about Paul’s abiding interest in Jesus and his missionary spirit.
In the days and weeks after Victoria’s devastating bushfires, Mazenod FOOLS (Focused Only on Love and Service), the community service program of Mazenod College, Mulgrave, like many others, looked for ways to be involved.
Catholic school principals have welcomed the Federal Government’s capital works stimulus package aimed at reviving the Victorian economy. Director of Catholic Education Stephen Elder said the enthusiasm for the primary school building program was unprecedented.
On 9 November 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte established the ‘Consulate’ in France, in effect ending the French Revolution, which was a victory for him, and a few short years away from his reign as dictator.
Once when I was workingwith an adult faith education group, I gave each person a handout in which I had written ‘Vat II’ in several places to save space. After a short time a person asked: “What’s Vat II, a brand of scotch or something?”
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Sunday, 28 June 2009
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POPE BENEDICT XVI RESPONDS TO IRISH REPORT WITH DISTRESS
Pope Benedict XVI is calling for a “deep examination” of the life of the Church in Ireland, according to the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, who, together with Cardinal Sean Brady, Archbishop of Armagh, met the Pope on 5 June regarding last month’s report of the widespread abuse of children in Ireland’s Catholic schools.
The rejection of Jesus at Nazareth concludes the Galilean Ministry in St Mark’s Gospel. It also raises the question of who Jesus truly is, a question that St Mark implies is only answered in Christ’s Passion, Death and Resurrection.
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