Tag Archive for ‘priests’
Tuesday 8 July
Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13;Ps 115; Matthew 9:32-38 Vocations “The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few” Has there ever been more need for ‘labourers’ in Australasia? We now have two priests looking after three mass centers. Previously there were six. The religious have mostly gone from the schools and hospitals. The lack of vocations and […]
Saturday 5 April
Jeremiah 11:18-20, Ps 7, John 7:40-52 Anointed by God The pharisees and the chief priests, the civil authorities, none could believe and accept that Jesus could be the Christ, the anointed one of God, the one chosen by God who came to make God known to us. Each one of us, too, is called and […]
Friday 8 November
Rom 15:14-21, Ps 98, Luke 16:1-8 The New Evangelisation This year, 2013, the world reached a population of 7 billion. One-third of these People believe in and follow Jesus. The work that he began, and that Paul continued, is far from complete. Two thirds of the world do not yet have a conscious, dynamic, and […]
From the back pew: The back nine, and tidying up the scorecard
Mark Steele, who describes himself as the most ordinary of Catholics, writes: Some months ago I received from an old motorcycling days’ Guyanese colleague now resident in Canada, a wonderfully written piece with a golfing flavour called ‘The back nine holes’ which served as a motivation factor for this latest effort. It is actually linked […]
Tuesday 9 July
Genesis 32: 23-33, Ps. 17, Matthew 9: 32-38 Shepherding the locals The setting for this reading is the locale of towns and villages. The locals though, sense they are witnessing something much larger about the mission of Jesus—something which seems beyond them. This insight dejects them. Jesus addresses this. The message is the same for […]
New Wineskins
In our Archdiocese we are going through a process of structural review which will result in cutting the number of parishes by half. At present there are 46 parishes and one personal parish for Maori. The clergy are aging, with a third retired, some of whom are still working. There are two ordinations this year […]
Reclaiming Generation Y
GENERATION Y is short hand for the generation of the new Millennium, born in the mid-80s and later. They follow Generation X,born in the 60s and 70s, who are in turn the children of the Baby Boomers – the post war generation. One of the saddest sights today is a church with few young people […]
On the Role of Priests and the Witness of Women
From his Chrism Mass Homily the role of priests A good priest can be recognized by the way his people are anointed. This is a clear test. When our people are anointed with the oil of gladness, it is obvious: for example, when they leave Mass looking as if they have heard good news. Our […]
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