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...
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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...
AMDG
Some of us remember beginning every new page of school work with the heading A.M.D.G. A good number of us also recall that the letters stood for Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,...
help for prayer
I am not sure how I would pray if I did not have the regular rhythm of the prayers and scriptures of the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours. I am pretty sure my prayer...
Mystery of God
Here at Food For Faith I often quote the rector of the Mundelein seminary Robert Barron, and every week a link from the Hurunui parish website takes readers to his...
grandparents
The Sunday just past overtook the usual 26 July feast of Anna and Joachim, the parents of Mary and grandparents of Jesus, so I am quietly and gratefully celebrating the...
the IQ test
I "got burnt" with a bad experience of online game / surveys last week. My classmates at Mundelein thought it was a great joke...but before I share the details it needs...
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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: