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Friday 10 August
St Lawrence Ps 111, 2 Corinthians 9:6-10; John12:24-26 Sustenance What does the grain of wheat refer to? I think it is our soul. Just as the seed needs nourishment to produce so the soul needs nourishment through prayers and sacraments. Could we pray for those who have drifted away from the church that the Lord […]
Thursday 9 August
St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) Ps 51; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Matthew 16: 13-23 The Rock “And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.” Jesus appoints Peter (the Rock) to lead the Christians after His death. Are we the rocks that the church relies […]
Tuesday 10 July
Hosea 8:4-7,11-13, Ps.115, Matthew 9:32-38 Good fruit Everything good comes from God. The Pharisees suggested that Jesus healed by the power of Satan, simply because they disapproved of Jesus, he was not one of them. This is a temptation we, as individuals and we, as church, can fall into. Good is done in many ways, […]
South Korea, the Asian Tiger of the Church
On his website, Italian Sandro Magister reports on South Korea where the number of Catholics is growing at a staggering pace. With many thousands of new baptized adults every year. He includes a report of a great missionary Pierro Gheddo published in Avvenire – the paper of the Italian Episcopal Conference. (www.chiesa.espressonline.it) ROME, April 18, […]
Love the church with no secrets
Carlo Carretto’s famous Love Letter to the Church (here) has been quoted recently, notably in Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s Chrism Mass homily in New York. It sums up for many church people the mixed emotions experienced concerning the Roman Catholic Church in its present travails. My faith in the Church is that it is the Body […]
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Escape to historic Akaroa Last year I was in Christchurch on 23 December visiting family when there was a swarm of earthquakes from 4.5 to 6.1 on the Richter scale. Apart from the solidarity I felt with the locals who been living with this stuff for two years, it was not what I wanted in […]
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