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That was what, in 1966, brought the sisters of Dulwich Hill to Goonellabah, to a subtropical hillside adjoining the Nightcap Range. "There seemed to be the need for places of prayer in Australia at that time," recalls Sister Bernadette, now the prioress, who has seen three sisters buried in the high-walled garden. Prayer is the air that they breathe. It's what brings them from their cells with the toll of the bell at 5:10 each morning, and what shapes their day, spent mainly in silence. There's morning prayer, private prayer, thanksgiving prayer, Vespers, and streams...
...other parishes, while Sister Maria is preparing the monastery website to sell home-made rosary beads and stationery. (Three "extern" sisters, who live outside the enclosure, look after the church and do the monastery's shopping.) But the nuns are only ever a bell's toll away from prayer. It's what brought Sister Maria to the community as an 18-year-old in 1971. "I think it's very sad these days," she says. "People are distracted by all the noise and the bustle that's going on out there...
AUSTRALIAN JOURNEYS On the Offbeat Track Mission: Patrol At sea with the border watchers of Torres Strait The Gift of Prayer Behind the walls of a Carmelite monastery Speaking Stones Digging into the ancient past at Riversleigh Travelers' Rest A roadhouse oasis in the remote Northern Territory Wet and Wondrous Rafting the wild reaches of the Franklin River The Gospel Run Taking the church to the people of the Outback Press Gang Getting the nation's news out at the Australian Super Bowl Inside the myth-filled Wolfe Creek meteorite crater Unseen Gladiators Keeping the Melbourne Cricket Ground alive Hands...
...Zdenek Vojtísek of the Society for the Study of Sects and New Religious Trends. "A simple man sees a terrorist in a Muslim and a center of terrorism in a mosque." Since the mid-1990s, Czech society has grown somewhat more tolerant; two mosques and about six prayer halls have sprung up around the country, catering for the republic's roughly 20,000-strong Muslim population. But after 9/11, tolerance gave way to fears of militance, which the country's Muslims have worked to allay. "If there are any [militant] forces, they don't need the cover...
...train station I meet two American women from Boston who flew all the way here to pray for a sick relative. As the train lurches forward, one pulls out her rosary and whispers a prayer. I turn away, but am thankful that I've seen her, and that I've seen Lourdes. Even though I've had no vision, and drawn no conclusion, I know I haven't passed through this holy ground unchanged...