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Stations of the Cross

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 Contents - May 2008AD2000 May 2008 - Buy a copy now
Editorial: Re-evangelising young unchurched Catholics - Michael Gilchrist
Two changes: Bishop Jarrett explains upcoming Mass changes - Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
News: The Church Around the World
Summorum Pontificum: Benedict XVI's Latin Mass document: a parish priest's response - Fr Andrew Wise
Interview: Positive impact of Pope's decree on the Latin Mass - Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos
Green sisters: New-look US religious: Al Gore's latest 'eco-justice' disciples - AD2000 REPORT
Ballarat: Children's Spirituality Conference at ACU: not to be confused with religion! - Michael Gilchrist
FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: What are the basics of Catholic belief and practice? - Lucy Tucker
Magisterium: When is it infallible? - John Young
Youth: Eucharistic devotions: revival in Melbourne - Br Barry Coldrey
Letters: Church architecture - Terry Parkhouse
Letters: AIDS Prevention - Dr Arnold Jago
Letters: Altar rails - John Murray
Letters: Receiving Communion - Charles Haber
Letters: Stations of the Cross - John D. Wightman
Letters: Brisbane - Franklin J. Wood
Letters: Cosmic Liturgy - Grahame Fallon
Books: Irish journalist exposes 'Kathy's Story' book and movie as fabrications - Gary Brady (reviewer)
Books: NEWMAN'S APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE by Laurence Richardson - Philip Trower (reviewer)
Books: THE REALM: An Unfashionable Essay on Converting England, Aidan Nichols OP - Tim Cannon (reviewer)
Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
Reflection: How to recover a sense of the sacred at Mass - Bishop Arthur Serratelli

As a recent report in the Catholic press (enclosed) indicates, there are no Stations of the Cross in the newly completed Church of the Holy Spirit, Gungahlin, in the Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese, which was officially opened on 14 February 2008.

As the report states, 'Rather than the traditional Stations of the Cross, the church displays the story of the cross designed by Sr Jenny Ryan [a parish team member] and reflecting on the words commitment, judged, accepted, supported, cradled and recognised'.

My wife and I feel downhearted at this decision as we were under the impression that the Stations have been an essential sacred feature of all Catholic churches. I am sure other Catholics would feel much the same as we do.

JOHN D. WIGHTMAN
Hughes, ACT

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Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 21 No 4 (May 2008), p. 14

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