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| SOME LINKS OF INTEREST |
| NEDLANDS
WEBPAGE: www.holyrosarynedlands.org.au |
| PEDRO
ARRUPE To view a video on Pedro Arrupe click on the link below This documentary takes a look at former Jesuit Father-General, Pedro Arrupe, who had served in Japan in his years of ministry and was in Hiroshima when the atom bomb devastated the city. Produced by Georgetown University, Pedro Arrupe: His Life and Legacy, was uploaded to YouTube by the JesuitChannel in five parts. www.cathnewsusa.com/article.aspx?aeid=20965 |
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OPEN LETTER FROM DR HANS KUNG TO THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF THE WORLD To read the full text of this open letter click here To return to this page you can use the 'Back' button on your browser. |
| HAWTHORN
PARISH BUSINESS BREAKFAST:
A transcript from Bishop Greg O’Kelly’s recent talk at our business breakfast is available at www.jesuitlentenseries.org.au |
| CAMPION IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY CENTRE |
| CAMPION
SPIRITUALITY CENTRE: The Campion Ignatian Spirituality Centre is dedicated to strengthening individuals in a quiet, peaceful environment that encourages reflection and growth in spirituality and supporting the community through its outreach programs. They offer a diversity of retreats founded on Ignatian spirituality, and it is their desire to offer guests a warm welcome and a comfortable, secure place to rest and pray. For further information regarding retreats etc., contact 9854 8110 or visit their website: www.campion.asn.au |
| CAMPION
CENTRE OF IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY: The Centres of Ignatian Spirituality invite you to come and explore the questions that are stirring in your heart. Our Centres offer a diversity of retreats and programs founded on Ignatian Spirituality. Their professionally trained and experienced team can help you to discern, with the Spirit, your way forward. For information regarding the 2011 program telephone 9854 8110 or visit www.campion.asn.au |
| CAMPION
RETREATS:
The Centres of Ignatian Spirituality, sponsored by the Australian Jesuits, offer ways to find and to know God and to learn what He asks of us in our lives. We invite you to put aside a few hours or a few days in this search for God. The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius offer modes to help put our lives in order, to bring us inner harmony, to find God in peace, and to begin to respond to His invitations. For further details regarding available programs contact: 9854 8110 Website: www.campion.asn.au |
| SILENT RETREAT: Are you ready to try a silent directed retreat? Focusing on God’s presence and movement in your life, as revealed in prayer, these retreats offer time for silent prayer and daily individual direction. A directed retreat allows time for a person to meet with a spiritual director daily and reflect on the events and relationships in your life. Various dates. Campion Ignatian Spirituality Centre: phone 9854 8110 for more information. |
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| CARITAS AUSTRALIA |
| OZSPIRIT: Caritas Australia’s free e-magazine. It is available at www.ozspirit.com or through the Caritas Australia web site, www.caritas.org.au where you can subscribe on-line for free. |
| PROJECT COMPASSION:
Additional Project Compassion material can be downloaded from the Caritas Australia website www.caritas.org.au |
| CATHOLIC CHURCH INSURANCES LIMITED |
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Catholic Church Insurance Limited have a new range of personal insurance products. Combined policy discounts, pay by the month at no extra cost and highly competitive rates for all policies, including home & contents, car, caravan & trailer, landlord and personal accident. Call 1300 655 003 or visit www.catholicinsurances.com.au |
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CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FUND |
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Catholic Development Fund Building Our Catholic Community. If you have not taken advantage of an investment in the fund, may we suggest that now is the time to act. Brochures are available in the Church or by ringing the Fund on 9411 4200. |
| COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT |
| A JUST AUSTRALIA: | |
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CALL FOR
VOLUNTEERS:
Ignatian Volunteers Australia seeks people who have a genuine desire to serve the needs of people living in marginalised circumstances in our community, by offering a consistent period of time each week. For more information contact John Jennings 9810 7310 or john.jennings@jesuit.org.au Pamphlets are available at the church doors. |
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CHILDREN IN DETENTION: Urgent call to action - help orphan asylum seeker ChilOut - Children out of immigration http://content.enewslettersonline.com/21240/46124.html |
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FOR MINISTRY: Would you like to learn more about Liturgy, or the nature of Christian Leadership? Courses are offered by the Archbishop’s Office for Evangelisation. These are open to anyone seeking to further develop their ministry knowledge and skills. Contact www.evangelisation.org or 9926 5761. |
| HOMELESS YOUTH:
Help needed urgently for homeless youth. With free training and support you can help homeless youth with assisted accommodation or foster care. Contact Youth for Christ for details on 98773844 or email melbourne@yfc.org.au |
| HOMESTAY
ASSIST: Are you or do you have family members that are learning or wanting to develop a second language? Are you interested in other cultures and want a first-hand experience? Having an international student in your home is a great way to learn about another culture as well as developing a second language. Please contact Homestay Assist, phone 9822 1228 or visit the website www.homestayassist.com.au |
