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1. Reflection - One of our own in heaven  

   13-Oct-2010

   The significance of Australia’s first canonised Saint lies in the fact we now have one of our own in heaven whom we can call on to pray for us – a special friend in heaven, writes Rev Peter Ingham, the Bishop of Wollongong.

   
   

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2. Featured website - Saint Sebastian outside the Walls  

   13-Oct-2010

   The Basilica of Saint Sebastian Outside the Walls is so named because it is outside the Aurelian walls from the ancient era. Traditionally, it is one of the seven pilgrim churches in Rome.

   
   

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3. The Mary MacKillop Story - Part 4  

   13-Oct-2010

   After only three years in Adelaide, Mary MacKillop’s Sisters were providing other services as well as educational. Care was available in The Providence (for neglected children, girls in danger and the aged poor), The Solitude (for the aged and the incurably ill), a Refuge (for women off the streets or newly from jail), and an Orphanage. As numbers increased, the Sisters needed to beg for the food required.

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4. Daily Events - Mary MacKillop Heritage Centre, Melbourne  

   13-Oct-2010

   

   MELBOURNE

   Each day until October 15, from 12.30pm-1.30pm, the Mary MacKillop Heritage Centre (pictured) will hold a Holy Hour, featuring hymns and music, prayer, readings, blessing, silent prayer.

   ADELAIDE

   The Sisters of St Joseph Chapel in Kensington will hold prayer evenings from 7pm-7.45pm until October 17, followed by supper.

   
   

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5. Feature - Michelangelo, after hours and very private  

   13-Oct-2010

   It was just after 8pm, by now dark outside the walls of Vatican City, and a small group of us were following a guide through the maze that is the Vatican museums. Our private tour is exorbitantly expensive, but is it worth it?

   
   

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6. 140 Scots to attend canonisation  

   13-Oct-2010

   Around 140 people from various parts of Scotland will travel to Rome for the canonisation of Blessed Mary MacKillop, whose family background is closely connected to the Scottish Highlands. Among those travelling to Rome will be Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Bishop Ian Murray, and Bishop Joseph Toal (pictured), the present Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, along with several people who have family connections to Mary.

   
   

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7. Blog - The business of making saints  

   13-Oct-2010

   It was said that when Pope John Paul travelled he liked to have his passport in one pocket and a saint in the other. Perhaps for the first time, the 1995 TV documentary The Business of Making Saints placed Mary MacKillop's beatification into an international context by comparing her process towards sainthood with many others, including Opus Dei founder Jose Maria Escriva.

   
   

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8. Photo Gallery - Finding fellow pilgrims on the streets of Rome  

   13-Oct-2010

   'I have my ears peeled, waiting for the familiar sounds of "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi! Oi! Oi!" to ring through St Peter’s square in celebration of our pride in our Aussie girl, Mary Mack,' writes Australian Catholic Bishops Conference media officer Beth Doherty.

   
   

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9. Aussie wine arrives in Rome for celebrations  

   13-Oct-2010

   Dozens of cases of wine from the Coonawarra region of South Australia have arrived in Rome in preparation for the canonisation of Mary MacKillop. The Australian Ambassador to the Holy See, Tim Fischer, had asked the Coonawarra Vignerons' Association to send the wine for official embassy functions.

   
   

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10. Josephite sisters set off for Rome  

    13-Oct-2010

    Sisters of St Joseph have taken to the heavens, flying to the Vatican for the ceremony which will confirm Mary MacKillop, the founder of their order, as Australia's first saint. A group of 39 Josephite sisters, ranging from Anne-Marie Gallagher (pictured) in her mid-twenties to others in their mid-eighties, flew out of Sydney yesterday, according to an AAP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.

    
    

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11. Indigenous pilgrims honour down-to-earth Mary  

    13-Oct-2010

    When Vicki Clark (pictured) reflects on Mary MacKillop, she does so without the reverential tone expected in Rome next Sunday.

    Ms Clark is the self-effacing Catholic emissary whose torchbearers at the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart - the Josephites - apologised to indigenous Australians back in 1999, long before Kevin Rudd said "sorry".

    
    

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