At this weekend's liturgy we spend more time than usual listening to the scriptures. There's an extra gospel reading right at the beginning of Mass with the palm...
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Palm Sunday
It's Palm Sunday this weekend, the day that marks the end of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week. You will notice in the Palm Sunday gospel that people are shouting in...
never 2 L8 4 God
Today's first reading continues the Abraham story from verse 3 of Genesis chapter 17. It's a shame that verse 1 has been omitted since it contains a significant detail:...
realignment
With my new appointments I am appreciating the opportunity to be available for group reflection sessions. After a couple of sessions last week in one Christchurch...
“I AM” not I was
Many people who received Christian baptism as children today have little contact with the worship and life of their faith community. Their absence is a great loss for...
relationship
I heard a great little homily yesterday morning. I suspect the priest didn't think he was being particularly inspiring, but I was encouraged and moved by his words. In...
greatest journey
Today's first reading tells of a mountain-top encounter between God and Moses. God tells Moses to head back down the mountain because the people are in the process of...
friendship in faith
A couple of times each year I take part in the dialogue of the Anglican Roman Catholic Commission of Aotearoa New Zealand (ARCCANZ). This dialogue is made up of half a...
in great company
It was a delight to spend time last night with five of our six seminarians for the diocese of Christchurch at Holy Cross Seminary in Auckland, and later in the evening...
now & not yet
When we hear about the Kingdom of God most of us think of a future reality, the eternal life we are invited to share with God when our earthly life is complete. This...
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take up the cross
The cross-bearer is a Christ-bearer, and is able to walk erect with Christ in confident and fearless hope.
win the crown
We get to choose the crown we wear. We can spend our earthly life striving for the earthly crown
scourging
Most of our personal physical suffering happens because people who are themselves desperately seeking survival speak and act without awareness
in a garden
Let’s enter the Gethsemane scene engaging each of your physical senses: what can you see, touch, taste, hear and smell.
sorrowful
Sometimes in the middle of the night, even without waking, I feel the cross with the figure, the dead Christ, and remember