Morena – Good morning, Well,  another week and we are basically at the halfway point of 2024. I just cannot get over how quickly the year has gone. And lots has happened over this past six months, new groups, new parishes, good relationships sustained, sadness through illness, sickness, death and grief all part […]

   Morena – Good morning, I thought I might start this week with some background on what are parables? Fr Michael Fallon MSC suggests that the Aramaic word for parable can be translated to mean ‘riddle’. Therefore, when we read a parable we cannot bring our logical mind to it. Why? Well, a parable does […]

    Morena – Good morning, We have been through an array of Feasts that should stir us on and also point the way as to how we are called to follow Jesus. We had the Pentecost moment where the church is born and that birth was one of encounter and action to go out […]

    Morena – good morning, St. Patrick used the shamrock (or three-leafed clover) in Ireland to teach about God as the Holy Trinity. The Trinity: God is one substance with three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Here is the Christian meaning of the shamrock symbol: Three Leaves = God is Three Persons of […]

    Morena – good morning,, This weekend, we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost ,the fiftieth day after the Passover; a Feast that was known as the  Feast of Weeks . At this time ,it was a good time to travel thus explaining the number of countries mentioned in the reading from Acts. The Feats […]

    Morena – good morning, There is good reason for celebrating the Feast of the Ascension as it is an important lead up to Pentecost. In the Ascension readings there is so much challenge, wisdom and depth, on how to follow Jesus and in truth it is not for the faint hearted! Paul’s exhortation […]

  Good afternoon, Yesterday, i.e. Wednesday  I spent some time in the Lower Hutt library while waiting for my wife’s car to be serviced. I picked up a book on the Chronicles of the Popes and I spent an hour tracing through centuries of Popes and the church of their time with all the muddle […]

    Good afternoon, It is a powerful image that is drawn from John’s gospel – Jesus as ‘the Good Shepherd’. I have had the experience of rounding up sheep on my Uncle’s farm – riding on a motor bike for hours crisscrossing the paddocks and steering in the end thousands of them to the […]

    Morena/Good morning, Good afternoon, The readings this Sunday have us continuing on our journey to Pentecost.  We journey as a community who is trying to understand the call of Jesus and the demands that he places on us to bring others to his ways. It is encouraging to see Jesus calling the disciples […]

    Morena/Good morning, As advised previously, the New Zealand Bishops invited Passionist Family Group Movement to respond to the tasks set for the Synod feedback by asking this main question:  How can we be a synodal Church in mission?  Synodal is simply walking together and all that conjures up. It is about openness to […]