The annual Rimini meeting is in its 36th year of working to build "friendship among peoples." In recent years approx 800.000 people have taken part each year, attracted...
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just intolerable
It is clear from gospel evidence that the presence of Jesus on earth two thousand years ago was not a comfortable presence for many of those who encountered him. While...
ChCh build plan
Bishop Barry Jones has issued a pastoral letter on the building plan for the Catholic diocese of Christchurch, a single plan involving the repair and strengthening of a...
to the hills
It is difficult to explain how a week with 300 people of all ages, sharing meals and conversations and social activity in one hotel, can be a vacation, but for the past...
life & style
You may have missed in today's Sunday Star Times a helpful insight into priesthood "when God comes calling."  I liked the way the article on God's calling to consider...
missing the point
Each day I receive by email and text message several commentaries on the scriptures of the day. Sometimes these inspirations and encouragements come from the saint of...
down-under saint
The feast of the first down-under (Australia / New Zealand) saint, Mary MacKillop is celebrated today (8 August), this year marking only the fifth feast-day of the...
heavenly realities
Today's  feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus has got me thinking again about church building. Let me explain the connection. A couple of years ago with a group of...
doors open wide
I invite you to join with me in prayer this week for the young men of St. Bede's College Christchurch as the school spends the week focussed on vocations. This...
food glorious food
One of our most basic human needs is for food. Within moments of birth the healthy new-born cries out for this nourishment, and her hunger is satisfied only by finding...
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growing pains
The one who embraces this journey soon discovers that the pathway provided is more personally tailored to us than any life we might create for ourselves.
here’s hoping
Hope begins in the personal meeting with a divine presence-made-flesh, and encountered in the messy and imperfect reality of our daily experience.
bones alive
I am now going to open your graves; I mean to raise you from your graves, my people … and you will live.
discipline
We disciples of Jesus are followers of Jesus because we have found in Him the answer to the restlessness and dis-ease of our lives.
through the valley
The psalm from today’s liturgy is perhaps the best known of all of the 150 psalms. It is a text known by name, number and popular melody:Â