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Parishioner, St David's, Chelmer-Graceville and St Hugh's, Inala

Margaret Thurgood

About Margaret -

Margaret Thurgood is a Parishioner at St David’s, Chelmer-Graceville and St Hugh’s, Inala, and has a special interest in spiritual writing. She graduated from UQ in 1939 with a Bachelor of Science.

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Articles by Margaret

The book I have given away the most and why: Margaret Thurgood

“This book is a parable about how people would react to Jesus today and how the Church, in an institutional sense, could react to him,” says centenarian parishioner Margaret Thurgood

Sunday Devotion: 12 December 2021, Third Sunday of Advent

The Holy Spirit is our advocate

Margaret Thurgood reading her reflection on 'spiritual stocktaking' during Advent to anglican focus Editor, Michelle

Margaret’s musings: spiritual stocktaking

“As a financial year ends and a new one starts there is always stocktaking, so at the start of this Church year we should all do some spiritual stocktaking,” says soon-to-be-101-year-old Margaret Thurgood from St David’s, Chelmer-Graceville and St Hugh’s, Inala

Q&A with trailblazing UQ science graduate, Cursillo member, writer and centenarian parishioner, Margaret Thurgood

Meet 100-year-old Margaret Thurgood and find out about her unique faith journey, her thoughts on Advent, her work in the stock sector, the thing that makes her nostalgic and what unexpected question she is always asking herself