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	<description>New Zealand&#039;s Monthly Spiritual Magazine</description>
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		<title>Focus: The Sin of Technolatry?</title>
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by Fr Neil Vaney sm
Many of us will recall Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant physicist, who helped craft the atomic bomb. Had he known what he was bringing to birth, he later commented, he probably would never have signed on for the Manhattan Project. In the same context, another scientist observed that every great technological breakthrough, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/?p=1216</link>
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		<title>The Integrity of Creation</title>
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by Fr Peter Healy sm
Last year our Marist General Chapter suggested that we establish a Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation Commission. This is potentially a great leap forward in Marist mission and ministry. Like many religious orders around the world the Society of Mary is now including the Earth in its mission. Not solely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/?p=1222</link>
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		<title>The times and trials of a misunderstood Pioneer!</title>
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by Elizabeth Isichei
One evening last week I was part of a small group, mainly members of our parish, meeting at the house of a friend, whose hospitable heart creates these circles, and whose Celtic love of symbolism enriches her own spiritual life and that of others.
As soon as I arrived, I saw a decanter of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/?p=1224</link>
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		<title>A Minute or Two with Father Paddy Cahill</title>
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Message from Paddy Cahill to all who have touched my life &#8211; July 2010
I recently spent ten days in hospital with pneumonia and had four litres of fluid taken from my right lung. After many tests and procedures I came home and was asked to return on Friday for an appointment regarding the biopsies. Arriving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/?p=1228</link>
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		<title>Also in the Messenger this month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As well as the above articles with illustrations, the following are in the Marist Messenger this month:
..Editor at Large&#8230;Fr Brian O’Connell sm
..A Memoir&#8230;Fr Brian O’Connell sm
..God Had a Plan for Me&#8230;Sr Mary Telesia Ta’avao csn
..The Seventeen Inch Journey&#8230;Sue Jones 
..Christianity in Japan &#8211; The Age of Martyrs&#8230;Elizabeth Isichei
..Prayer of Petition&#8230;Fr John Kelly ocso
..Quotations from Blessed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/?p=1219</link>
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		<title>Focus: The Joy of Finding One&#8217;s Charism</title>
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by Fr Frank Bird sm
It only takes a spark to light a fire. Every Sunday Walt Disney took his two little daughters to the nearby park to let them play on the merry-go-round. As he put them on the worn out merry-go-round he noticed the rusty animal shapes, the paint peeling off the roof, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/?p=1194</link>
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		<title>Value in Dialogue</title>
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by Professor Mona Siddiqui
Director, Centre for the Study of Islam, Glasgow University
It seems to me that the more I research religion, the more I find the word ‘knowledge’ in its broadest sense:  that knowledge is a divine gift not confined to the religious sphere of any one religion, and that the pursuit of knowledge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/?p=1197</link>
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		<title>Chickens and Divinities:  the Religious Landscape of Flannery O’Connor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by John F. Owens sm
“There won’t be any biographies of me,” said the writer Flannery O’Connor “because lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.” This at least she did not get right, as her biography appeared a year ago, with this very sentence as its epigraph. It is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/?p=1200</link>
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		<title>I Did, I Created You</title>
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© by Bill Farrelly
One of the loveliest aphorisms I ever read was in an Anthony de Mello book and if you have never read any of his works, and you make the effort to now do so, you are in for a wonderful treat.
I cannot recall the name of the book and I am guessing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/?p=1205</link>
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		<title>Prayer- Essentially an Activity of the Will</title>
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by Fr John Kelly ocso
We often misunderstand the quality of our prayer and that of others because we identify good prayer with feelings. Perhaps we misunderstand Scripture when it says, “rejoice in the Lord always”, and Jesus tells us to “love God with our whole heart and soul”. The prodigal son probably felt sorry as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/?p=1208</link>
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