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life in the gap

life in the gap

The "mind the gap" signs are often found at railway stations where the authorities don't like to lose customers between the platform and the train. The gap is a helpful image for human life. Find out more in this brief three-minute Food For Faith video clip.

FFF on F book

FFF on F book

The www.foodforfaith.org.nz now has a companion Food For Faith Facebook page. While the website has a few formal updates each week, the Food For Faith Facebook page has many more informal updates, as well as a posting whenever something new appears on this web page....

a Saturday…

a Saturday…

The Catholic communities of the Hurunui district are small and spread around a large rural hinterland. Since my arrival in the parish just over three years ago the three parishes have been reformed into one new parish of the Good Shepherd. This has been a challenging...

It is good for us …

It is good for us …

It was on this Second Sunday of Lent two years ago (24 February 2013) that Pope Benedict gave his last Sunday Audience in St. Peter's Square. On that Sunday, the gospel reading at Mass was the same as today's reading: the Transfiguration of Jesus. You can read a...

send our roots rain

send our roots rain

I spent much of the day driving around the lower Hurunui. Last week I saw it from the air. The land is dry. Very dry. We have not had rain for months and the land is parched with livestock struggling to find pasture. In some pockets of the countryside irrigation is...