In my Epiphany homily on Sunday I took a guess at what Pope Francis might preach in his Epiphany homily. A few hours ago Pope Francis celebrated the Mass for the Feast...
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life in the light
Today, January 6 is the actual date of the feast of the Epiphany, but in New Zealand, USA, and many other countries the feast is transferred to the nearest Sunday to...
Magi journey
Here T.S. Eliot (who died 49 years ago today) reads his Epiphany poem, Journey of the Magi. 'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey,...
cure for dis-ease
One of the disadvantages of living just west of the international dateline is that priests' and popes' (I'm enjoying shifting that apostrophe while we can) blogs don't...
creatively Bach
Perhaps the greatest musical family of all time was the Bach clan who over a couple of hundred years produced fifty significant composers and musicians including Johann...
beauty ever new
I have been thinking about beauty all year. It was only a few hours into the new year when an email from Jason (who created this foodforfaith website and looks after...
beauty
A brief email conversation with a friend a couple of days ago got me thinking about beauty. It is commonly commented that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but...
a new year of faith
For the thirteen months of the Year of Faith, this Icon of Mary the Mother of the Church has travelled the parishes and schools of the diocese of Christchurch. The icon...
dawn of new year
It is the dawn of the new year here in New Zealand. Shortly I will head up to the church to celebrate the first Mass of the year at which I will pray especially for...
who needs tv
Who needs TV when you can find videos like this one online. In 2006 English historian Simon Schama presented a BBC series on the Power of Art. In each of the eight...
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together
It is my experience that when I set out to find friends I fail finding the attempt frustrating and exhausting. However when I seek to live fully in relationship with Jesus Christ, friends arrive, and I have no doubt are given to me by God.
full immersion
Our adult life of faith, actively seeking maturity in following Christ, demands as a first step the reawakening of a desire to be fully and authentically human.Â
leisure at last
Do you ever find that you long for a break from the busyness of life, the weekend comes and goes, and on Monday you wake with the feeling that you need another weekend?
the divine whisper
“take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace”.
humble in prayer
It is a beautiful thing to stand and sit and kneel with others in liturgy. While our voices pray in unison the prayers and responses of the Mass, so too our bodies stand together, and sit together and kneel together.