Many of you will read this on Friday morning 8 December, the feast of the Immaculate Conception. I am sitting down to write late in the evening of the 7th, the feast of...
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waiting for…
Today's reflection gives new Christchurch bishop-elect Paul Martin a good mention, but the post is not about him. There's also a mention of children counting the sleeps...
bishop for ChCh
It is with great joy that we learn this morning that Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Paul Martin SM as the tenth bishop of Christchurch. Bishop-elect Paul comments on...
St. Nick & Santa
Make sure there are no children reading over your shoulder before I tell you that a couple of years ago I visited the grave of Santa Claus. I was in Bari in southern...
playfulness
Have you ever thought of prayer as child-like playfulness. There are some similarities and today's gospel in which Jesus encourages us to be childlike gives us an...
stay awake!
Happy Advent! For those of us who follow the life of the church we can also say Happy New Year since today, the first Sunday of Advent, is the first day of the new...
a new beginning
The daily liturgy readings this past week have presented a potentially depressing theme. Today is the last day of the Church year before tomorrow's new beginning for...
ultimate journey
Welcome to Food For Faith for Advent. Even though we don't begin Advent until this Sunday I'm thinking ahead, especially because I'm celebrating Mass and preaching at...
NZ Vocations
For the past twenty-four hours the NZ Vocations Directors have been meeting in Christchurch. We are each appointed by our diocesan bishops to encourage youngish people...
in God’s time
If you are following the daily liturgy gospel readings this week you will notice a bit of a potentially depressing theme. It's the last week of the Church year before...
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Too often I catch myself in action wrongly thinking and living as if the life that I seek is hidden from me.
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Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but an encounter
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I remember a wise theology teacher asking: “do we live on the earth or in the earth?”
into the deep
daydreaming fills your mind and your worries morph into authentic prayer from the heart.