Advent 2020
Advent Reflection. Take a moment to close your eyes and go on a journey of remembering. Think back to when you were a little child and some special event was to occur in the very near future. You may have been awaiting a birthday or a holiday or Christmas. As you remember, tap into the […]
Josephite Companions: Aotearoa Advent/Christmas Prayer Sheet
Advent
Advent Musings Every year as we celebrate the Season of Advent many reflections are offered for us to ponder. Here is another one. As a child the Season usually meant an impatient wait for Christmas. If Advent was even thought about religiously it meant waiting for Jesus to be born in a stable in Bethlehem […]
Advent/Christmas Prayer Sheet
Josephite Companions Aotearoa Advent Prayer Sheet 2018
Queensland Associates Advent Newsletter
Advent Prayer Sheet Josephite Companions Aotearoa 2017
Praying With Mary In Advent
Christmas now, with Mary MacKillop
Christmas is near. With such joy, we celebrate the birth of a Child, a reminder that we are all children of a lavishly loving God who, in Jesus, chose to have no boundaries between divinity and humanity! Following Jesus, Mary MacKillop lived in a way that held no boundaries around her love for God and […]
Embracing inclusion at Figtree Early Learning Centre, Croydon
To acknowledge the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December) and Pope Francis’ December prayer intention: For persons with disabilities, St Anthony’s Family Care provides a feature on their Figtree Early Learning Centre. Ensuring the meaningful inclusion of children at Figtree Early Learning Centre is not just a social and moral responsibility; it is […]
The End of the Year of St Joseph
What a wonderful collection of reflections we have had on Saint Joseph to mark the 150th year of St Joseph being declared Patron of the Universal Church. Launched on 8 December 2020, this special year concludes on 8 December 2021. A highlight of this year for us as the Sisters of Saint Joseph, was to […]
St Mary MacKillop – Our Australian Saint
As a child, Saints were an important part of my world. As a community we celebrated our patrons and gazed with mysterious wonder at the beautiful statues that adorned our parish churches. We valued the holy pictures given for achievement or for special occasions, attended the weekly novena for Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and […]