Author: wmc
A call from a Gaza pulpit for Middle East peace
Fr Manuel Musallam gave this homily in mid-January 2009 just after the ‘ceasefire’ after a 22-day Israeli invasion of Gaza.
A Sister speaks of her 40 years teaching in the Israeli-occupied territories
Living in the Middle East for over 40 years, Maltese nun Patricia Crockford, who teaches music at Bethlehem University, tells of the human suffering she has witnessed.
Letter from Lyon
A meeting of two peoples, of two churches’Lyon and Wellington’from either ends of the earth.
Welcoming the stranger
‘You hypocrites, you’re in here saying your prayers and I’m out there struggling to survive’.
Preachers at the banquet of Holy Wisdom
Dr Reid prescribed a three-course meal in which the spirituality of the preacher is expounded in words and themes that the hearers understand through their own spiritual journey.
The building-up church in Feilding
As St Brigid’s Church, Feilding is demolished, a community reflects on the words of Paul that they are being spiritually ‘built-up’ to provide a place for God’s presence.
Wellington protests war in Gaza
Last month a bass drum beat out across Wellington’s Civic Square the death toll of (then) more than 800 people killed in the so-called ’22-day war’ launched by the Israeli military against the people of Gaza on December 27.
Romans – more reflections on Paul
The Letter to the Romans represents the Mount Everest of New Testament scholarship. As the Christian church crumbled under the Barbarian invasions, Augustine learned from Romans how one can construct a view of human nature and the state which can survive the breakdown of civilisation.
Social justice awareness builds communities of hope
In 2006 the archdiocesan synod offered a prophetic statement concerning social justice: ‘In 2011 all members of the archdiocese will know and understand that social justice is at the heart of the gospel.’