TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Becoming young again
My contribution to this weekly message will be quite brief as I am presently on the Gold Coast assisting my daughter Angela and her husband Sam with their newly arrived baby, Spencer. Regular readers may recall that Angela and Sam lost their daughter Ada, at five months, to SIDS last Christmas.
TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Pray for peace
In this Year of Mercy I hope you are mindful that this Wednesday, 21st September, is International Day of Peace. This day was established in 1981 and is observed each year, corresponding with our Spring Equinox. I first became aware of this day when I was Religious Education Co-ordinator at St Joseph’s College, Tweed Heads. Its motto was Peace through Justice. This school was established in 1993 and had no connection with a religious congregation or an associated charism, so we chose our motto as our way of being.
RAY COLLINS: Year 12 graduations
It is rather interesting to note that around this time of the year I will have completed 61 years of continuous involvement in school education.
Parliament right to ditch cuts to benefits for poor and disadvantaged communities
Plans to place the burden of budget repair on those who can least afford it were wrong morally and economically.
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has welcomed the Federal Parliament’s decision to change their plans to cut the energy supplement to welfare recipients.
TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: Something beautiful for God
Once again the weekend is upon me and I contemplate my message in the light of the Integrity in the Service of the Church formation which I was part of on Saturday, along with the canonisation of Mother Teresa and the upcoming Celebration of Religious as part of the 150 Year celebration of our diocese.
RAY COLLINS: Polding Athletics Carnival
Sport has always been a feature of Catholic schools for as long as I can remember.
TUESDAYS WITH TERESA: "True culture change requires changes in environment, values, attitudes, relationships and behaviours."
You would have to admit that the past week has been a big week for the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, for those who have appeared before the Royal Commission, for the broader community and most especially for those who have been harmed by the perpetrators of child sexual abuse and a system which failed to act.
RAY COLLINS: 19th Special Needs Mass
The influence parents can have in the education of their children is celebrated in a rather special way each year through the annual Special Needs Mass.