Can you live without the sacraments? It seems obvious to answer this question with a ‘yes’. We all know many people who have never celebrated a sacrament, and they are...
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on our knees
A few weeks ago I had a couple of hours' session with a dozen teachers in one of our Catholic High Schools. My brief was to present something of the beauty of the...
Acolytes at HCC
On Thursday evening I was fortunate to be at the National Seminary, Holy Cross, for the institution of the Acolytes. The group of six included four (above) from my own...
disturbing presence
A few years ago I was inspired by a little book by Fr. Anthony Gittins, The Presence that Disturbs. The title refers to the great 1798 Wordsworth  poem on Tintern...
God comes down
While it's the morning after the Feast of the Annunciation here in New Zealand, there are many parts of the world still celebrating this great feast, so I still have...
Fra Angelico
Perhaps the best known artistic representation of today's feast of the Annunciation is the fifteenth century Fra Angelico fresco from the Convent of San Marco in...
Annunciation
One of the moments of Christian history most represented in Christian art, is the encounter between Mary, the future mother of the Messiah, and the angel sent by God....
two fat ladies
"God if you are up there, please do something, I just can't go on" CDW Clarissa Dickson Wright died this week. She was well known as one of TV's cooking show Two Fat...
the well woman
A central part of the daily ministry of the life of any priest is ministry to those who have little or no contact with the Church. The most inspiring of these...
1000
Food For Faith quietly celebrated a significant milestone earlier this week with the 1000th posting. Five years ago the Food For Faith blog began as a two week Holy...
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Vocations Awareness Week
Thank you to all who are active in promoting diocesan priesthood as a fulfilling, God-centred life of adventure and service.Â
A.M.D.G.
You might remember beginning every new page of school work with the heading A.M.D.G. recalling that the letters stood for Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (For the Greater Glory of God).
living? maybe not!
It’s the feast of Ignatius Loyola today and he has helped me to see that my fears and compulsions often tragically lead me to go through days and weeks as if I’m at least half asleep
the way of freedom
If you sometimes feel driven and trapped by your compulsion and activity you might find this reflection helpful
it’s not magic
There is a tendency to see prayer as an incantation recited in the hope of magically causing a response. But magic is not what we want. It’s relationship with God that we are seeking.