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for Bridget we pray

for Bridget we pray

It is now two weeks since Bridget Martin, a young Christchurch wife and mother, suddenly suffered a cardiac arrest while on holiday.  Within hours she was undergoing major surgery and the prognosis carried little hope. Immediately Bridget's friends and family began to...

quakes & butterflies

quakes & butterflies

Here in Canterbury New Zealand these past few years we rarely share our stories without telling of earthquakes. Our stability has been rocked in every way. We had thought that our turn on shaky ground had passed and recovery was underway. But then just after midnight...

James K Baxter

James K Baxter

Thanks to Radio New Zealand online I can share this interview with Fr.  John Weir, editor of the complete prose works of one of New Zealand's greatest writers, James K Baxter. Baxter became a Catholic in 1959 and from that point his writing became even more focussed...

benevolent glancing

benevolent glancing

. In the early 1990's I had the privilege of taking a class taught by Sister Mary Evelyn Jegen SND. Mary Evelyn was well known as a leader in the promotion of peace, and brought many life-changing gifts to the mixed bunch of students who sat in her class on...

for Bridget we pray

needing a miracle

These post-Christmas and early new year days provide many New Zealanders with annual rest and recreation. However some families have suffered tragedy in these vacation days. I'm thinking especially of a young Christchurch woman, Bridget (pictured) who while on holiday...