Week 2
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MENTAL HEALTH WEEK 2019: Bishop Sproxton’s call to break stigmas surrounding mental health issues
In a letter to parishes throughout Australia in preparation for World Mental Health Day (October 10), a hope-filled Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton cited that the challenge of the Church remains for parishes to create opportunities for people who are not used to addressing issues around mental health and their fears – without undermining and invalidating people with mental health issues.
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National Deacons Conference 2019: ‘The Father and I are one’
More than 80 deacons, candidates, aspirants and wives attended the fifth biennial Australian National Association of Deacons (NAD) Conference from 3 to 6 October at the University of Notre Dame Fremantle Campus.
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Standing At the Edge of the Rubicon
It was nearly 2,000 years ago that Julius Caesar defiantly marched his army to the edge of the Rubicon river; made his famous declaration ‘area iata est’ (the die has been cast); and waded across the shallows and into an historic conflict.