The quarterly newsletter of the Catholic Diocesan newsletter INFORM was published today. This issue features three newly ordained priests for the diocese, updates on...
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city (re)building
I have mentioned The Liturgy Guys a few times before. Their liturgy podcasts from St Mary of the Lake University in Mundelein have become essential formation material...
lake wobegon
One of the sections of this Food For Faith website is entitled "listen." In this age of computer movies and on-demand TV, listening as our ancestors did to radio...
saints today
A brief video reflection on earthquakes, church building and the call to live the life of a saint from the basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. Pilgrims come to this...
surprise journey
In the early 1980‘s I lived for six years of formation for priesthood at Holy Cross seminary in Mosgiel. In the late 1990’s when the number of seminarians was...
chosen
I'm leading a retreat for the priests of the Catholic dioceses of Auckland and Hamilton this week. Today's Gospel reading was timely for our group; Jesus calling the...
tasting beauty
Last weekend the Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch took the decision to restore their earthquake-damaged Cathedral. While a decision about the future of the...
Anglican Synod
I invite all Food For Faith readers to join with me in prayer for our friends the bishop and parishioners of the Anglican diocese of Christchurch who gather for Synod...
if you aspire…
It's Monday morning. As you head to a new work week, yesterday's "take up your cross" gospel reading might well express your feeling. For all of us work has it's tough...
the real work
Today I arrive home after spending the last three weeks at some remarkable gatherings. Vacation The first week I was a chaplain to 320 people of all ages from small...
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real food
“A doctrine that would exist like a nature reserve, separated from the daily world of faith, would be a renunciation of faith itself”
those dead days
There are moments many days, and minutes and even hours and sometimes days every week when we feel a bit dead.
face to face
Jesus is not God-far-from-us-up-in-the-heavens, but Jesus is God WITH us.
grandparents
You might like to share this post with grandparents who will appreciate some encouragement on this their feast day.
remembering
I was privileged to be asked to give the homily at the Mass of Thanksgiving of Fr. Isaac Fransen