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It is early in the morning here in Hamilton New Zealand, and I am appreciating the opportunity while in the city for Bishop Steve Lowe's ordination to stay with my family who I don't get to see often enough. It is dawn and I am sitting on their deck with a Breviary, a...
Thirty-five years ago this morning (12 February 1980) I woke for the first time as a seminarian discerning a call to diocesan priesthood for the diocese of Christchurch. Â I had arrived at Holy Cross Seminary in Mosgiel just before 5pm the previous afternoon. Â At the...
After my ordination to the priesthood my first appointment was as assistant priest to the parish of Greymouth on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. I remember some parishioners returning from a three month journey to Europe and one night over a larger group...
Keep in your prayer, especially this week, Bishop-Elect Steve Lowe who will be ordained as Bishop of the diocese of Hamilton New Zealand on Friday evening 13 February in the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin, Hamilton.
Over the weekend I was a bit preoccupied by the many ways in which those I love, (friends, family and parishioners), suffer. It was yesterday's first reading from the Old Testament book of Job that got me pondering. Job was a good man and his suffering came about only...