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Spiritual Reflection - April 2024

April 3rd 2024 What is written below is designed to be read with the other essays as promised for 2024. MY IMAGE OF GOD I love because I love I love that I might love Love gives pleasure of itself.  (St Bernard) Read more
Spiritual Reflection - February 2024

Spiritual Reflection - February 2024

January 29th 2024 And his teaching made a deep impression on them because, unlike the scribes, he taught them with authority  (Mk 1:22). The recently deceased National President of the St Vincent de Paul Society, Read more
Spiritual Reflection - January 2024

Spiritual Reflection - January 2024

December 4th 2023 January 2023 WHERE IS THE POVERTY? A religious sister whom I worked with in my early years of priesthood, eventually spent some years in the 1980’s working in Ethiopia. I often thought of her, as Read more

Spiritual Reflection - December 2023

December 1st 2023 It is somewhat irritating as Christmas draws near, writing something relating to the Christian message, when there is a war going on between the peoples of Palestine and Israel. Fighting for peace Read more

Spiritual Reflection - November 2023

October 30th 2023 It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate task: that of creating our own lives. – Thomas Merton Thomas Merton had been a Trappist mo Read more

Spiritual Reflection - July 2023

May 29th 2023 Like the nectar of the flax flower Read more

Spiritual Reflection - May 2023

February 28th 2023 Aroha mai, aroha atu Love received demands love returned Read more

Spiritual Reflection - April 2023

February 28th 2023 Ko te maumahara kore ki ngā whakapapa o ōu mātua tīpuna, e rite ana ki te pūkaka awa kāore ōna hikuawa, ki te rākau rānei kāore ōna pakiaka. To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook Read more

Spiritual Reflection - March 2023

February 28th 2023 TUWHITIA TE HOPO! Banish your fears! Feel the fear and do it anyway! A popular hymn these days ‘BE NOT AFRAID’ is inspired by texts in the 1st Testament of the bible and incorporates the Read more

Spiritual Reflection - February 2023

February 1st 2023 Ko tangata  takahi manuhiri, ko te marae puehu: Insult the visitor and you contaminate the marae. This magnificent whakatauakī (saying) reveals an understanding that something connects us with each Read more
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