Mary MacKillop has been accredited with the necessary requirements to be recognised as a saint by the Roman Catholic church. She spent what seems to have been a brief, but formative, period of her life in Penola which is fifty kilometers north of Mount Gambier. It may not be known to folk outside Australia that …
You do visit Scotty Smith’s blog don’t you? Each prayer/devotion is a concise and thoughtful expression of the theme behind a Bible verse. Like this: A Prayer About the Perfect Birthing Experience from Founding Pastor Scotty Smith’s Blog by scotty.smith@christcommunity.org But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, …
I’ve had the following links floating around my feed-reader for a while now, but I did want to post them here. In Switzerland on November 29 a referendum proposing a ban on the construction of new minarets on mosques was passed. The popular vote outcome was 58% in favour while 42% opposed, with three-quarters of …
This morning at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, North Adelaide we sang many carols and reflected on Bethlehem, the house of bread and the one who was born to be bread and life for the world. During the service we heard ‘O Holy Night’. As wikipedia tells us, “O Holy Night” (“Cantique de Noël”) is a …
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