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21 September 2003
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Heaven
scent floral feast
Welcome
strangers’ call
Bishops:
Fight racism
Bishop
Mayne dies at 75
Senate
‘yes’ to gay bid
Benedictine
nuns gather in Sydney
Tears
of joy at Marriage Sunday Mass
Donor
club
His
Holiness, the poet
Concert
to mark Pope’s jubilee
It’s
‘weakness of faith’
Still
a need for Catholic voice: Dr Pell
Editorial:
Spectre of fear
Letters:
Christian values
Conversation:
Amanda McKenna, Catholic singer and songwriter - ‘God’s messenger’ on a journey
of faith
Opintion:
‘Good mother of all ...’
Voice
of Youth: ‘Most wonderful day’
Insights:
Biblical ancestors?
Religious:
Spirit-ualities are everywhere
North
American, Irish, Australian sisters in historic Loreto reunion
Education:
Decade a day at school
Social
Work degree course at Strathfield
Balmain
kids hit right note
Catechism:
Daytime course
New
bishops ‘help God’s light shine in darkness’
Capacity
to forgive ...
‘Heroic
witness’ to the Gospel of hope
‘Kids
worth dying for’
Inspirations:
‘Schoolies’ faith patrol
Education: Decade a day at school
All children at St Joseph’s Primary School in the North Coast town of Alstonville are praying a decade of the rosary every day.
This responds to the request by Pope John Paul II in his Angelus address on October 14, 2001:
“On account of the present international situation, I have invited individuals and communities to pray the rosary for peace.
“I also renew this appeal today, underlining at the same time that the rosary is the contemplation of Christ in his mysteries, in close union with the Blessed Virgin Mary.”
A parishioner at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Alstonville, Phil Dean, was the instigator of the program, suggesting that children may like to take the idea on.
Every student at St Joseph’s was supplied with a set of rosary beads and teachers began teaching children the rosary.
The older children were already aware of the process involved.
It began as a novelty for the younger children, wearing their rosary beads out on to the playground.
It’s no longer a novelty, but part of the daily routine of class prayer.
More than 50 schools (primary and secondary) are involved in the Decade A Day Program.
Alstonville is between Lismore and Ballina.