Jesus certainly doesn’t intend to condemn the attitude of service but rather the breathlessness with which it is sometimes lived.
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two great lights
Fifty years on you can’t miss how these astronauts were moved by what they were experiencing, and we can’t help being moved by the same beauty
very near
Last week’s TIME magazine featured the architect Antoni Gaudi and his beautiful basilica of Sagrada Familia. Gaudi was a holy man
fire
Late this afternoon we learned that the former Holy Name Seminary in Christchurch is engulfed in flames.
sleeping alone
While loneliness is a painful reality, it is most often the result of grasping at and attaching to things, projects and people we mistakenly think will bring us happiness
in pairs
The one who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much they may surround themselves with people
yes but
We might even justify our resistance by suggesting that if we keep on with our current projects for a bit longer we will be able to give Him much more in the future.
Vocations Awareness Week
National Vocations Awareness Week resources for Sunday Masses 4 August 2019 & the week following. prepared Fr. John O’Connor Acting Director, National Liturgy...
under construction
St Bede’s College in Christchurch is building a new chapel and this morning at the College Mass Bishop Paul Martin SM used the image of a chapel under construction in this homily
opportunity
Food For Faith made it to the Press this morning offering a comment on the unprecedented opportunity Bishop Martin is giving Christchurch Catholics to be a part of...
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identifying Jesus
John of the Cross appreciates the co-existence of pleasure and pain, hope and despair, joy and suffering.
think again
A young man currently undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. His reflection repeated the word gratitude.
making the choice
If you do this, I guarantee that after a day or two, you will notice a difference in your life that delights you.
Gaudete
The mind and heart is drawn to Christ who desires to remove all our anxiety…all we need to do is to ask.
what a guy
What a guy. A spectacular presence, the talk of the nation and his era. Hardly retiring and shy. Unmistakable. Unmissable.