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savouring grace

Apr 10, 2017

You will read this on Monday, but I'm writing on Sunday night, the end of a full day. It's brisk outside, "a touch autumnal" as Bishop Ashby used to say. But the cool...

Holy Week Retreat

Apr 9, 2017

You might like to join me in considering this week from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday as a week of retreat in daily life. For a Christian, to retreat is not to run...

which crowd ?

Apr 8, 2017

It's Palm Sunday this weekend, the day that marks the end of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week. This Sunday's liturgy begins with the commemoration of Jesus entry to...

deeper than moods

Apr 7, 2017

It's been one of those weeks, and so even more than usual, TGIF! On the surface it's been a week like most other weeks with a mixture of good and bad, struggles and...

living vocation

Apr 6, 2017

I often have conversations with people who are trying to decide how to spend their lives. They are not simply weighing up pros and cons to decide what to do or what...

divine building

Apr 5, 2017

We live in an age where everyone can be considered to be an expert in everything, and it is politically insensitive (at least) even to suggest that someone who has...

just do it!

Apr 4, 2017

For every one of us the term Sacrament of Confession, Penance or Reconciliation brings up many different responses reactions or feelings. Tragically there are many...

extinction or life?

Apr 3, 2017

I was skimming through the Food For Faith archive last week and found a Radio New Zealand interview from March 2011. RNZ had phoned me on receiving the results of a...

death and life

Apr 2, 2017

SADNESS & HOPE A cemetery is a place of great sadness, and a place of great hope. A visit to a cemetery is always an encounter with the ultimate reality. All the...

laughter

Apr 1, 2017

Today is widely marked as April Fool’s Day and already social media is flowing with some ingenious pranks. We have all been the victims of good-humoured jokes, and most...