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Holy Week

Mar 19, 2016

With Palm Sunday this weekend we mark the beginning of Holy Week. You might find this brief video journey through these holy days to Easter helpful.

foster fathers’ feast

Mar 18, 2016

I took this picture a few years ago at Los Angeles Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles. The carving is of St. Joseph with a young Jesus. It is a rare and powerful...

a Lenten treat

Mar 16, 2016

I had the chance a couple of weeks ago to see the new movie Risen. I wasn't expecting too much and queued for my ticket guessing that this would be another tragic...

Month’s Mind

Mar 15, 2016

It is an ancient tradition in the church that 30 days after the people gather to celebrate another Requiem Mass known as the "Month's Mind." Last night we gathered in...

a delighting bishop

Mar 12, 2016

This weekend marks one month since the death of Bishop Barry Jones, ninth bishop of the diocese of Christchurch, in the early hours of 13 February. On Monday evening...

the voice

Mar 3, 2016

We are almost half way through the season of Lent. Often by this stage our initial commitments and enthusiasms have faced and the demands and routines of daily life...

Welcome OLQH

Feb 27, 2016

Welcome to Food For Faith to parishioners of Our Lady Queen of Heaven parish, Lake Charles, Louisiana, where I have been leading the parish mission since last weekend....

the God of mercy

Feb 27, 2016

Meeting the God of mercy in the Year of Mercy. It would be a great tragedy if all that we did during this Year of Mercy was to speak more about mercy and to be more...

five years on

Feb 22, 2016

Today, February 22, marks five years since the devastating 2011 earthquake which brought tragic loss of life to our city. Five years on we continue the long and...

funeral homily

Feb 21, 2016

I had hoped to put the funeral homilies from the Vigil and Funeral Masses for Bishop Barry Jones online here at Food For Faith, but unfortunately due to slip-ups with...