After the Good Shepherd Parish Masses yesterday morning I drove down to Christchurch for a couple of meetings. The latter meeting was with the Vocations Team, the group...
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Sun Day
The first Christians had to decide which day of the week would be the Christian day of worship. They might have chosen Thursday evening since the first Eucharist was...
the little things
I spent much of the day driving with stops to visit parishioners in their homes all over the Good Shepherd Parish. Late in the afternoon I was ready to head for home,...
fathers’ feast
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...
Patrick’s day
When most people think of St. Patrick’s day they think of the saint who freed Ireland of snakes. Many people celebrate this day wearing green and enjoying good Irish...
go with me
One hundred years ago today, 15 March 1915, the first Catholic Bishop of the newly created diocese of Christchurch died. John Joseph Grimes was an English Marist...
Fr. Jack O’Connor
It is the end of a wonderful day of celebration of my uncle Jack's 50th jubilee of his ordination as a priest of the diocese of Christchurch. While the actual date is...
Francis’ friends
Last Saturday's gathering was a remarkable experience of friendship and faith, with Pope Francis. You'll get a taste of the event in this video clip made with an iphone...
1000’s of friends
The official estimates are that around 100.000 people whose lives have been touched by the charism conveyed by Luigi Giussani came to St. Peter's Square on Saturday to...
women wells wales
In the midst of the Hurunui drought, one of the options for this Sunday's Gospel reading (Lent 3) is the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well....
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the desert road
And so, we went about our lives distracted, pretending that we could control everything. The circumstances, however, spoiled our plans
food to last
“The sailor cannot see the north but knows the needle can”
let go the net
It is commonly wrongly thought that the call of God is at odds with our deepest human longings. But when we do set out on the paths that God has revealed, we discover that we are truly ourselves.
pray to sleep
You might use this “PRAY TO SLEEP” audio when you are ready for sleep. Just press play and with any luck you’ll be asleep before the end of it
practising
Why is it that a Catholic who is baptised, prays regularly and insists that their children are baptised doesn’t feel able to call themselves “practising”?