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ADVENT Find out how to stay spiritually grounded amid the secular frenzy during this season of waiting. Vista 2-3 -3
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Geelong priest sets up a Mass centre in one of the biggest st shopping g centres in the country. In the US, Capuchin friars find themselves emselves inundated by thousands of people - also in a shopping centre - wanting them to hear their confessions. Read about how the Church around the world is finding creative ways to take its message to...
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Authors autographs... were in hot demand when the Trinity College Junior Writers’ Club launched a new publication called A Book For Boys. PHOTO: COURTESY TRINITY COLLEGE
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The new public squares: This shopping centre is typical of modern life and also typical of where most people living in developed nations like Australia go for all their needs. But no material goods can satisfy the deepest longings of the human heart. As our cover story shows, Catholic priests in some places, including Australia, are finding creative solutions to communicating the Gospel - and to bringing people to God.
CREATIVITY was put to good use by the Trinity College Junior School Young Writers’ Club this term as they wrote individual short illustrated stories and published them as a collection aptly named A Book by Boys. This entertaining collection of tales that romp through adventures with kings, wizards, warlords and water bombs has been catalogued by the National Library of Australia and is professionally printed and bound. The book is the brainchild of Year 5 teacher and Chief Editor Mrs Jackie Williams who is delighted with the final product. She said that in producing the book “the boys made an amazing journey in such a short space of time.” “To see the boys’ eyes light up when they saw the published book made all my sleepless nights of editing seem worthwhile,” she said. “At the book launch a parent asked me ‘How can we ever repay you for what you have done for our boys?’ I looked over to the boys sitting at their signing desk, and as their beaming faces greeted excited ‘fans’ and as they signed their ‘author’ signature, I realised they already had.” Continued - Vista 1
“For I see no reason to be ashamed of the Gospel; it is God’s power for the salvation of everyone who has faith - Jews first, but Greeks as well - for in it he revealed the saving justice of God; a justice based on faith and addressed to faith. As it says in Scripture: “Anyone who is upright in faith through faith will live”.” Letter to the Romans 1:16-17
PAUL IN A NUTSHELL, by a priest of the Archdiocese - Page 8