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1. Parents, principals urged to ignore NAPLAN boycott  

   21-May-2012

   School principals and parents are being warned against a boycott of the annual national numeracy and literacy tests, writes Jean Edwards.

   
   

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2. Surfing great rides the wave of life  

   21-May-2012

   Mark Richards doesn’t recommend that kids follow the example he set while a student at Sacred Heart Primary and later Marist Brothers Hamilton.

   
   

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3. Give power to principals to choose their A-team  

   21-May-2012

   The strike by NSW Teachers recently is an important moment in the life of the O'Farrell administration. We cannot expect to hold principals accountable for their performance if we do not give them the executive authority required to do their job, writes Ross Cameron.

   
   

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4. How a young priest helped me hear Jesus  

   21-May-2012

   In many ways, I am the least likely of Catholics. I left the church in my teens, more interested in punk rock and creative writing than sacraments and theology. And yet some arcane part of me pined for the church I’d left behind, writes Kaya Oakes.

   
   

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5. Take the world away  

   21-May-2012

   Musician Amanda McKenna performs “Take the world away”, her tribute song to St Mary MacKillop. She explains to the community at St Vincent's, Redfern how she came to write the song.

   
   

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6. Sydney teacher launches poetry book to the world  

   21-May-2012

   Students at Mary MacKillop Primary, Penrith South, know Darren McErlain as their teacher. However this month Darren is making a name for himself in the literary world, launching his new book of poems, Totally Random Poems for Kids.

   
   

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7. Receive the Holy Spirit  

   21-May-2012

   John 20:19-23: Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you." When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. ²³If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."

   
   

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8. The Divine Artist who dwells in us  

   21-May-2012

   The Holy Spirit is the Divine Artist, Who by His last touches, brings the work to its full perfection, writes Sr Hildegard Ryan OSB.

   
   

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9. What does Pentecost mean?  

   21-May-2012

   The presence of so many nations in Jerusalem is significant that these nations are mentioned because they heard the apostles speaking in their own language. This is the reversal of the Tower of Babel, the sin of pride, which shut nations off from one another, writes Sr Hildegard Ryan OSB.

   
   

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10. That's not what I meant  

    21-May-2012

    Maria and Masoud know all too well the reality that "marriage is unpredictable and complicated, a never-ending and sometimes painstaking process of give-and-take that still allows for our cultural differences." The real miracle of Pentecost (Acts 2) is one of listening, writes Fr John Frauenfelder.

    
    

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