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.
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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?
death & life
I have often quoted the High School principal who when asked to name the specific reason for the existence of her school responded: “We exist to prepare our students for death.”
maturation
…I first realised this some years ago when I struggled with the imperfection that is so evident in many of the structures, communications and people of the institutional church.
St. Bede’s Chapel
The St. Bede’s College community in Christchurch have this week completed the building of a magnificent new chapel
hopeful endurance
None of us likes to suffer, but on reflection we do know that at times we have had the maturity and the patience to endure times of difficulty knowing it is the only pathway to a greater reward.
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one more sleep …
I offer this grace below as a way to begin your Christmas meal this year.
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.