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"BBJigious writers often portray human life as a joumey that a person travels.

Human life is a way- the story of the journey passage or adventure" (John Elias writing in "Christian Adulthood: A Catechetical Resource," 19841985).

"Most persons in their faith journey need companions . . . We cannot be teachers, guides or saviours for others. But what we can all do is be companions; we can go along and share the journey and help as best we can with our limited vision and love. " (John Elias writing in "Christian Adulthood: A Catechetical Resource," 1984-1985.)

r-"Fro-,,.-tbe-word -go-a -

maJie sense of the U/Orld," said Dr Jean Haldane. She is the retired dean of the Episcopal Lay Academy of the Episcopal Diocese in California.

Tbe cblld's sense of curlosUy carries over inlo aduJtbood, Ms Haldane said. In � JO years as a religious educator, she bas discovered that questions about "our search for meaning• always attract inlff'f!St. To encourage people to reflect on their personal spiritualjourney, she sometimes asJis peopk to draw connections betu."""' their OU.'n life btstory and the salvation history found In the Bibk. Sometimes she does so by using Ibis exercise: First she asJis parttcipants to tbinJ, of their llt'l!S as a book u.'ith three chapter beadings.

One U'Oman suggested these chapters.

• "Pre-revolution": u.·ben she u.,as younger and

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cbokes; • "Revobdwn":�collegeyearswbensbeu.>as rebel1Jous and impetuous; • "Post-revolution": after she married and became a mother, a time she felt mellow, remising therf! was more than one side to a question.

Second, group members are aslled to approach the Blbk and salvation history as if it were a book with just three chapter beadings.

"Most peopk need help" doing Ibis, Ms Haldane said, so she might starl with God's creation as the first chapter beading.

A second chapter, she conltnued, might be the story of Israel and the propMts. The third chapter might embraa, the church, Ms Haldane said, "anything to do u'ith us nou.•."

She remembers a man at a large conference u•bo u>as pleased u.'ith bis chapter beadings:

Waiting for a magic moment • of adulthood "When will that big day get here?"

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Jesuit Father Walter Burghardt reflects on the path he has travelled as a Christian, a priest and a man in "Seasons That Laugh or Weep: Musings on I used to poodcr tbooc the Human Jourqucsdoos, bedt when I was ney." For the jour- The image of -1,te as Journey· ts very appealmg to adults. rel,g1ous educator Jean about 18 or 20 It ,ccmcd to ney to move Haldane says. -It suggests there's more to me than meets the eye; there's a spmtual me at that 91-'alershcd point "rm movmg forward and I have choices. ·· she says. ,here tn life that I dcscn-.d all the ahead, you have to d,mens,on "It also suggestsare nght'i and pnvllcgc, anpaths taken and no( tal<en " "let go of the level of life where you are now, so as to live more fully," he says. He sees a • The twing,, of panic felt willingness to nu.kc adjust with a feeling of boundla.. to willingness ollcn in one's 40s - when mcnts along the way. sclf-confid<:ncc m ourabwty Our joumC),; an: too poten· the days oC life an: no longer change as a link to to control and direct our tlalJy glorious to follow the counted in terms of tbc destiny. growth. It is essenBy example oC a couple I know. years since binh but or the But, as we encounter dJ.s.. tial to the Christian Shortly before that first and years until death, Theodore tressing events - happy pilgrimage "to go perhaps only tnp to Europe, • The a,:ntual accq,tancc CYCnts 100 - gradually WC through a self. engesbac they told me, "We haven't and samuring oC one's unidiscover that everything looked into it much. We'll que life journey in the midemptying more or isn't under our control.

Just drive around when WC to-latc 50s and 60s. less like Christ's Manythtng, happen "to" us. get there and sec what own emptying," Adulthood ollcn seems to Then the journey o( adult· nappcns. .. be marlccd by the sights and hood becomes a lesson m he writes. "Time I write this article Sometimes adult Ufccan be and again, from surrounded by maps compared to the same scene sounds oC change - new deciding when 10 act and dilfcrcnt scspons,biliwhen lO rtteivc, when to womb to tomb, and guidebooks. l.ay- on a mounwn road viewed jobs, 11cs, a growing &mlJy An speak and when to 11.stcn, you have to let go. ing plans for a trip now from ooc angle, then opportunity for growth may when to accept the gn.

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I've gathered up another Al ach way,klc we A d t�� le cmcrgc as � attempt to ciousncss oC ochers and oC resources, checked ponder anew questions understand what a given God !l�::r,t� the a family finances. never answcttd once and dw!gc really entails for us.

