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Lectio Divina - daily prayer with the scriptures
Homily Studio - weekly discussions on the sunday scriptures
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Just a few hours ago in Rome Pope Francis created a group of new cardinals from many of the geographical peripheries of the world including New Zealand and Tonga. This brief video clip shows Cardinal John Dew at the ceremony seated, and a little later with the pope...
Yes, there was a Saint Valentine. In fact it seems there were many early Christian martyrs named Valentine. But people do not think of these saints when they celebrate St. Valentine’s Day. February 14 is a more superficial celebration of ‘romantic love’, popularised...
It is early in the morning here in Hamilton New Zealand, and I am appreciating the opportunity while in the city for Bishop Steve Lowe's ordination to stay with my family who I don't get to see often enough. It is dawn and I am sitting on their deck with a Breviary, a...
Thirty-five years ago this morning (12 February 1980) I woke for the first time as a seminarian discerning a call to diocesan priesthood for the diocese of Christchurch. Â I had arrived at Holy Cross Seminary in Mosgiel just before 5pm the previous afternoon. Â At the...
After my ordination to the priesthood my first appointment was as assistant priest to the parish of Greymouth on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. I remember some parishioners returning from a three month journey to Europe and one night over a larger group...