In these hours don Mario is returning to the home of the Father. Already we miss the beauty of his full-of-God gaze, his eyes alive with enthusiasm.
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armistice
We are slow to learn that violence can never deliver the peace we seek.
Bono & Jesus
With U2 playing in Auckland this weekend I’m appreciating the opportunity to savour not only their music but also some of Bono’s inspiring interviews.
Guy Fawkes
We know that future generations will look back on us as primitive for treating explosives as a domestic treat.
remembering
As a preparation for this November month of the Holy Souls you might appreciate this interview on life and death based on my own experience at the time of the deaths of my parents.
Lorenzo
Lorenzo shuffled in, overweight and dishevelled and wearing an ill-fitting and badly stained clerical suit dusted with ash from his last few cigarettes. He began with risqué joke
facing entanglement
Saints are not recognised for their passionless lack of obvious sins, but because of the transparency with which they face the entanglements of life.
in the light
It was a privilege to celebrate Mass this week with a few of the Year 13 students of our Christchurch Catholic colleges as they come to the end of their school-years.
JHN & JO’C
Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see the distant scene; one step enough for me.
a new era
Perhaps we are closer today in our smaller church to the heart of the mission of Jesus, no longer filling large institutions but like the first disciples living relationship with Jesus Christ with two or three faithful companions?
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silent classroom
Those who are truly wise know that silence can provide a higher school of learning, a classroom of growth.
Magnificat
We are slow learners, often caught in our own plans and projects and restrained by our limited perspectives
those yesses
I love that! “Yes, alright”. There’s an informality, an everydayness, a humility, a lightness, an inspiring matter-of-factness.
signs everywhere
Ask the Lord your God for a sign, and you will see signs of God everywhere.
God-words
I gave up and had some food, tried to hide from the feeling in a good novel, then a walk-in-the-rain. Nothing worked