NauMai September 2021 An image has been occurring to me of boats that have become unmoored. They end up on the rocks, or colliding with one another. There are features of our Western world’s culture that seem to fit the image. Important aspects of our lives seem to have become disconnected from what gives them […]
NauMai September 2021 The World Day of Prayer also falls at the beginning of the Season of Creation – from 1 September until 4 October, the feast of St Francis of Assisi. This is an ecumenical season dedicated to prayer for the protection of creation and the promotion of sustainable lifestyles. Thousands around the world […]
NauMai September 2021 Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mark 7:31-37 31 Returning from the territory of Tyre, he went by way of Sidon towards the Lake of Galilee, right through the Decapolis territory. 32 And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they asked him to lay […]
NauMai September 2021 During the month of September 2021 Pope Francis’ universal intention is for: An environmentally sustainable lifestyle. We pray that we all will make courageous choices for a simple and environmentally sustainable lifestyle, rejoicing in our young people who are resolutely committed to this.
WelCom August 2021 A magnificent tribute to faith This year, the Assumption of Mary is being rededicated as the patron of the Church in Aotearoa New Zealand. Formally declared a dogma of the Church in 1850, the Assumption was the cornerstone chosen by our first bishop, Baptiste Pompallier, to protect, strengthen and guide the new […]
WelCom August 2021 ‘Canon Law’ is the legal system of the Catholic Church and includes law for church order, discipline, structures, rules and procedures for the highly organised community that is the Catholic Church. The central core of canon law in the Catholic Church is ‘The Code of Canon Law’, last promulgated in 1983, although […]
WelCom August 2021 Pope Francis has again encouraged the ministry of New York-based, Fr James Martin sj, to LGBT persons and with words that could also encourage others in this work. He did so on the eve of the Outreach 2021 LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] Catholic ministry conference that took place by webinar […]
WelCom August 2021 The emergence of a ‘Fourth Church’ in New Zealand calls for genuine dialogue among the various traditions of Catholicism in this country, says Dr Joe Grayland, priest and theologian in the Diocese of Palmerston North. Shema Israel: ‘Listen Israel, the Lord your God is One. Love the Lord with all your heart, […]
WelCom August 2021 During the month of August 2021 Pope Francis’ intention is for Evangelisation: The Church. Let us pray for the Church, that She may receive from the Holy Spirit the grace and strength to reform herself in the light of the Gospel.
WelCom August 2021 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel, John 6: 24-35 24 When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and crossed to Capernaum looking for Jesus.25 And when they found him across the sea they said to him, ‘Rabbi, when did you get here?’ 26 […]