While many Catholics are familiar with the Angelus prayer, fewer know the Easter Anthem Regina Caeli. This prayer replaces the Angelus for the Easter Season, from...
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parish newsletter
The weekly newsletter for the Catholic parish of the Good Shepherd, Hurunui, is now uploaded at the parish website www.catholichurunui.co.nz.
Divine Mercy Sunday
Last Sunday I reflected on the significance of Easter Sunday morning for the future worship of Christians. These disciples could have chosen Thursday evening (the time...
retreat
Please pray for me, especially this week as I am on retreat. It is a great week for a retreat. The Church gives us eight days of Easter Day - the Easter Octave.So there...
take five for Easter
Full text of Pope Francis' Easter Vigil Homily. Â A suggestion for reading this... set five minutes when you know you won't be disturbed...turn off the music and commit...
Easter
He is risen indeed - Alleluia. Â Â An opportunity to reflect on the significance of Easter; not simply an historical event, not a mere resuscitation of a body, but an...
Alleluia!
Christ has Died - Christ is RisenRia Bancroft 1975-1977Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Christchurch - Tabernacle Doors
Rhema Interview
Interview about Holy Week and especially the Chrism Mass on Radio Rhema this...
Good Shepherd newsletter
The Good Shepherd parish newsletter for this Sunday has now been uploaded to the parish website at www.catholichurunui.co.nz
the angel of the Lord declared…
Today we celebrate the feast of the Annunciation.Take a moment to appreciate this Millet masterpiece. Even if you have never seen the image before, you will guess that...
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high ideals
If you took all the events recorded in the gospels and allocated hours to them (eg. wedding feast at Cana one day, Sermon on the Mount half a day, Jesus' encounter with the woman at the well an hour or two, and four days for the suffering, passion, death and...
here’s hoping
While some people might compulsively look on the bright side of any situation, such power of positive thinking is not the same as Christian hope. Positive thinking can be hard work and often ignores reality. Christian hope faces fear and understands that no situation,...
Alone? Not!
Both of my grandfathers were farmers, beginning their careers in the days when farmers followed teams of Clydesdale horses yoked together pulling ploughs across South Canterbury and North Otago countryside. I have no doubt that when they heard from today's gospel that...