In modern day life, with its distractions, anxiety, depression, anger, and addiction, it seems hard to experience God’s transforming love and healing touch. Many of us seem to play a role as a good Catholic woman/wife/mum/daughter/friend/ professional, but don’t necessarily experience the fullness of life as a child of God at the core of our … Continue reading God is nearer to us than we are to ourselves – An Update from Anima Perth
We are starting a new series "The Saints In Our Lives". Saints are so important in our tradition and in our understanding of how to live a good and moral life in Christ. We feel that their stories are not being heard enough and that in our culture today, their ability to encourage and inspire our … Continue reading The Saints in Our Lives – St Francis de Sales
Hello for another week, coming to you from a very hot Melbourne. We are hunckered down in the air-conditioning trying to keep ourselves from melting! Hope that you, wherever you are in Australia and even New Zealand, are surviving ok and that your electricity hasn't decided to pack it in. Burnout. It seems to be … Continue reading Around the Web – Week 3, 2018
Vice driven decisions begin slowly, like a small snowball, as it begins its descent down the steep slope. Then, as vice feeds upon vice the snowball grows to gigantic proportions and travels at extreme speed before it crashes spectacularly at the base of the mountain, causing untold damage to village below. Our culture, like the … Continue reading Cultivating Virtue Unearths Life’s Purpose
The Anima Women's Network in Perth, supported by the Respect Life Office are holding a live-in women's retreat between 16th and 18th February which will be facilitated by psychologist Meredith Secomb. In modern day life, with its distractions, anxiety, depression, anger and addiction, it seems hard to experience God’s transforming love and healing touch. However, … Continue reading Finding God in Every Day Life – Anima Retreat Perth
Professor Nicholas Tonti-Filippini was a dynamo of generous encouragement with a mind and a heart to match. This month is the third anniversary of his death after a 25 year struggle with debility, pain and illness. At the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family he spent his last years spurring us all on to heighten … Continue reading Around The Web – Special Edition. In Memoriam Nicholas Tonti-Filippini
Today many young women not only refuse to describe themselves as “feminists” they have no idea that “International Women’s Day” on March 8th, began on the day that women in Germany and Austria first attained the right to vote in 1911. Christian women both in Germany and around the world were key players in promoting … Continue reading Breathing New Life into Women’s Dignity.
