Here in Canterbury New Zealand these past few years we rarely share our stories without telling of earthquakes. Our stability has been rocked in every way. We had...
suffering
a mother’s tears
I will never know the depth of enduring pain felt by a mother who watches helplessly as her child suffers and dies. As a priest I have buried too many children and...
this Holy Week
With the celebration of Palm Sunday this weekend we enter the Holy Week journey through suffering and death to the resurrection of Easter morning. In this brief clip I...
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...
sinking feeling
I’m not sure if you have ever been seasick? I will never forget the time I was so seasick that I would have welcomed death. The journey was in a fishing boat late one...
seeds that grow
The sufferings of this time, are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed. Romans 8:18 One of my seminary theology teachers often tried to express his...
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control
God cannot be controlled by human systems and structures
seek Him
Then the social gathering, a traditional, simple and robust army breakfast
let’s get physical
The stumbling point for many is that in Jesus God walked and talked and ate and drank
on the road
As they plodded they had their backs to the place considered to be the preferred place of divine activity
the recognition
It is significant that Pope Francis has died in this Easter Octave