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...
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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 ?
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
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
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
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
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
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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signing
Yesterday morning I was with nine others at a FFF cafe gathering.
our father
let’s grow to appreciate at a deeper level the beauty of these two words
hopeful pilgrims
the real life of a pilgrim is to let Jesus encounter each of us every day in the midst of our circumstances
tempted or attracted
Temptation is a flaw in our logic causing us to think that we need more than we really need
powerless ?
the starting point for maturation of Christian faith: I admitted I was powerless…