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Pope Francis’ message for the 2024 World Day of the Sick

WEBMESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS. XXXII WORLD DAY OF THE SICK. 11 February 2024. “It is not good that man should be alone”. Healing the Sick by Healing Relationships. “It is not good that man should be alone” (cf. Gen 2:18). From the beginning, God, who is love, created us for communion and endowed us with an innate capacity to

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Reflecting on the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick

WEBSo, I am all for it.”. “Thank you, Michael. I echo the words of John Baldovin”. “Dear Michael and friends, please continue your anointing of the sick as you have been in the past, don’t let the comments of some who appear not to understand the needs of both the physical and mentally unwell, change your thoughts.

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A reflection for World Day of the Sick – Catholic Outlook

WEBFor the formation session from 9 am to 10:30 am, please RSVP to [email protected]. For the Diocesan Mass for the World Day of the Sick, with Anointing, commencing 11 am, please RSVP for catering purposes to [email protected]. Any questions and enquiries can be directed to Deacon Dr Michael Tan at [email protected].

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Priests and Brothers for the Sick – Catholic Outlook

WEBSt Camillus de Lellis is a name that rolls off the tongue, the well-known Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes and the Sick. Less well known is his over 400-year-old order, known as the Camillian Order, the Clerics Minor, Ministers of the Infirm, who are devoted to caring for people suffering from health conditions.

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Bishop Vincent launches campaign of hope and care amidst youth …

WEBBishop Vincent Long’s concern for the mental health crisis affecting young people who have suffered during the stringent lockdown, particularly those in the hardest-hit Western Sydney LGAs of concern, has resulted in a new campaign “With You”.

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Richmond’s St John of God Hospital to be redeveloped as …

WEBGeneral the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK CVO MC (Retd) and NSW Minister for Transport and Veterans David Elliott on Thursday turned the first sod for a major redevelopment at specialist mental health hospital, St John of God Richmond Hospital, ahead of the facility’s Veterans’ Day commemoration.

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Pope Francis’ message for World Day of the Sick 2023

WEBXXXI WORLD DAY OF THE SICK. 11 February 2023. “Take care of him”. Compassion as a synodal exercise of healing. Dear brothers and sisters! Illness is part of our human condition. Yet, if illness is experienced in isolation and abandonment, unaccompanied by care and compassion, it can become inhumane.

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Catholic Healthcare settles on three new aged care development …

WEBCatholic Healthcare is delighted to announce the settlement of three new aged care development sites, the first tranche in collaboration with Lendlease. The services, located in Richmond and Mount Martha in Victoria, as well as Jordan Springs in New South Wales, will enhance the organisation’s ability to provide modern, integrated person

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Catholic 101: What is prayer

WEBThe Rosary: This popular devotional prayer invites us to meditate on the saving mysteries of Jesus’ life and the faithful witness of Mary, our Mother in faith. Lectio Divina: In this prayer of “divine reading,” we listen to how God speaks to us through slowly reading and contemplating Scripture or other texts.

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A reflection on mental health and wellbeing – Catholic Outlook

WEBWe can easily think of mental health and wellbeing in terms of their opposites – mental illness and melancholy. Then our minds turn immediately to problem-solving and asking how people might be healed. That is enormously important. Equally important, however, are the more simple ways of supporting people.

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Holy See urges promotion and protection of human rights of the …

WEBArchbishop Bernadito Auza, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations in New York, on April 15 addressed a working group on the promotion and protection of the human rights of

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An antidote to despair: Paul Farmer’s theology of accompaniment

WEBGutiérrez is regarded by many as the father of liberation theology, and this book offers an intimate view of his decades-long friendship with Farmer. In the introduction, Michael Griffin and Jennie Weiss Block explain that Farmer and Gutiérrez both subscribe to what they call a “theology of accompaniment.”.

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A reflection on World Mental Health Day – Catholic Outlook

WEB10 October is the World Health Organisation’s World Mental Health Day. In the early days of response to the threat of coronavirus, people looked to the good of the whole society. We encouraged our leaders to act boldly and to serve the public good, taking pride in the quiet heroism of people working at risk, and recognising the gift that

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Pope Francis blesses ministry of well-known Franciscan spiritual

WEBHe shared three times very directly, “I want you to keep doing what you’re doing, keep teaching what you’re teaching.” For this Catholic boy from Kansas, that is a wonderful, hard-to-believe affirmation coming from the Pope himself, for the whole Christian contemplative movement.

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A reflection on World Health Day – Catholic Outlook

WEBApril 7 is the World Health Organisation’s World Health Day. If we think of World Health Day, it is easy to be patronising. We do not associate it with our own society or with others like our own, but with regions in the world where there is little infrastructure and little access to medical care. If we are generous, we might seem it as a

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A reflection for World Health Day – Catholic Outlook

WEB7 April is the United Nations' World Health Day Most Australians are fortunate enough to be able to take their health for granted for much of their lives. We have sufficient food to keep

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Parramatta hosts Clergy Healthcare conference – Catholic Outlook

WEBThe Diocese of Parramatta’s Clergy Health and Wellbeing team hosted the Australia and New Zealand Clergy Healthcare Coordinators conference in Parramatta from 13 to 15 March.

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Vatican correspondent and Pope Francis expert, Christopher White …

WEBAs part of the Diocese of Parramatta’s Bishop Vincent Presents series, Vatican correspondent and Pope Francis expert Christopher White is coming to Australia for a series of events in Parramatta, Sydney and Melbourne.

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Contemporary Challenges for Global Catholicism – Catholic Outlook

WEBe-Magazine. Contemporary Challenges for Global Catholicism. By Thomas P. Rausch SJ, 12 June 2021. Pope Francis at World Youth Day 2019 in Panama. Image: James Logan/Panama2019. Jesuit Father Karl Rahner was one of the first to recognise that the Second Vatican Council had transformed the western Catholic Church into a world …

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