I want to share with Food For Faith readers a great grace, a sign of hope that I experienced this weekend in the Catholic community of the Hurunui. We are a small...
TGIF
A day in the life of a diocesan priest. All over the country today students and workers have been rejoicing at the week's end: "Thank God it's Friday". It is just after...
the bulletin
Most parishes have a weekly parish bulletin. The bulletin for the Catholic Parish Parish of the Good Shepherd, Hurunui, New Zealand is uploaded every Saturday to the...
a Saturday…
The Catholic communities of the Hurunui district are small and spread around a large rural hinterland. Since my arrival in the parish just over three years ago the...
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come & go
I like that. The world as the theatre of human history, that is, the world as the place where God and people meet and live together.

no & yes
When the angel left Mary, the challenges and problems of this new era of her life had just begun.

highway for God
Unbridled ambition is problematic and resentment is exhausting. Love, generosity and forgiveness really is foundational,

by rote
Rote learning was a norm in my primary school days, repetition of the times tables, two times two equals four, three times two

so simple
So simple that children who naturally and naively live with open eyes and ears get it, when we adults too often miss the point.