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 […]