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.”
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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.
intelligent faith
Too often religion is presented as the answer to questions that no-one is asking. At The Meeting faith is presented as the adequate response to human existence.
living reality
The biographies of those named as saints in the church often promote the false idea that a saint is more likely to be an introvert who prefers to hide in a chapel than to engage with the world.
Assumption
Knowing that we too are invited to this divine life is the whole point of human existence. To miss this point, is to miss the whole point of life.
Monty’s call
By happy coincidence I have spent time this week in the same course of study as a couple of dozen seminarians from the U.S. I have been inspired by their vocations stories and their enthusiasm
pope to priests
I am deeply grateful to those who support me in my desire to live fully as a priest.
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
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while we sleep
Joseph would have gone to bed in turmoil, yet he woke with clear direction and new energy.
family tree
God uses the good and the bad in each of us to sow seeds and mature and nurture faith
i depend
Earlier today I was in Nazareth House home for the aged and noticed many of the residents using walking frames.
fall in love
Faith is not the addition of a programme to our already full hard-drives, or a reboot, but a new default setting.
identifying Jesus
John of the Cross appreciates the co-existence of pleasure and pain, hope and despair, joy and suffering.