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Angelus Sunday

Dec 16, 2016

If I were to give this Sunday the Fourth Sunday of Advent a name, I would designate it as Angelus Sunday. Here's why:

friendship’s sake

Dec 11, 2016

I have spent the weekend in the Philippines (Manila and Cebu) and today head home to NZ. The brief visit was an opportunity to meet with friends in both cities and to...

stability

Dec 6, 2016

Just after midnight on Monday morning 14 November a significant earthquake shook us awake. As dawn broke significant damage was revealed across the Hurunui and further...

beautiful churches

Nov 9, 2016

Today’s feast of the Dedication of the Roman basilica of St. John Lateran might seem like a strange focus for a feast. It is however a timely feast for our Christchurch...

schools follow-up

Nov 8, 2016

Earlier this year I wrote a piece in response to a Christchurch Press advertising feature page in which several city colleges promoted their schools. Included on the...

depression & hope

Nov 8, 2016

Without a doubt friendship is the greatest gift in life and in this regard I am very fortunate. In conversations with some people I have met in recent weeks I see the...

building blocks

Nov 3, 2016

Today's offering from The Liturgy Guys is especially timely for the parishes in our Christchurch diocese that are in the process of building or restoring churches. The...

God’s kind keeping

Nov 2, 2016

It is the evening of All Souls day. Always this day is, for me as for many others, a day filled with memories of those loved and loved by who have died. As we pray in...

solving stress

Nov 1, 2016

It's the feast of All Saints today. Happy Feast day! Perhaps the most common daily ailment in citizens of the western world is stress. Most mornings many of us wake...

Hurunui’s Holy Door

Oct 31, 2016

It is a great delight for us here in the Hurunui to have, for the first two weeks of November, a Holy Door. The new entrance gate at the Amberley church has been...