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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop&#187; Contemplation</title>
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		<title>BRIAN SCHMIDT, AUSTRALIAN NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: how will his work affect our future?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Australian citizen, Brian Schmidt, is one of the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics.
His work is said to show that the universe is expanding faster and faster – not slower and slower, as we were being told to believe until recently.
Why so fast? Because of “dark energy” mate.
Dark energy is something that possibly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BELIEF IN GOD: Wishful thinking? Or step one in taking responsibility for your life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have pinched most of the following.
Hope it is some help to somebody out there:
I asked God to spare me pain. God said, “No. Hardship is your chance to detach yourself from worldly things and draw closer to me.”
I asked God to give me patience. God said, “No. Patience is a by-product of suffering. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHRISTIAN MEDITATION: The Passion of Christ and taking life seriously.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/christian-meditation-the-passion-of-christ-and-taking-life-seriously</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/christian-meditation-the-passion-of-christ-and-taking-life-seriously#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 31 is, for Catholics, the feast day of Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556).
A soldier by profession, Ignatius, while convalescing from a leg wound, did some reading including a book entitled “Lives of the Saints”.
This affected him so much that he decided to devote the rest of his life to God.
He became a priest and founded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOB KATTER’S NEW AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL PARTY: What next?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/bob-katter%e2%80%99s-new-australian-political-party-what-next</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 14:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Queenslander, Bob Katter, Independent member of federal parliament, last week formed a new party, “Katter’s Australian Party”.
Mr Katter is often spoken of as a “maverick”. Many like to dismiss him as a lightweight or an eccentric.
Sometimes he is his own worst enemy – doing himself harm by being unnecessarily offensive, e.g. referring to naturalisation ceremonies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOOD FRIDAY: Thinking about the crucifixion of Jesus</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/good-friday-thinking-about-the-crucifixion-of-jesus</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/good-friday-thinking-about-the-crucifixion-of-jesus#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus my Saviour,
I have tried to use this pre-Easter season to meditate on who you are.
And on how you died.
Your crucifixion was unjust. You did not deserve it. It was a bad thing.
Yet your death is dear to me.
Meditating on your Cross reduces me to tears.
But when I remember how you accepted that death out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BACKGROUND TO CHRIST’S PASSION AND EASTER: Time to reflect, pray, meditate and to make a commitment.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/background-to-christ%e2%80%99s-passion-time-to-reflect-pray-meditate-and-to-make-a-commitment</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/background-to-christ%e2%80%99s-passion-time-to-reflect-pray-meditate-and-to-make-a-commitment#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Gospel of Saint Luke:
Jesus went ahead on his journey to Jerusalem. 
They brought him a colt and threw their cloaks over it and helped him to mount.
They began to praise God with joy for the great things they had seen, “Blessed is the King who comes in the Name of the Lord. Hosanna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LENT IS HERE. EASTER IS COMING: Do not forget the supernatural God.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/lent-is-here-easter-is-coming-do-not-forget-the-supernatural-god</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/lent-is-here-easter-is-coming-do-not-forget-the-supernatural-god#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are now halfway between Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, and the highest point of the Christian year, Easter Sunday.
There are six Sundays in Lent. Today is the fourth.
Entering the second half of Lent, a person should check his progress.
 (1) Every Christian must make his Confession at least once during Lent. Do that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAINT MARY MACKILLOP AND THOSE MIRACLES: Consider, too, the Easter Miracle, the Resurrection of Christ.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/saint-mary-mackillop-and-those-miracles-consider-too-the-easter-miracle-the-resurrection-of-christ</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/saint-mary-mackillop-and-those-miracles-consider-too-the-easter-miracle-the-resurrection-of-christ#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last October, when Mary MacKillop was canonised, everyone was talking about miracles.
Before recognising a new saint, the Church waits until two miraculous cures following prayers to the saint are investigated and found genuine.
Mockers of the Catholic Faith despise miracles.
David Marr, in the Sydney Morning Herald:
“Let me whisper this from the back of the crowd gathering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS: Being honest and being willing to change, or to be changed.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/new-year-resolutions-being-honest-and-being-willing-to-change-or-to-be-changed</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/new-year-resolutions-being-honest-and-being-willing-to-change-or-to-be-changed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Find a few spare minutes and try to focus on God and communicate with him.
In your mind, draw up a contract or an agreement or a deal with God.
Say to him:
Dear God, I will think of this New Year as a white page on which you will write day by day whatever your loving will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHRISTMAS: A time to be thankful and humble.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/christmas-a-time-to-be-thankful-and-humble</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/christmas-a-time-to-be-thankful-and-humble#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, various political celebrities commemorated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
German chancellor, Angela Merkel, escorted leaders, including the Russian president, the French President, the British Prime Minister and the US Secretary of State, through the Brandenburg Gate.
&#8220;Today marks a truly happy moment of German and European history,&#8221; she said.
Nicely put.
* [...]]]></description>
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