During the month of September 2024 Pope Francis’ intention is: for the cry of the Earth. We pray that each one of us will hear and take to heart the cry of the Earth and of victims of natural disasters and climactic change, and that all will undertake to personally care for the world in […]
Pope Francis is often quoted as having said, as a Catholic community, we are less living in an era of change than a change of era. I personally agree with this observation.
Mark’s Gospel tells of the occasion when, responding to Jesus’ instruction to ‘cross over to the other side’, the disciples ‘took him, just as he was, in the boat; and there were other boats with him’. [Mk 4:35; Jerusalem Bible]
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – John 6:24-35
24 When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
Early last year, Rebecca Taylor-Hunt was announced asthe newDirector of the Catholic Enquiry Centre. CEC is the agency of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference, dedicated to evangelising in Aotearoa New Zealand.
During the month of August 2024 Pope Francis’ intention is: for political leaders.
We pray that political leaders be at the service of their own people, working for integral human development and for the common good, especially caring for the poor and those who have lost their jobs.
Let us pray – Kia inoi tatou
E te Atua aroha mā te whakapuaki
i tō mātou whakapono
Loving God in professing this faith
in which we are united as your people,
we unite ourselves with the Yes
of Mary, mother of Jesus and first disciple.
The expression, two’s company, three’s a crowd, tells us a third person can be intrusive, a misfit. It can signal a selfish attitude: we just want to keep to ourselves; we don’t want to have to share.
We also hear, bad things happen in threes – I burnt the toast this morning and I forgot to put the rubbish out. What’ll be the third thing?
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mark 4:26-34 26Jesus said to the crowds: ‘This is what the kingdom of God is like; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land. 27Night and day, while he sleeps, when he is awake, the seed is sprouting and growing; he does not know […]
At St Mary’s parish in Ōtaki recently, Fr Phil Cody sm preached a striking sermon on the New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ revised document, Te Kahu O Te Ora, published last September.