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Christmas Greetings to you all. There are many things that I could share in this Christmas day clip, but the image that keeps coming to mind is the Christmas dinner table around which people will gather today with family and friends. A few decades ago the people...
The first reading from today's liturgy is perhaps best known because it features in Handel's Messiah: Let's take a moment to examine the message which seems to be a bit of a violent prophecy of the coming of the Messiah. In an Advent sermon in 1928 the German pastor...
I was a student in the seminary when I was first introduced to Handel's great oratorio, Messiah. This work is widely considered to be a master-work both of composition and of communication of the Old Testament prophecy and New Testament experience of the Messiah. It...
If you are following the daily liturgy gospel readings this week you'll notice a couple of repeats. Yesterday's gospel from Luke is the account of the encounter between the angel Gabriel and Mary and we will hear this again on Sunday. This is the moment we call the...
This year the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has celebrated 150 years of caring for the poor, the sick and the vulnerable in New Zealand. Throughout the country and in every other part of the world the Vinnies’ reputation is one of closeness to those who suffer most...