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Lectio Divina - daily prayer with the scriptures
Homily Studio - weekly discussions on the sunday scriptures
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A Christchurch Press headline caught my attention this morning:Â "The Hottest Career paths for this year."Â I am a realist, so I didn't expect priesthood to rate in the top ten hot careers, but I had never imagined that my own priestly vocation would miss the cut on...
Last Sunday Pope Francis invited parishioners in one of his diocesan parishes to engage their imaginations in prayer. He then gave them a practical experience of this prayer. During the brief homily he invited the people: "...let us close our eyes and imagine that...
Introducing the weekly homily studio. Increasingly the internet has become an important tool for preachers in preparing their homilies and sermons. This essential research, partnered with the preachers personal intimacy with Christ, and pastoral and practical...
Since I was a young child I have been fascinated by whales. From age 8 to 18 I lived in Timaru where whalers were among the first European settlers. I did a number of school projects on the Timaru whalers and their prey, and on family trips visits to the Canterbury...
An email a short time ago from my bishop's office announced the death of Bishop John Mackey of Auckland. Â Bishop Mackey retired as Bishop of Auckland in 1983, and had been a priest for more than seventy years. When I heard the news of his death I took from my...