As a priest, a leader in the church, I know that what Brian Holdsworth says about church leaders in this brief video clip is true because it’s true about me.
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our hope
God constantly breaks into our personal histories, challenging our “conventions”, those fixed ways of thinking and acting that end up paralyzing us.
just follow
It is significant that the disciples had already worked hard all night. They would have been tired and hungry and ready for a sleep. But it was precisely when all their human efforts had brought no results that they were open to divine power.
Bishop Peter Carrell
The Christian community of Christchurch rejoices today with the Episcopal Ordination and Installation of The Reverend Doctor Peter Carrell as the ninth bishop of the...
love is…
I was speaking with a married couple a few years ago who argued that marriage was a secular ceremony and there was no need for any religion in the service.
passion & gift
“Fr. Paul has had a long and varied career with the Catholic Church, which is often the case when you follow a vocation into the priesthood.”
redefining family
Our definitions of family are often too narrow, certainly more restrictive than the beautifully diverse reality that is family life in 2019. Listen to my 3 minute homily at this link
a distant God? NOT!
Often we too behave like the neighbours in Nazareth: we prefer a distant God: nice, good, generous, well depicted, yet far-off, and above all a God who does not inconvenience us…
sixty years today
The decision to hold an ecumenical council came to us in the first instance in a sudden flash of inspiration. We communicated this decision, without elaboration, to the Sacred College of Cardinals on that memorable January 25, 1959, the feast of St. Paul’s Conversion.
tuned in to God
We find happiness in life when we are tuned to the voice of God. How can we do this in the midst of the many noises that surround and bombard us?
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entering
We live most intimately with Jesus not when we imagine what he went through, but when we fully enter our own lives,
scattered
I have no doubt that everyone reading this FFF post has been encountered by God.
at the threshold
I often think when I am celebrating a funeral as I was yesterday. that we are, for these hours, at the entrance to paradise.
a new deed
See, I am doing a new deed, even now it comes to light; can you not see it
the favourable time
Over the years I’ve prayed many prayers which have not been answered as I had hoped.