Our gathering for the Spiritual Exercises continues today after a full Friday evening and Saturday. Late in April more than 25.000 people met in Rimini (on the Adriatic...
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living intensely
It is a great pleasure and a privilege to be with friends in the Philippines once again. This time we are gathered at the Trappistine Monastery near the southern city...
Ascension Thurs?
I often re-read the books that I consider to be spiritual classics. Some of these were written decades or centuries ago. Others, including Pope Benedict’s second “Jesus...
in Christ alone
I was a bit stunned today to see this sign outside one of the local churches. Think of the first disciples of Jesus arriving in Rome after Pentecost. These simple...
lights
At the Hawarden church early morning on the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Street light, tabernacle light, but soon the light of the rising sun will overwhelm all other...
priests@prayer
A few times each year priests of the regions of the Christchurch diocese meet to reflect, discuss and pray together. These regional meetings hear from and report to the...
many storeys
Even fifty years after his untimely death, Thomas Merton remains one of the great Christian writers and teachers. In Christchurch we feel a special connection with him...
Sr. Leonie “bottled”
As the Rector of the host College for this year's Bishop Lyons Shield Competition, Justin Boyle of St. Bede's had the opportunity for a last word before asking Bishop...
gift of words
When I arrived at the Bishop Lyons Public Speaking competition on Sunday afternoon, Bishop Barry Jones had just celebrated Mass for the teams from our seven Catholic...
in the gaze
The image that I had prepared for last Sunday's homily on the vine & branches gospel is the Vine & Branches gold resin windows from Our Lady of Victories...
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all or nothing
Watching live-streamed Mass? Try turning off after the homily and spending the next ten minutes praying with the scriptures you have heard.
truth tellers
It only takes one person living uncompromisingly in relationship with Jesus Christ to begin a movement of renewal
chosen
“But now there is a difference; the initiative is entirely with God”.
a bit of colour
I usually spend a day with the following day’s scripture so that in the evening I have something to share in these FFF posts.
just pruning
Perhaps the pain you are experiencing today is not a cutting that causes death but a pruning that is preparing you to live more freely and fully ?