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NEW JESUIT SCHOOL IN REDFERN: A new, tuition-free Jesuit primary school for Aboriginal children is set to open its doors in Sydney in 2011, providing disadvantaged children with a quality, holistic education which responds to the needs of local families and draws from the students' own culture. Named Jarjum - which means 'children' in the Aboriginal Bundjalung language - the school will be sponsored by St Aloysius' on behalf of the Jesuit Province. Government funding, corporate sponsorship and donations are now being sought for a Jarjum Foundation. For more information contact St Aloysius' College on 02 9922 1177. Taken from an article on Province Express. To receive their free bulletin via email visit: www.express.org.au |
| THOUGHTS
ON IMMIGRATION: Here's something worth taking some time to listen This is really worth watching. Interesting thoughts on immigration. We need to find similar simple ways to explain problems and why many popular solutions don’t work! http://numbersusa.org/ |
| FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY GROUPS |
| COMMUNITY OF THE
SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD:
The Community is a public association of the Faithful. It was founded in Italy by Fr Divo Barsotti in 1947. The Comunita’ is a monastic community in the world, desiring to assist all people in truly becoming the sons and daughters of the Church, in order to achieve the universality of the Church’s mission. Meetings are held weekly. Enquiries to Vince Vella 0422 592 205 |
| PADRE
PIO PRAYER GROUP: A prayer group at St Anthony’s Shrine, 182 Power St, Hawthorn meets every Wednesday with a Novena Mass at 7.00 pm There is a Holy Hour 1st Thursday of the month at 7.00 pm. |
| TEAMS FOR
MARRIED COUPLES:
‘Teams’ is a movement which helps married people develop couple spirituality through practices compatible with the busy lives they lead today. A team consists of about five couples who gather monthly in each other’s homes for a simple meal, prayer and discussion. Where possible, the inclusion of a priest or religious is mutually beneficial. Each team is a small Christian community in which the members support each other in living out their Christian values. ‘Teams’ provides the opportunity for couples to find balance in their lives for personal growth, growth as a couple and mutual support among couples. Further Information: Pat & Anne O’Shaughnessy 5967 2829. |
| TERRA SPIRITUS:
The Daughters of St Paul are proud to announce the launch of Terra Spiritus! Terra Spiritus is a new Australian Catholic web magazine that provides a rare space for engagement with the Spirit in our lives, inspiring its readers to a renewed and refreshed experience of Christian spirituality. Drawing on specialist writers from across Australia, Terra Spiritus offers a range of original articles on spirituality, reflections on prayer and relationships, mediations on Scripture, and even a virtual online chapel. Come, visit us today at www.terraspiritus.com.au |
| PUBLICATIONS AND ON-LINE MAGAZINES |
| EUREKA
STREET: 'Eureka Street' is the Australian Jesuits' online magazine that analyses politics, culture and society from a Christian humanist perspective. Building on its rich 17-year history of providing new perspectives on what’s happening in our society, Eureka Street is now available FREE each week-day in a daily e-mail format allowing interpretation of current news events while those events are still in the news. Please consider supporting the Australian Jesuits work by signing up to receive the new ‘Eureka Street’. Please log onto www.eurekastreet.com.au and click the ‘subscribe’ tab. |
| OZSPIRIT:
Caritas Australia’s free e-magazine. It is available at www.ozspirit.com or through the Caritas Australia web site, www.caritas.org.au where you can subscribe on-line for free. |
| STATEMENT
OF EUTHANASIA: Archbishop Denis Hart has prepared a statement regarding the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide. Copies of this statement are at the church doors or can be viewed at www.cam.org.au |
| TERRA SPIRITUS:
The Daughters of St Paul are proud to announce the launch of Terra Spiritus! Terra Spiritus is a new Australian Catholic web magazine that provides a rare space for engagement with the Spirit in our lives, inspiring its readers to a renewed and refreshed experience of Christian spirituality. Drawing on specialist writers from across Australia, Terra Spiritus offers a range of original articles on spirituality, reflections on prayer and relationships, mediations on Scripture, and even a virtual online chapel. Come, visit us today at www.terraspiritus.com.au |
| SUPPORT GROUPS |
| CATHOLIC SOLO SUPPORT
GROUP: We offer Support and Friendship to Singles, Widowed, Separated and Divorced, who uphold Christian values. Social and Spiritual Calendars. Telephone: 9379 7613 |
| RACHEL'S VINEYARD:
The confidential retreat is for anyone suffering after abortion. For more information, please call Marcia Riordan, Respect Life Office, 9412 3373. You can also visit http://www.projectrachel.org.au |
| TABOR JOURNEY: The Tabor Journey program helps people move through, and make sense of, the grief that comes when a marriage ends, whether through separation, divorce or death. For further information, phone 5221 7055. |
| YARRA THEOLOGICAL UNION |
| SEEKING FORMER
STUDENTS OF YTU:
If you have ever studied at Yarra Theological Union and would like to on the YTU alumni/alumnae list please send us your contact details. Email us at: admin@ytu.edu.au – writing “YTU contacts update” in the subject line – or write to us at P.O. Box 79, Box Hill, 3128. Please pass this on to any other ex - students you may know. We look forward to the opportunity of keeping you in touch with what is happening at YTU, and will happily send you our popular college e-newsletter, A Little Yeast. We also invite you to visit our website www.ytu.edu.au |