My dear sisters and brothers in Christ, each year, one of the interesting tasks that befalls to the organising committee of the Marian Procession is to find an image of the Blessed Virgin. Look at the image that our talented Chancery Office team have created for today, its world-wide debut.
A young Murray Bridge community advocate has been making some quite extraordinary efforts to help shine a light on domestic violence by putting his feet on the ground and running, and running, and running.
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The 77th annual Marian Procession took place on Sunday 17 May with about 2,000 people taking advantage of the sunshine to walk from Victoria Park to Victoria Square where Archbishop Patrick O'Regan led the liturgy. It was a quite extraordinary turnout with flags and banners showing where people had come from across the Archdiocese. Photographer BEN MACMAHON was on hand to capture the action.
Adelaide comedian Jackson Grant is accustomed to being judged. For the past six years, he stood under harsh stage lights in pubs and festival tents, hoping to make a room full of strangers laugh.
Margaret A. Clark’s new book In Good Company tells the story of the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary and their long legacy of care in Australia.
The bluestone Flinders Street Baptist Church on the corner of Divett Place has been in situ since 1863. It’s a beautiful, Gothic style, building but even when the jacaranda tree outside is not obscuring it in late spring, it fits into its surrounds and can easily be missed.
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