Author: wmc

‘I needed something to challenge my mind. God sends us prophets who enter our life’s journey. My own prophet was the Catholic Chaplain who asked if I wanted to read the course outline for Walk by Faith.’

St Teresa’s church in Karori was packed on Monday October 13, when the archdiocese farewelled this much loved priest.

Lorna was known for her courage. While she had a warm and ready smile, she also knew great suffering.

‘I would put her down as one of New Zealand’s great human rights campaigners.’

The word ‘love’ came up frequently in conversations with Mary. ‘I realise my life has been surrounded in love.’

To my mind Pip was a saint who displayed heroic faith and extraordinary grace.

Our lives are shaped and reshaped by those who have loved us’by those who have blessed us with their lives of faith, hope and charity.

This is a wonderful statement of confidence by the government in the national Catholic school system. It complements the $13.3 million in retrospective funding that was recently received to help pay for the establishment of Aquinas College in Tauranga.

She had been involved in minimal liturgical formation in the past and found the course a wonderful confirmation of what she had already been doing.