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lake wobegon

lake wobegon

One of the sections of this Food For Faith website is entitled "listen." In this age of computer movies and on-demand TV, listening as our ancestors did to radio comedies, documentaries and interviews is sadly a relatively rare pastime. Many people of my age (and...

saints today

saints today

A brief video reflection on earthquakes, church building and the call to live the life of a saint from the basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. Pilgrims come to this place from all over the world to visit the town where Francis lived, and site of his burial above which...

surprise journey

surprise journey

In the early 1980‘s I lived for six years of formation for priesthood at Holy Cross seminary in Mosgiel. In the late 1990’s when the number of seminarians was relatively low, the seminary was shifted to Ponsonby in Auckland where a new surge of passion for the life of...

chosen

chosen

I'm leading a retreat for the priests of the Catholic dioceses of Auckland and Hamilton this week. Today's Gospel reading was timely for our group; Jesus calling the twelve. I was reflecting with the group that the twelve Jesus chose to be his intimate friends and...

tasting beauty

tasting beauty

Last weekend the Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch took the decision to restore their earthquake-damaged Cathedral. While a decision about the future of the Catholic Cathedral will be made after the appointment of a new bishop, the Anglican Community of...