I want to share with Food For Faith readers a great grace, a sign of hope that I experienced this weekend in the Catholic community of the Hurunui. We are a small...
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must be more!
. Hugh Hefner has died. While it is unsurprising that many news reports of his death focus on his Playboy empire’s promotion of sexual promiscuity and pornography, it...
INFORM
The quarterly newsletter of the Catholic Diocesan newsletter INFORM was published today. This issue features three newly ordained priests for the diocese, updates on...
city (re)building
I have mentioned The Liturgy Guys a few times before. Their liturgy podcasts from St Mary of the Lake University in Mundelein have become essential formation material...
lake wobegon
One of the sections of this Food For Faith website is entitled "listen." In this age of computer movies and on-demand TV, listening as our ancestors did to radio...
saints today
A brief video reflection on earthquakes, church building and the call to live the life of a saint from the basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. Pilgrims come to this...
surprise journey
In the early 1980‘s I lived for six years of formation for priesthood at Holy Cross seminary in Mosgiel. In the late 1990’s when the number of seminarians was...
chosen
I'm leading a retreat for the priests of the Catholic dioceses of Auckland and Hamilton this week. Today's Gospel reading was timely for our group; Jesus calling the...
tasting beauty
Last weekend the Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch took the decision to restore their earthquake-damaged Cathedral. While a decision about the future of the...
Anglican Synod
I invite all Food For Faith readers to join with me in prayer for our friends the bishop and parishioners of the Anglican diocese of Christchurch who gather for Synod...
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the reality is
I am buffeted about by the expectations of others, and by my own disordered internal motivations
ready & willing
my work with FFF is now able to be more focussed on content and creating new resources
vulnerability exposed
We have realised that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented,
with full hearts
May we attain your promises, which surpass every human desire.
had enough ?
But remember where the chapter began: Elijah praying: Lord, “I have had enough. Take my life”