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eat & live

eat & live

Different foods have different effects on the body, mind and spirit. There are foods believed to be good for the brain or for the bones. Other foods aid digestion and what we eat can support fitness, cause alertness or help to induce sleep. Some foods while not...

Saint Suzanne

Saint Suzanne

My first encounter with the Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion was in Timaru where the sisters of the community founded by Mother Mary Joseph Aubert nursed the poor and disabled of South Canterbury at St. Vianney's Home of Compassion. As a teenager I recognised the...

real food

real food

There are many different kinds of food and I don't just mean the stuff we put into our mouths. A few years ago a number of chicken soup books were published offering food in a different form; words of encouragement and hope for every human situation. Significantly...

jubilee homily

jubilee homily

Bishop Paul Martin is happy to share his homily given last night at the priests' jubilee celebration in the diocese of Christchurch.   There is something very fitting about the fact that today we are celebrating the feast of St Mary McKillop and also honouring our...

ad multos annos

ad multos annos

A great day of meeting and celebration today (and tomorrow) for priests of the Christchurch diocese with our first clergy AGM with Bishop Paul Martin. Our priests' meetings always begin with fifteen minutes of silent prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. The afternoon...