It was a delight to spend time last night with five of our six seminarians for the diocese of Christchurch at Holy Cross Seminary in Auckland, and later in the evening...
Desire
mud pies
After the Good Shepherd Parish Masses yesterday morning I drove down to Christchurch for a couple of meetings. The latter meeting was with the Vocations Team, the group...
hope in suffering
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...
cure for dis-ease
One of the disadvantages of living just west of the international dateline is that priests' and popes' (I'm enjoying shifting that apostrophe while we can) blogs don't...
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Jack
The oldest priest in NZ is now the youngest priest in Heaven
the journey
the luck of the draw. I’m more likely to call it providence or God-incidence
the swan
with regal composure allows himself to glide
to be wise
O God, You were with me, but alas, I was not with you
just remember
more than 20% of the 180 words in the opening lines speak directly of God