Yesterday I had the privilege of taking part in the Funeral Mass and burial rites of a much-loved Christchurch woman. Wendy died early last week decades too young at...
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together in faith
I am privileged to count as a friend Archbishop David Moxon who this week completes his term as the director of the Anglican Centre in Rome and the Archbishop of...
facing reality
Today I'm at one of the many very beautiful cemeteries of the Hurunui. We the family and friends of one who has died, have gathered here in Waikari to bury him. When we...
Inform June 2017
A Monastery garden, Ancient Order of Malta in Christchurch, news from the parishes of the diocese, diocesan events,,, Â You can read the latest issue of the magazine of...
Sunday beauty
Today we are in a very beautiful place. I had the privilege of living not too far from here in the town of Cheviot for several years and today we are surrounded by the...
the present
I always feel a bit short-changed when a public holiday falls on a Monday as they mostly do. Today in New Zealand is the Queen's birthday holiday - even though the...
the big picture
So much of our struggle and anxiety each day comes when we lose sight of the big picture. I like the story about the wise old man who was asked by the boy to explain...
seasons & feelings
It was only a few short months ago that I posted some pictures taken at this spot (in the Cheviot Hills Reserve) on the Food For Faith Facebook page. The pictures were...
tempted ?
At the risk of you turning off even before we begin, I want to offer a word of encouragement about temptation. We all experience temptations. Jesus was tempted. I enjoy...
love is…
One of the great privileges in the life of a priest is to celebrate weddings. I am very aware that the last thing that the couple or their family and friends gathered...
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a lonely place
That’s an interesting choice of words from Jesus, not just a call to be alone, but an invitation to embrace loneliness.
real & essential
H easy it is for humans to forget what is essential and to become preoccupied with what is less necessary and even trivial.
a new month
Knowing that we are held in God’s loving embrace in every moment we have no need to turn to superstition
THE sign
The Sign of the Cross is not simply a tidy way of beginning and ending times of prayer, but a prayer in itself
fully alive
Jesus did not make the disciples into uniformed robots capable of satisfying little more than the letter or religious law