friendship and inspiration

Sep 16, 2013

This week 180 of NZ’s diocesan priests gather in Rotorua for our third National Assembly. Five and ten years ago we gathered.

Last night’s Powhiri, liturgy and dinner was a wonderful beginning to these days of friendship, rest and inspiration with good input (from Fr. Timothy Radcliffe OP, John Allen Jnr, Cardinal Tom Williams and Msgr Peter Jeffrey).

It is good to be together.

Please keep us in your prayer.

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I like that. The world as the theatre of human history, that is, the world as the place where God and people meet and live together.

When the angel left Mary, the challenges and problems of this new era of her life had just begun.

Unbridled ambition is problematic and resentment is exhausting. Love, generosity and forgiveness really is foundational,

Rote learning was a norm in my primary school days, repetition of the times tables, two times two equals four, three times two

So simple that children who naturally and naively live with open eyes and ears get it, when we adults too often miss the point.