Often the words we use in casual conversation with others are the very words we might need to use with God
silent school
take a dozen of these thirty-second spots throughout the day, to breathe
just chatting
Fifth Gospel Living Vol II. I am inviting you to write, sharing one experience of God in up to 400 words.
try it (-:
you are growing beyond much of what has limited you earlier.
no distance
There is no distance between God and me. And that’s a simple fact not a tricky riddle.
recognition
which do you prefer, the dark night or the bright light?
you wouldn’t dance
I realised that my primary vocation was not to be a photocopy, but a unique creation in the divine image.
JB the day
A healthy happy human person is a sign-post that points to God.
true freedom
life in silence and prayer within a physical cloister enclosure might seem to some rather restricted and unfree.
an ultimate adventure
A Diocesan Priest belongs not in a monastery-cloister but in the neighbourhoods of the people.
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forty years on
It is forty years today since I was ordained priest in the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle in Timaru
not less than everything
I’m grateful to Catherine Fyfe and James van Schie, new Trustees who join Chris Fogarty, Kate Kearins and Catherine Gibbs.
the practice
We must stop using the term non-practicing in such an inaccurate and distancing way.
the rock
It’s sixty years next Monday since the closing of the three-year Second Vatican Council.
allergies away
even to share some of the mozzarella I’ve enjoyed making recently










