Warm Greetings and Happy Australia Day to all Food For Faith readers in Australia! It has been a privilege and a pleasure to spend this year's Australia Day in...
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rain
Here in the Hurunui district of Canterbury, the Good Shepherd parish is suffering a lack of rain. By the end of every February into March, the end of the New Zealand...
Filipino farewell
Yesterday the Philippines farewelled Pope Francis after three remarkable days of friendship. It is worth searching the visit online for some of the video clips and...
point to Jesus
Many artistic representations of John the Baptist show him as a ‘pointer’. He is pointing away from himself and towards Jesus. This popular image (as in this section...
dreaming & life
If we don't dream, we are not living! Take five minutes to savour this delightful and inspiring video clip of Pope Francis speaking earlier today about the importance...
Traces Jan 2015
One of the highlights of my monthly reading is the Traces magazine of the Communion & Liberation community. A couple of months ago the decision was taken to no...
loss & hope
When I passed St. Joseph's Papanui yesterday morning there was very little remaining of the church building, just the doors through which so many have passed seeking...
Filipino faith
Pope Francis is in the Philippines today and over the past couple of hours he has been celebrating the first Mass of his three-day visit in the Cathedral Basilica of...
shop – for faith
I'm not a great fan of supermarket shopping. I do it because I like to eat. But my aim with each visit is to get in and to get out as quickly as possible. If I took a...
St. Joe’s Papanui
It is almost four years since the most destructive of the Christchurch earthquakes. Recovery continues to be slow with some people still having to use portable bathroom...
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a room alone
“All of humanity’s problems stem from our inability to sit quietly in a room alone”
the beginning
We reduce Christian faith to a pretty gentle existence in a comfortable church, a few minutes every day to pray,… It’s not much like the adventure that Abram embraced.
truth & freedom
The child without thinking reaches out and grasps hold of maybe a finger and holds on. Perhaps they are thinking that if they hold on they will be more secure?
looking up
The serpent is not a bad creature – just an early ancestor of advertising which promises us the world, offering us the power and popularity of a god if only you eat this, do this, buy this, own this, wear this, shop here…
behind closed doors
The Church was born in closed rooms. It was in these confines where Jesus broke through locked doors and fearful hearts to form and now (in these days) to re-form the church.