An adult's Ufc is always in we refuse, he els c18d poirrtsofin1Br- for all the process oC dc:Yclopmcnt, And it is simlbr in our lives What docs the future hold? adds, if "we clutch est to-· calcula18d as new events arc tumal to Will it be better tlW1 my oC faith. As wc move from a our yesterdays like driving time and opportunltics for growth childhood lilith nwturcd by debated whether to past1 LJnus , blan'"et, we take the scenic or Will my rdatlonshlpo with parents to adult lilith, we But this requires slufting refuse to grow." direct route - aa part bmily and friaxls get better? may � What diffcrmcc gcus from tllDC to time, He suggests that a of an effort to make The study o( thousand, o( docs lilith nu.kc for mywotlc taking 51ock.

Through it all, we can cxpc:ricoccs life? For my social life? In way of harmonis- sure the trip is "worth people's what more marun: ways am it". discoYcr God, the source oC rc.cals that adult life is a ing past and presI invited by my faith 10 serve all life. faith is a g,ft for ent is to adapt Although rm planning a journey marll:ed by ccruin others? vacatlon trip acro65 Amcr- relatively common eteseeing th� changeless, creative/y to new ica. 11us setting a1so seems men ts Such questions can chal- vibrant Ufc of God all along 1Cfi8C us to a new undcrchallenges. (Pau- appropr1a,c tor wr1t1ng the challenging route of The brneesweer event of sun<hng - and that can adulthood. list Press, 997 these rdlcctions on adult •leaving the parcnUI home Signal growth.

And blth bears the promise Macarthur Boule- life as an ongoing journey and SdtU,g out on your own; that it 15 all '',!;orth it .. CYCn The counc oC adult Ufc is vard, Mahwah, For whether ii·s a i<klay vacatlon or a hfc oC 30, 50 or • The jolt, odcn sn your 30s, though hfc's mcarung may also marked by the interplay N.J. 07430. 70 years the journey needs m comi.ng to tams With bctwccn control and acccp- only be rcvcal<d in dnbs and $8.95.) thoughtful planning and a personal limtutioos, drabs aloog the way.

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• "Camera":Jesussbowsusu.,l,atGodulU,e;' • "Action": 'That's us," the man said. "We're supposed to go inlo the world and taJie actton• on the Christian message.

Fina!Jy, Ms Haldane invites people to COINpare their tu.'O ltsts. "Peopk see antartng connections," she said. Typtu,lly, they� by saying they can see rej7,>ctums of their ou., life in the larger Blbk star;·.

Is your life, u.'itb its conltnuing search for meaning, its changes and dn·elopments reflected in the biblical tory of sab,attonl ' • Wbat are some special times of creation and neu.• beginnings in )'OUr story?

• What u·ere some times of notnmrlby der.wopment and gr-ou.'lb, 111,e tbe time of the Israelites' ex-odus from Eg)ptl • Hat·e there been limn of tkath and resurrec.

Non in your life!

'When will everyone know, without a doubt. that the threshold of adulthood has finally been crossed, that legally and otherwise, I am a man?"

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a""'.Q'.""cblld "'."'."u-tryl.".'":' :n-g-to-_:JX»ukri _=n _ g=posslbk : ==co:,,.=IIIUnunls = ==a:nd=ca=,_,. = = = =="Ll::::g . " g :t:to=tbe=U!Orld :_:;--;===========,--;life = .: �th s�::tbe=C �..-=tor=ltrl�n:gs�U:h

ached to that lughcr state o(

hwnan life 1:no'O,-n as adult hood.

It didn't rally mana that 15UIJ felt Ille a boy I wanted the prerogatives. tho c and tndefirute vague "11ung.o", that adult, had and <lid

To me, u was all pcrf<ctly

logical I deserved to be called an adult, I had lrved the required number of )-cat'<, lgdn ·, p Looking bac I thmI.. I w:u a bnle th Alla 211. It "' not uncommon v.tlcrc I

grew up to hear rather wizened veteran, of hfc' hattl

call 30- or 40-yo.r·

old men 'bo) • ln fact. 1 knew a wnman who. rdc:mng to ha <on aid "The boy too the

pickup on down to the store." nund that "the boy" was about 45.

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Anyway. I kept waiung for the magical moment when adulthood "'OU!d nu.kc Its I appearance. I gue thought " would sort o( pull mto town one day, llkr the �Unebus.

