Hearts Burning
This Sunday we reflect on Jesus’ Great Commission as we celebrate the Feast of the Ascension, which falls for us during the Southern Hemisphere’s week of Prayer for Christian Unity, […]
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COME HOLY SPIRIT, COME!
In just about a fortnight, we will conclude Eastertide with the great feast of Pentecost or the Descent of the Holy Spirit. The intervening Sunday readings prepare us for that […]
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The Way
The excitement of the disciples’ when they entered Jerusalem would have been so shattered during the last supper with news that Jesus was ‘leaving’ them; that one of their own […]
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The Lord is my Shepherd
When we told people that we were moving to New Zealand, the first two things they would ask was, “are you going to support the All Blacks?” and secondly, ”do […]
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Transformation and Accompaniment
This weekend’s Gospel reveals the transforming power of an encounter with the risen Lord. We listen to the story of the two disciples who were journeying to Emmaus, where Jesus […]
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FEEDING THE MULTITUDES
One of the readings for Mass in the coming week – on Friday — is St John’s account of the miracle of the loaves and fish. This is the only […]
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Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord
‘Till this moment they had failed to understand the teaching of the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.’ Easter Sunday is THE moment when everything makes sense, the […]
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WHERE DO WE SIT?
As we reach the sixth and final Sunday of Lent our own Lenten journey closely follows that of Jesus as he prepares us for the great liturgies of the Easter […]
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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 […]