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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop&#187; Happiness</title>
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	<description>A weblog dedicated to Mary MacKillop</description>
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		<title>CHRISTMAS IS FOR MAKING CHILDREN HAPPY? perhaps not in real life.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/christmas-is-for-making-children-happy-perhaps-not-in-real-life</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some children Christmas is a long day.
Mummy and daddy not living together, they must present themselves to mummy plus a “partner” whom they are expected to be nice to.
Then to daddy plus another “partner” . . . .
Then to multiple grandparents, not necessarily very keen on each other.
How can children know whom they belong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BELIEF IN GOD: Wishful thinking? Or step one in taking responsibility for your life?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/belief-in-god-wishful-thinking-or-step-one-in-taking-responsibility-for-your-life</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemplation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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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>MODERN PRESTIGE AUTOMOBILES: Does your car make a statement about you?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/modern-prestige-automobiles-does-your-car-make-a-statement-about-you</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of a friend of mine recently bought a motor vehicle.
On the back it says “Suzuki”, “Trekker”, “V6”, “Grand”, “Vitara” and “Prestige”.
All those words!
Translated into normal English, do they not mean “Status Symbol”, “Status Symbol”, “V6”, “Status Symbol”, “Status Symbol”, “Status Symbol”? 
* * *
There’s a saying, “Live simply so that others may simply live”.
Many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FATHERS DAY: a time for sharing love and loyalty</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/fathers-day-a-time-for-sharing-love-and-loyalty</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/fathers-day-a-time-for-sharing-love-and-loyalty#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woolworths are at it again.
Not only are they Australia’s leading provider of gambling-addictive poker machines.
Not only must they flog cigarettes at the very front of every store.
Now on a day that could be a time of family enjoyment, they must use it to exploit another form of addiction.
Yes, for Father’s Day, their slogan is, “Give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE POPE GREETS MILLIONS OF YOUTH AT MADRID: hopeful signs of a turning to God?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/the-pope-greets-millions-of-youth-at-madrid-hopeful-signs-of-a-turning-to-god</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/the-pope-greets-millions-of-youth-at-madrid-hopeful-signs-of-a-turning-to-god#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sacraments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2011 World Youth Day has come and gone.
Two million young Catholics found their way to Madrid to hear Pope Benedict XVI.
Hundreds of thousands greeted his arrival with deafening sounds.
Yet at the appropriate moments – during Mass, during the pauses on the Way of the Cross – the silence was absolute.
It tempts one to hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POPE BENEDICT VISITS CATHOLIC CROATIA: Working towards a Christian Europe?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/pope-benedict-visits-catholic-croatia-working-towards-a-christian-europe</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/pope-benedict-visits-catholic-croatia-working-towards-a-christian-europe#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI spent last weekend in Croatia.
He made it clear that he favours Croatia entering the European Union.
The Pope sees it as an opportunity for Catholic Croatia to help reverse the drift of Europe towards becoming a dreary flatland of secularism, materialism, relativism and atheism.
And he insists that there can be no absolute separation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EASTER DAY. DAY OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION: Happiest celebration of the Christian year.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/easter-day-day-of-christ%e2%80%99s-resurrection-happiest-celebration-of-the-christian-year</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/easter-day-day-of-christ%e2%80%99s-resurrection-happiest-celebration-of-the-christian-year#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saint Mark’s Gospel:
When the Sabbath day was over, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices with which to go and anoint Jesus.
Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they went to the tomb, the sun being now risen.
They were saying to one another, ‘Who will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHILE’S RESPECT FOR CHILDREN: Abortion still illegal.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/chile%e2%80%99s-respect-for-children-abortion-still-illegal</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/chile%e2%80%99s-respect-for-children-abortion-still-illegal#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government of Chile is running a program called “Chile Grows with You” – described by TV commercials as “an invitation from the government to protect children”.
Chile seems to have a clearer idea of what a child is than, for example, Australia does.
One Chilean ad shows a baby moving its arms and legs inside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QUENTIN BRYCE (GG) and JULIA GILLARD (PM): International Women’s Day thoughts.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/quentin-bryce-gg-and-julia-gillard-pm-international-women%e2%80%99s-day-thoughts</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/quentin-bryce-gg-and-julia-gillard-pm-international-women%e2%80%99s-day-thoughts#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was apparently International Women’s Day.
Australia’s Governor General, Mrs Quentin Bryce, who is a woman, said she is “open to the idea of quotas” to boost numbers of women in senior positions at their workplace.
Is she then?
So she believes in discrimination on the grounds of gender?
Anyway, let’s forget about her . . . .
* * [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EASTER EGGS WITH A DIFFERENCE: Some good news for a change?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/easter-eggs-with-a-difference-some-good-news-for-a-change</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/easter-eggs-with-a-difference-some-good-news-for-a-change#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Britain, 80 million Easter eggs are sold each year.
80 million little nails in the coffin of the Christian religion.
80 million little propaganda units spreading the word that Easter is about holidays and chocolate.
Not about God.
* * *
But this year something new under the sun is about to appear.
Some British supermarket chains will be stocking [...]]]></description>
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