Dear Parishioners,
In his Spiritual Exercises, St Ignatius Loyola suggests that when reading any Gospel story, we should try to put ourselves in the place of each character in turn and imagine how […]
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Blindness
In the Gospel this week, we see how the Pharisees “suppress the truth by their wickedness” (Romans 1:18) because they refused to believe in the miracle of the curing of […]
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Evangelisation
This weekend we hear proclaimed the familiar gospel of Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well. Just like a well this scripture is deep and nourishing. I know this […]
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Eighty – the magic number
No, I am not talking about my age (although with all the pains and aches I have, I sometimes feel like I am indeed eighty!) but rather this is the […]
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Lent – A New Beginning
Since 2014 I have walked the ‘Camino de Santiago’ 5 times. It is a walk to northern Spain, where it is believed the bones of St James the Apostle are […]
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Storms
In the first seven weeks of 2023 there have been three disastrous storms, all of which have caused great damage in the upper and central North Island. The most recent, […]
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Love: The Heart of the Matter
In Jesus’ time, Law and Prophets was used to denote Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament for us Christians). In today’s Gospel passage we find Jesus as the authentic interpreter of the […]
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Share your bread with the hungry
It is February already! Where did January go? School and work routines have returned, and the year lies ahead of us. What will it bring? I suspect that the only […]
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Frameworks for life and re-opening
Welcome to the first Cathedral Connection for 2023, which marks the end of the summer holiday season, the beginning of the new calendar year, and the resumption of activity in […]
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Emmanuel, God-with-us
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that everyone who believes may have eternal life” (John3:16) The time of waiting in anticipation and Advent […]