I kept waiung and thinklng about it

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• About how woodcrful not �Ing accountable to

another hv1ng soul wa.s going 10 be;

• About how, if a pcnon oC the adult pcnuasion wanted 10, be could just Sii down one day and do nothing.

• About how, rn the basic g,vc-and·Ukc of everyday life, thctt would be YCry llnlc left to learn, • Or, if thctt was much left to learn, nobody could nu.kc you learn it if you didn't want to - and wby would you want to anfW2Y? I ,.... cspccialJy loolong forward to knowing all the nght thing., adults should szy in acry siruauon. The dc\>clopmcot of true ......

<lorn I kncv,., would Ukc • fcv. fC2l"' I "'OU!d settle al fir..t for i.nov..11111 how 10 f'CC08JU>C the punch WIC ID my naghhout' joke, so as 10 know when 10 lau¢,.

And "'OU!ds>'t It be ruce to ha.re adult tn 1ght and aJuh knowledge with up UI )uungct folk.s the r.utks1 I '9,,":1.: pretty 5Utt

ie joumey �f faith, like joumev of life, calls on stians to change and to "'· But what kind �f

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dults are fascinated adult of faith because it pey at a spiritual dimension life and suggests that 's personal future holds 11ise, Jean Haldane. an ;copalian religious edu:,r for 30 years, tells narine Bird. Ms Haldane of her experiences in ling adults to identify the rs the Gospel is linked r daily lives.

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An educator who !us worked with adults t r 30 }'C2t", Ms Haldane ,.s

By convinced that e,·ery Chrl tian' vocation Katharine gro...-s from a bith that conunucs to ma.tu.re Bird from a lifelong quest � r Adults find "the

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appealing," said religious educator Dr Jean Haldane. waited I .,.,-,tdtcd. 1,i"tl< I "It suggests heodore Hengesbach «..OU.kl lam aboUt bon� JO there's more to me adult 17' w2t Ing adult I , busy planning a vacathan meets the thotl¢,t if I g<11 too um! rJ 1, working with maps there's a eye; spir'9t'21Ung. adulthood woulc I travel guides, when he dimension." kind of hp '" uru,o<tccd down to write about the itual throu¢, an open ..'Ul<loV< The image of a iour,It vears as a time of ney also suggests to "=ncrc �.'. .they offer a choice adults that 'Tm movmg "'t"'-'l or scenic routes forward and I have ODO choices, there are I � a period of ti� About tlu point you'rt paths taken and not II' views from differi probably apcctin8 to taken," she added in an t i es of life's ng that suddenly it all m>d< reality. interview.

•dulthood would be W<c all that. How eise 1.. '0U.ld 1t bc1 So I ..,-.,,ed. And .,iuk I

sense, that one day ;,dull·

hood pulled \010 clcal ,icW

and I knew aactly "'hat 11 looked like But ti did01 happen quite that way What I did ralisC is tb,I bccocrung an adult is not • moment in tlmc. I dl!<i> vcrcd it's a long. ottcn con·

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John Castelot tells

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Jty s round-the-clock � of studying the Torah fuSlng process - pcrhaP' I other books of the process that OCYcr cndS- Bui le · Drawing on its JewJust achieving that rcalil'uoo im,)l.al a long. confu" �· Christianity from beginning has sb essed ing process, I )carnC(I thJl • adulthood doesn't mcall valueot Ollgomg educacardrcc llvin8, not by a lo<!(! I and for its adult shot.

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fully and pcnooally ot,,10"' that adulthood � to th< fullcs< means form�' thousand pcnctnttnl! qu<" lions and � 10 1J>< wtth a handful of unpcrf«' answers. ow, wbcn f-,; alJOUI 18 or 20, I figuttd u=• tJ,ood that much to this adul d bwrncss. and anywaY, r I have all the answers

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of the Episcopal Lay Academy in San Francisco, Ca.lifomia, and Jn.-cs in Seattle, Washmgton.

In seminars, she oficr, a.sl<.s people to "tdl me about your religious journey." Adults usually find the question unusual but rivcting.

She recalled a man who Ulked about a painful work experience where

he felt he had been unfairly treated. The man, who felt bitter and demeaned, questioned God's justice.

