On Tuesday evening this week John’s life on earth came to a peaceful close. A couple of years ago before one Sunday Morning 8.30am Mass at Hawarden I noticed John and Edith arrive early as they often did and slip into the church.
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in faith and hope
You know my resting and my rising. You discern my purpose from afar, and with love everlasting you besiege me: In every moment of life or death, you are.
the day life began
Human life for too many people is an exhausting existence of grasping at whatever will bring pleasure for a night, or working at a project that will at best deliver only fleeting prosperity and glory.
the first Mass
181 years ago this weekend, 13 January 1838, the first Catholic Mass was celebrated on Aotearoa New Zealand soil. Bishop Pompallier had arrived in the country a couple...
Epiphany
This is the effect on the one who has encountered the person of Jesus. We are never again fully at home on earth, even in the fulness of all that our world has to offer. We are drawn to a greater light – and this is a sign that we are healthy.
resolutions
This is the last email for “Food For Faith for Advent 2018” subscribers. I thought you might appreciate a New Year encouragement.
Family & Sr. Wendy
“No matter how deep the love,
every human being is essentially a mystery.
art & beauty & life
One news report says that she lives in “isolation” but she would never say that of herself. As these brief clips below show the heart of her life was relationship with God and therefore she was never alone
love in action
“if we want to find the God who appeared as a child, then we must dismount from the high horse of our “enlightened” reason. We must set aside our false certainties, our intellectual pride, which prevents us from recognising God’s closeness…
on the road
The one who journeys with purpose is able to negotiate any obstacle. But the wanderer is forever rudderless, tossed by every whim of fashion in the sea of popular opinion.
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let’s talk
This is the conversation of friends, and this is the kind of constant conversation Jesus wants to have with us.
the answer
The evil spirit delights in convincing us that we are alone in our sin. Nothing could be more wrong.
our
If every person I encounter is my ticket to heaven, what will happen to me if I turn up without them?
relationship
Jesus is not referring to the hungry or homeless as the nameless poor. He gives them HIS name, HIS identity.
tempted ?
Temptation for the Christian is not simply an impulse towards evil over good.