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stormy weather

stormy weather

Most Food For Faith readers will find this reflection when the sabbath is past and Monday morning has returned us all to school, study, home and work commitments. In...

Waitangi 175

Waitangi 175

School is back after our NZ summer break, and on Friday of this week we mark 175 years since the first signatures were put to the Treaty of Waitangi on Thursday 6...

extinct religion ?

extinct religion ?

In recent months I have had the opportunity to be with many people of faith in several different countries: New Zealand, Australia, Asia, United States and Europe....

meet in friendship

meet in friendship

God-willing I will again this year make it to the Rimini Meeting for friendship among peoples. It is difficult to describe the gathering which annually draws around...

Babette’s Feast

Babette’s Feast

At dinner last night, the conversation at our table turned to the movies that each of us would place on our personal list of top-ten films. The prompting for the movie...

happy St. Patrick’s

happy St. Patrick’s

When most people think of St. Patrick’s day they think of the saint who freed Ireland of snakes. Many people celebrate this day wearing green and enjoying good Irish...

Luigi Giussani

Luigi Giussani

Over the next couple of days, many thousands of communities around the world will celebrate Masses to mark the ninth anniversary of the death of Fr. Luigi Giussani. In...

a new year of faith

a new year of faith

For the thirteen months of the Year of Faith, this Icon of Mary the Mother of the Church has travelled the parishes and schools of the diocese of Christchurch. The icon...

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let the net go

let the net go

the real gift is the relationship between the receiver of the gift and the giver

a video update

a video update

a brief video reflection moving from the present to the future

timing

timing

God is seeking an opportunity to do much more than we ever ask or imagine

just one thing

just one thing

Try this today and note the difference you experience, even in one day

with open hands

with open hands

then we are really ready for God, then we are truly poor.