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food glorious food

food glorious food

One of our most basic human needs is for food. Within moments of birth the healthy new-born cries out for this nourishment, and her hunger is satisfied only by finding milk at the breast and embrace of her mother. Within a few months milk is no longer enough for the...

AMDG

AMDG

Some of us remember beginning every new page of school work with the heading A.M.D.G. A good number of us also recall that the letters stood for Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, for the Greater Glory of God. I imagine that many older Catholics stopped the practice of marking...

help for prayer

help for prayer

I am not sure how I would pray if I did not have the regular rhythm of the prayers and scriptures of the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours.  I am pretty sure my prayer would soon descend into nothing, since while I do pray every day apart from the set forms, it is the...

Mystery of God

Mystery of God

Here at Food For Faith I often quote the rector of the Mundelein seminary Robert Barron, and every week a link from the Hurunui parish website takes readers to his reflection on the Sunday scriptures. Last week Pope Francis appointed Fr. Barron to be one of the three...

grandparents

grandparents

The Sunday just past overtook the usual 26 July feast of Anna and Joachim, the parents of Mary and grandparents of Jesus, so I am quietly and gratefully celebrating the feast today because it gives us a great opportunity to remember the importance of grandparents in...