But, in discussing the

situation, Ms Haldane said, the man gained an msight mto lus own journey of bith, realising that "God saw me througti

thaL I kept on � even though I was mad at God."

undcrstandmg She consider.; it important to hdp adults draw connections between thett bith and their ordl nary m-cs and to ,denufJ. way> they already are Jn.mg as Omstians. ''1be common tlung I hear from adul1" ,, 'I'm not a good Oirisltan ·; Ms Haldan added. She is cominccd many Chris· tians don't rcal.Lse that actmues they already arc can;mg out in their daily

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"'""' arc of putung their bith into acu n.

Thus, she often as people to think of a per· son they have served and vice vasa.

On reflection, she explained, people bqiin to rcaJisc thdr ministry wes plaa: "in all of life: at home, at work, In the: community, with the bin· Uy and with strangcrS." To help adults make connections bc:twttn life and bith, Ms Hali:laM is apt to use an exercise which mO\'CS from the common human journey to the particular journey of each person. She out· hned four steps that arc part of this cxcrcisc:.

She begins by asking people to ddYC into their pa.st history - pcrh2ps to describe: their position in the f:unlly as a duld and then to ponder what was good and what was problematical about that experience. The goal here, she cxpwncd, is to build trust by Uking par· tidpants back to a nonthreatening cxpcnencc.

Second, she paro . ipants ''What did you 10\.., to do gro ...mg upr· This chert varred responses, "from cbrnbmg trees, to sewing. to pulling cluldren out of a canal .• Her aim is to help identify participant what they ""JOY doing.

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some expenence when they changed. At this pomt in the exercise, people often move away from experiences of the dlsunt past to speak of a more recent and "deeply rehgiou experience," Ms Haldane said Someum 11 invotv the I of a parent, a child or a <pO

Often people discover that "the ume of anguish was also a time for growth in understanding their faith," sh said

The fourth step tm'ON v..nung a personal obctu· ary. People usually react to tlus step with hcsita· uon, smiles and unc:tSJ · n But ,tlusapurposc. to get people to say wlut they "-"Ould IJke their hle to stand for and wlut qual,11

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loped which Illa). ble those of Christ.

As they share thetr cxpcric,nccs, adults bcgm to sec that their life cnwls a journey - one not on!) tied to the past and pres

cnt, but • in th future 100," the rchg,o edua • tor said Haldane nukes ,t a potnt 10 respect people' nttds and fee� She nc-u forces people; • 1 challenge them to try new tlung:s and to sec that thetr �· WU· qucly thor< ..

She conduded "As an educator all my tit< I tried to people in 6.ndrng hope that hle tu., ,gnificance and mc:anmg ••

A house of study and a house of prayer

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By

Father John Caste/at Tbe Dead Sea Scrolls conJain all sorts of wrlttngS: texts of the books of the Bible, rommenlaries on them, tbe tules and traditions of the Qumran

rommunlJy wbicb produced tbe scrolls.

The saolJs reflected the intense, conlinuous study tbal took ptaa, In tbe rommunlty For Qumran badfonned originally, not long before the time of Christ, in reoctwn to wbat Us � considered tbe rom,ption of the temple clffID'. A usu,per bad taken over the office o/ the blgb priest, Ibey charged, and the result was a general deterloraJion of temple perwnnel.

Having cut tlJetnulvesofffrom wbat bad been the a!1llre of their lives, tbe liturgy cdebraud at the Temple, Qumran's � bad to find another centre of Interest. 7bey found it In the Bible, and especially In the Tomb, the Bibk � first jive books.

Day and night the Qumran people studied these books, rejl«ted and romtnenU>d on tbtml. During the day when most were engaged in manual labour, some uoere assigned to study. At night, a third of the rommuntty u.w busy wUb tbe centTaJ task of study In a way. this u.w a sort of Intensive synagogw enterprise. For the synagogue, wbiJe U was a house

God uw the a!1llre of the communily's life and there !LW no end of mining Us rlcbes. 7bis u.w,s a thoroughly adult ente,prise.

The first Christians continued Ibis proctice. Wbal is preserved now as our liturgy of the Word u.w,s

for tbe earliest Christians the occasion for continued and continuous intellectual and spiritual enricbment.

In a summary of life In tbe early cburcb, Luke teJJs us: 'They devoted tbemsdves to the a{)OSlles' Instruction and tbe communal life" (Acts 2:42).

So Important was Ibis constant, consd-Ous growth in Christian wulentanding and living tbal when tbeapostles werefaad wttb a choke between admfnistrabon and teocbtng. St Peter spoke up. '1t is not rlgbt for us to neglect the word of God In order to wait on tables" (Acts 6.2). t Paul's whole life was dedicated to the Instruction of bis adult converts, and be was never content witb what be bad taught tbem in pn,paration for their baptism. Stnce be could not stay wttb any one group very long, be used /etten to conlinue their deveJopmenl. 1bese tptstles were read to the rommunily at tbe Jilurgy and st-*«' furtber dlsatssk>n among Us members.

