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Read the scriptures for Wednesday Week Seven in Ordinary Time at this link.
Wednesday 22 May 2024
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Tuesday 21 May 2024
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Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Seven in Ordinary Time at this link.
Monday 20 May 2024
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Read the scriptures for the Feast of Mary, Mother of the Church, at this link.
Sunday 19 May 2024
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Read the scriptures for Pentecost at this link.
Homily Studio – Sunday 19 May 2024
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Join Jelvine Cortez, John Kinder & Kate Kearins in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for the feast of Pentecost.
Read the Pentecost scriptures at this link.
John concluded with the Sequence for Pentecost. Here it chanted in English at this link and in Latin here.
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Jelvine mentioned the Holy Spirit window at Te Kupenga Catholic College in Auckland. Here it is:
Tuesday 14 May 2024
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Read the scriptures for the Feast of St. Matthais at this link.
Sunday 12 May 2024
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Read the scriptures for the Feast of Ascension of the Lord at this link.
Homily Studio – Sunday 12 May 2024
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Join Kath Petrie & Colin MacLeod in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for the Feast of the Ascension.
Read the scriptures for this feast at this link.
Kath mentioned Gerard Manley Hopkins great poem God’s Grandeur. Listen at this link.
John quotes Pope Benedict’s reflection for the Feast of the Ascension. You can find it at this link.
Tuesday 7 May 2024
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Read the scriptures for Tuesday of Week Six in Eastertide at this link.
Monday 6 May 2024
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Read the scriptures for Monday of Week Six in Eastertide at this link.
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Patrick’s day
Most people who celebrate on St. Patrick’s day today think of wearing green and enjoying good Irish music, Guinness and perhaps dancing at an Irish pub. But it’s easy to forget that Patrick was a robust disciple of Jesus Christ who brought the Good News of the ultimate and eternal liberation through Jesus Christ to the people of Ireland.
good sense
Christian faith makes sense.
And therefore living in relationship with Jesus Christ is the most sensible life of all.
This is why a spiritually mature person will be both aware of and sensitive to their environment, in touch with what they see, taste, hear, smell and touch.
an authentic life
I spent spent most of yesterday on the road to the small South Canterbury town of Albury where the community had gathered to mark the closure of their 120 year old church. While i have never served as Parish Priest of the Mackenzie region I was driver for my 93-year-old uncle Jack who was priest for the Fairlie and Albury (and later Twizel) communities both in the 1970’s and the 1990’s.
well being
I was interested to see what I have posted for this Sunday in recent years. On this third Sunday of Lent in 2011 Elizabeth Taylor had just died and I noted a link between today’s Gospel encounter with Jesus at a well and Elizabeth Taylor. While both women had been married many times that’s not the link I’m thinking of.
to dream
If there is one Old Testament account that is a must for every adult and child of faith it is the great Exodus epic which begins with Joseph and his amazing technicolour dreamcoat.
The entire saga is a pre-Christian primer in discernment preparing us for a God who in Jesus is available, personal, powerful, and eager to carry us through any captivity and challenge through death to resurrection.