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faith’s friendships

faith’s friendships

It is a privilege for me to spend a couple of days twice a year with members of the Anglican Roman Catholic Commission of Aotearoa New Zealand (ARCCANZ).  This forum is the national dialogue between the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia and the...

let’s pray

let’s pray

I am often surprised and saddened to hear people speaking about their own experience of prayer with a degree of uncertainty and lack of confidence. But when I hear them speak it is clear to me that they have no reason at all to be uncertain because they are praying...

four years on…

four years on…

It was on this morning four years ago that in New Zealand we woke to the news that Pope Francis had been elected. I recall being in the Cheviot Four Square store a few months later in a conversation with others waiting at the check-out line when a tourist, learning...

the greatest journey

the greatest journey

If you were asked to name the greatest journey ever made, I wonder what you would answer. Take a moment to think about it. Maybe you're thinking about a journey made by great explorers to the poles of the earth, to the depths of the oceans or to the top of the highest...

transfiguration

transfiguration

It is Saturday evening as I write and I have just arrived back in Amberley after the Vigil Mass at Hanmer Springs. The Christian Sabbath has begun. In my homily at tonight's Mass I recalled a pilgrimage I made to the Holy Land a few years ago.  One of the distinctive...