“June is PTSD Awareness Month. We still have amongst us veterans of World War II and Vietnam who are living with PTSD, and increasing numbers produced through our involvement in Afghanistan. The human cost is high and long-felt. And yet, here we are aiming to become one of the top 10 producers of armaments in the world and hosting a weapons Expo,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt
Cannon Hill Anglican College students recently visited Lourdes Hill College for a special student forum with Catholic and other secondary schools about Pope Francisâ encyclical Laudato Siâ: on care for our common home. Find out more about the forum, including from CHAC Social Justice Coordinator Marion Rutter and students Sienna and Anouk
âWhile disruptive, retiring from Diocesan ministry held the promise of new vistas, as we needed to develop separate identities apart from âpriestâ, âpriestâs wifeâ and âpriestâs daughtersâ. I found this quite liberating,â says The Revâd Karol Misso
âThis book has cemented in me a religious outlook that resembles a scientistâs â the impact of my actions can be measured not by the actions themselves, but by the way they affect the ones around me,â says Vicky Pascon, St Johnâs College UQ student and St Andrewâs, South Brisbane parishioner
Throughout Term 2, St Margaretâs students participated in Phones for Change, an initiative led by the Prefects which encouraged the girls to reflect on the importance of connection, particularly as a result of the impacts of COVID-19
Bishop Cam Venables asks us to reflect on the myth of the fairy tale ending âhappily ever afterâ: “the stories of Christian faith, not fairy tales, become incredibly life-giving because they remind us of the One who knows us best, and loves us the mostâ
Peace! Be still! Quiet the storm within
As part of our continuing series on Reconciliation Action Plan achievements, The Rev’d Susan Crothers-Robertson tells us about how St Johnâs Anglican College primary students recently explored Reconciliation Prayer Spaces with students opening themselves to awe and wonder: âWhen the students were welcomed into the prayer space, it felt there was an inner hospitality, an inner awakening, that God was inviting us into a deeper sense of being, as we reflected on the first peoples of the landâ