Homemade birthday cards are a thoughtful (and sometimes thrifty) alternative to buying from the newsagents. However they don’t have to be boring! Enter the DIY surprise balloon card. Materials: Coloured card (as you desire, here I have used A5, but you can go much bigger!) Scissors and / or precision cutter Paper glue and/or […]
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On May 30, 2008 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared, through the Vatican daily newspaper ‘L’Osservatore Romano’, that any women who attempted ‘ordination’ or any bishops who attempted to ‘ordain’ women are automatically excommunicated by their actions. This decree came in the wake of a number of women attempting to be
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Samantha is a wife, and mother of three kids here aged 7, 4 and 2, and three little ones in heaven. A valued member of our team, here’s a look at her faith journey and motivation to join the YCM team. Where did you grow up?: Melbourne What was your experience of Catholicism growing up?
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I made this empty tomb model a few years back, and it has been used year after year! We reenact the Carrying of the Cross, The Passion and lay Jesus in the tomb on Good Friday. On Easter Sunday the stone has been rolled away and we can see He is Risen! Its lots
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Ashley Mitcham is a convert to Catholicism. An occasional blogger Ashley, along with her husband and 3 year old daughter, welcomed a baby boy, into her family in October 2015. Where did you grow up? Bendigo Victoria What was your experience of Catholicism growing up? My family are protestant, I found the Catholic Church through attending a
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Sarah, one of the cofounders of Young Catholic Mums, has been married for ten years and has 5 girls; 1 boy and another on the way! Where did you grow up? I grew up in Albury, NSW. What was your experience of Catholicism growing up? Despite attending Catholic schools and having parents devoted to
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Emily Shaw is a member of the Young Catholic Mums team and lives in regional NSW with her husband and their four children. Where did you grow up? I moved around a bit as a child, living in a few towns before my parents settled in Wagga Wagga in regional NSW when I was
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Jill, one of the co-founders of Young Catholic Mums, has been married for five years and has five little kiddies under five! 4.5 year old boy, 3 year old girl, 2 year old boy and 5 month old twin boys! Where did you grow up? I was born in Singapore, but migrated to Melbourne
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In the Apostles Creed the only ancient statement of Christian beliefs, one of the twelve articles of which the Creed is comprised says: “he ascended into heaven where he is seated at the right hand of God the Father..” Jesus ascended and was not assumed. Indeed, Elijah in the Old Testament was assumed in a
AUDIO GOSPEL REFLECTIONS ~ 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Recorded Homily, Sunday 20th September 2015: By Father Peter Murphy, Parish Priest, Holy Spirit Lavington, New South Wales. LISTEN NOW
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