I have been feeling a bit (as they say) "off colour" for the past week or two. The relaxation of the retreat days during the Easter Octave probably enabled all the bugs...
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jubilee of mercy
a Year of Jubilee Whether the papacy of Pope Francis be long or (as he predicts) short, after just two years it is already possible to name the great themes of his...
come live fully
Happy Easter to all of you who follow Food For Faith here on the website and on Facebook. Ria Bancroft's Cathedral of the Sacrament Tabernacle Doors are in safe keeping...
a lenten lesson
In the peace of this Holy Saturday morning I have been thinking back over the past six weeks through the Lenten pilgrimage to Palm Sunday and the Holy Week liturgies....
divine embrace
Tonight the Good Shepherd Parish, Hurunui, celebrated the Holy Thursday Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper at the Community of the Beatitudes in Leithfield. There is a...
walking the walk
It is Holy Thursday morning. As I was at prayer this morning the sky became light and the sun rose above the horizon, a beautiful sunrise. Here was I contemplating...
forbidden?
I have just had an email from a friend informing me that any attempt to send a comment on Food For Faith is "blocked" or "forbidden." I didn't know this was happening,...
laugh more
Today is widely marked as April Fool's Day and already social media is flowing with some ingenious pranks. We have all been the "victim" of good-humoured jokes, and...
this Holy Week
With the celebration of Palm Sunday this weekend we enter the Holy Week journey through suffering and death to the resurrection of Easter morning. In this brief clip I...
in the pub
I was in a university pub last week with a good number of young adults for the monthly Theology on Tap session. My topic: Pope Francis, the Man and the Mission. You...
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abundance
Our confinement has given birth to new possibilities, new ways of living and of thriving that are even more satisfying than the way we existed before.
he tāngata
He aha te mea nui o te ao. He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata
the desert road
And so, we went about our lives distracted, pretending that we could control everything. The circumstances, however, spoiled our plans
food to last
“The sailor cannot see the north but knows the needle can”
let go the net
It is commonly wrongly thought that the call of God is at odds with our deepest human longings. But when we do set out on the paths that God has revealed, we discover that we are truly ourselves.