Last night our Christchurch seminarians gathered for dinner with a group of seminarians from the United States who are visiting New Zealand accompanying one of their...
anniversary
Fr. Jack O’Connor
This weekend marks the fiftieth anniversary of the ordination to priesthood of my uncle, and grand-Godfather (ie my Godmother's Godfather), Fr Jack O'Connor. Earlier in...
Fr. Jack O’Connor
It is the end of a wonderful day of celebration of my uncle Jack's 50th jubilee of his ordination as a priest of the diocese of Christchurch. While the actual date is...
7 December 1985
I'm not going to miss the opportunity to remind blog readers to pray for me. Twenty-Eight years ago today I was ordained a priest, by Bishop Denis Hanrahan, in the...
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the measure
there was a great mid-Lent relief, a lightening-up, when it came to St. Patrick’s day.
from the hilltop
it is a liberation from the burden of everyday life, a breathing in of the pure air of creation
just be perfect
let’s take a look at what Jesus means (and doesn’t mean) by perfection.
grateful
I need to meet Jesus, not in the then and there but in the here and now
A.S.K.
If I like to be asked, then perhaps God likes to be asked as well?