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9 Key Marist Laity Documents These 9 documents explore the nature of Marist Spirituality. Including - Like a Bridge, Shine Out into the Church and My Life is not very hidden.

A Lay Woman’s Reflection on Marist Spirituality and the interface with Spiritual Direction by Bev McDonald, B.Theol. I have recently completed two years formation as a spiritual director with Spiritual Growth Ministries (New Zealand) and in that time my understanding and experience of spiritual direction expanded enormously.

A Paradigm of Struggle Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols can disappoint us. We learn that there is such a thing as human support and that

A Simple Pattern The Story of Jeabbe-Maria Chavoin: Foundress of the Marist Sisters

Champagnat Marcellin Champagnat the founder of the Marist Brothers was one of the 12 whole to the first Fourieve pledge in 1816. Here are some of his stories.

Champagnat, Marcellin Values and characters of Marcellin Champagnat. Including simplicity, deep concern and open mindedness.

Death and Resurrection - a reflection and guide in meditation St Benedict told his monks, 'Always keep death before your eyes.' We don't talk much about death in the modern world. But what the whole Christian tradition tells us is that if we would become wise we must learn the lesson that we have here 'no abidi

Do whatever he tells you. Being invited by Maria Baden and the Marist Laity Committee to offer the keynote address at this inaugural Marist Laity Conference in Australia is a great privilege and I thank them for this wonderful opportunity to be involved in the conference in t

Easter Reflection Jesus came from a small village (Nazareth) in rural Galilee. As an adult, he used Capernaum as his home-base. For at least a year he had gone around the countryside and the lakeside, reaching out to common people, including in a special way the imp

How is Mary MacKillop a role model for Australians Really effective role models are expanded versions of ourselves, with our best features enhanced and our failings overcome. They are the way we should like to be.

Iconography Icons and Devotional Paintings The icons and devotional paintings in this exhibition convey the theology and contemplative power inherent in icons, along with the experience of universal divine and human love that traverses the bounds of religious affiliations and unites us all. T

Joy at the Crib One of the holiest places on earth, on this Christmas night, is the crib. I do find it historically strange that Christmas was not celebrated at all in the church for the first four centuries, and that it was only since the thirteenth century that C

Living Life's Roller Coaster - A Marist Perspective from Father Paul Cooney sm Recently I was on a two-month sabbatical and a highlight of my time away was l0 days visiting the places of our Marist origins in France. Names of places that I had heard so often in association with our founders now come alive for me: La Neyliere, L

Living the Marist Spirit as a Marist Missionary Sister - Reflections from Sr Jenny Clarke smsm Sr Jenny Clarke was born in Brisbane Queensland. After graduating as a doctor in 1969, she worked in various places. Jenny met the Marist Missionary Sisters while working in Jamaica. She returned to Australia for novitiate and she was professed in 19

Living with noise, silence and a bit of presence Recently I was reading in the Australian Catholic Weekly about a woman complaining and asking a question regarding a person rudely speaking during mass. The response given to her question largely argued that 'silence' as being holier than 'noise'. So

Marist life and mission: Gifts of the Spirit for our time A common letter from the superiors of the four Marist branches The letter is entitled, Marist life and Mission: Gifts of the Spirit for our Times'

Meeting Miriam Rose and Aboriginal Spirituality Teaching Aboriginal Sprirituality !! With all the good will in the world (and there really was a lot of it around!) I look back and realize how little I really understood …with my heart and soul. But one gem which I have treasured over the years, and

Our Response to Violence - A Eucharistic Perspective We looked at how these two poles, 'outward show' and 'managing guilt', could ritualize the violence of 'intolerance' and 'make-believe' by putting the blame on some thing or some one, thus giving birth to the scapegoat, and how this ritualization thr

Pentecost and living by the Spirit 'Without the Holy Spirit,' wrote Ignatius of Laodicea, 'God is distant, Christ is merely an historical figure, the Gospel is a dead letter, the Church is just an organisation, authority is domination, mission is propaganda, liturgy is only nostalgia,

Reflections on Easter Week 2011 I would like tonight to look as closely as I can at the original meaning Jesus gave to the last supper, in contrast with meanings of it that understandably developed in early Christian groups after his resurrection. We are dealing with an inexhausti

Resurrection Changed Everything On that first Easter morning something truly extraordinary happened to Jesus: God raised him from death to new life. But that wasn't all. Something extraordinary happened to the women who went to the tomb and, eventually, to all the disciples. And it

Sacred Icons Dr Ursula Betka, an Iconographer and Art Historian who created the 2005 series of Christmas stamp icons, spoke to Marist Laity on Saturday May 20th at 2.30pm, in St Scholastica's Gathering Room on Sacred Icons. A number of small icons painted by Ursu

Travellers in Hope This story of Blessed Marcellin Champagnat and his relationship with the other Founders and pioneers of the Society of Mary falls into three divisions. In Part One (Chapters One to Four), the period from 1816 to 1829, the affairs of the main characte

Why I hope for a Marian church I would like to plead for a Marian church; not for a church which multiplies processions and blesses huge statues...Rather a church which 'lives the gospel after the manner of Mary'.

Reflection Day November 2011

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