They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember...
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abundance
There's nothing like good conversation to refocus the mind and the heart. Yesterday I had one such conversation which focussed me again on what is real. A couple of...
Vocations
Today is the Fourth Sunday of Easter, also known as Good Shepherd Sunday (note the Gospel reading) and marked throughout the church as Vocations Sunday. As Vocations...
meet Paul
In today's first reading we meet Saul of Tarsus on his way to Damascus to persecute Christians. These verses from the Acts of the Apostles (which makes up our daily...
power of words
A few days ago the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King passed quietly. While the anniversary is significant in the process of movement towards...
kerygma
It was a pleasure this morning to celebrate Mass for the people of Lincoln and Leeston. Both communities continue to suffer the effects of the earthquakes with Lincoln...
to be holy…
I have been savouring the early paragraphs of Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortation "Rejoice and be Glad" which was published on Monday. I am encouraged and inspired by...
rejoice & be glad
Late last night New Zealand time Pope Francis' new Apostolic Exhortation "Rejoice and be Glad" (Gaudete et Exsultate) was published. Those who were looking for a dense...
mercy
In the Jubilee year 2000 Pope John Paul initiated this Second Sunday of Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday. In his homily on that day as he canonised a Polish nun Faustina...
thinking ahead
It may have been a coincidence that Fr. Richard J. Hauser SJ died at 10:10 on Tuesday morning of this week, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Holy Spirit was smiling...
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take up the cross
The cross-bearer is a Christ-bearer, and is able to walk erect with Christ in confident and fearless hope.
win the crown
We get to choose the crown we wear. We can spend our earthly life striving for the earthly crown
scourging
Most of our personal physical suffering happens because people who are themselves desperately seeking survival speak and act without awareness
in a garden
Let’s enter the Gethsemane scene engaging each of your physical senses: what can you see, touch, taste, hear and smell.
sorrowful
Sometimes in the middle of the night, even without waking, I feel the cross with the figure, the dead Christ, and remember