Cbrlstian life u.w a growth process and growth is never jinisbed. Paul constantly UJ'8«I people to ntmlt! even greaJer progress.

AU of tbis involved aduas. The word was preocbed to aduJls, aduJls acapted ti and began to live the Cbrlstian life. It involved ronlinued effort to plumb tbe mystery of Cbrlst, wbu:b is lnexbm1stlbk In ti self and In its imp/icalk)ns for liwlg.

Cbrlstian life was and is a S41rlous, adult ronam.

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A nucleus of ight p ople comprisinq Marist Bro hers eil, Evin and Tony, Dominican Sisters Mary and Regina a d lay fol .Jan en Murphy, Doubleview, Jeff O'Dea, arv y and Stephen Strack, Wood ands have put together an appealing and what turned out to be a most satisfying package d al for 17 t nagers who came from all parts of P rth and as ar away as Harv y.

There are seven other similar proj cts run y the Marist Broth s, around th southern Australia.

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of Bour e in SW they wo among the Aborigin I peopl , in Victoria with handica chil r n, i gl rent chi dr n and in suburban elbourne 'th migrant children.

'There is a Gap ntre in Alice Sprin s which is

r al int r st young pl hav in a community lif -style plus being of rvic o Opie, particularly the disadvantag . So we as ed ours I s: Who are he disadvantaged in Perth?"

DOD Jeff, Stephen and Broth r ii re familiar with the Victorian Mari t Summ r Projects so th approached the arist Community for heir king an support in Perth. h ived nd

who are involved through th ir ewman/ arist links, th ight day camp has be n nthu ia icall voted a reat succ I h phi! ophy behind th camp was to firstly exp ri nee community ife, "which includes pray r, living and praying og th r and su rtmg one another," said Broth r ii.

"S condly, to create an awareness of less priviI people in the com· munity and thirdly to I arn and disco r a bit mor a ut P rth and the area we liv in as well as ours Iv s," said Brother ii.

There were people wor ing at s v n diff rent v nue for s ve al ours daily; they would th n return o the community ba e at Sorrento.

T e group split up and worked at Holyoake (alcohol and drug dependent centr ), a women's r fuge at Frem ntle, with the Aboriginal fring dw llers at Swan Vall y, th Basan ouses of the Slowl arning Children's Group (SLCG}. the d Pau centre in John Str t, P rth, th Littl Sister of the Poor, GI ndalou h, nd th Catholic Youth Care in Aberd n Str t, P rth who look ft r horn I youth.

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wor eel hard physica ly," said Broth r ii.

"At GI ndalough they helped the old peo I but in pl ces Ii e th men's refuge and drop-in centre, it was more of an awareness raising for our people.

"Each on of the team was at one of th v nu s in a supportive capacity."

Sister Mary Ryan OP, said "when they returned each ay ev ryone nt a lot of tim telling stories; this for th m was an uni ding mechanism. If som n had a bad d y say at th d Paul c nt e or the refuge, it was a ma er of unburd ning.

"Being faced with an un ttling new situation is important because it challeng s you to di cov r a lo about yourself," she said.

'Wh n we returned w kept a personal journal of the workplace and th community," said Brother eil.

"In it we record ny experi nces, fee Ii n s or emotions we had experi need eith r at wo or

to put on a int llectually handica group at Santa Maria coll

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Sir.Jean Marc Lenoir {The Record January 22) raises an important issue about people who are divorced and remarried and who wish to receive communion.

Some of these couples may not have be n granted a decree of nullity but may be convinced that their first marriages were null and void.

They make a conscience d cision and d receive communion.

One priest may consid r their case and re ctmg their d cision give them communion. He may need to explain his action to his congregation if the coupl are well known.

Another priest may cons id r their case and ref us to give them communion. They are naturally upset.

What we have here · s not only a pro lem facm couples. We have a rio s problem as a Church.

Some dioceses have tried to so ve the pro em by designating a priest to whom such couple can be referred.

The designated priest does not hav any authority to give permission for the coup e to receiv communion. or has he the authority to or priest to give communion to th coupl . d s not Perhaps this is why our archdioce d signate such a pr" st.

The problem remains and som Catholics r disgusted that Church authority has I ft som coup s in such a mess.

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