3O YEARS OF PASSIONIST FAMILY GROUPS IN THE PARISH OF OUR LADY STAR OF THE SEA, HOWICK, AUCKLAND On Sunday 15th May 2022 at the 9.30am Mass we celebrated this wonderful milestone.  Although in 1992 our actual set-up was in March, for various reasons including Covid we were not able to celebrate then. We advertised […]

Dear Passionist Family Groups members and friends, This short clip below is worthy to not only watch but reflect upon. This week in John’s gospel is the message of how we are to be as followers of Jesus. The call to ‘love one another’. This clip reminds me how our Passionist Family Groups Aims and […]

Please find attached 2 Pilgrimages that Fr Peter Gardiner will be co-ordinating. Expression of interest will close on 12 June 2022 for Vietnam and Cambodia. Please do not hesitate to contact Fr Peter if you are interested.    

  Dear Passionist Family Group members and friends,                 In this post Easter period is a time to understand the ‘passion’ in our own lives and the lives of others. This resurrection experience deepens our belief that the promise that Jesus will be with us is real, not imagined. The remarkable events witnessed by the early […]

Anzac Day – this year is a time to meditate on war, to honour those who have been required to serve in it, to show and to remember our shared humanity.   Prayer:  Loving God, we come together today in remembrance of Anzac Day celebrated on the 25th April. We remember those who forged the […]

Dear Passionist Family Group Members and Friends,                       We come to this time of our Christian calendars where we stop and reflect on the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus. St Paul of the Cross (founder of the Passionists) stated that,” the most overwhelming act of God’s love is in and through the Passion of Jesus”. […]

Dear Passionist Family group members and friends,      Palm Sunday – its significance should never be lost on us. Jesus in starting out on his ministry knew at some stage he would have to take this message with all the threats, insecurities, fears and challenges to the central city of Jerusalem. The faith centre of Judaism. […]

Dear Passionist Family Group members and friends, Another week passes and this week we see one of the most powerful gospel stories, from John’s gospel, the adulterous woman. It is yet another story that teaches us so much about the mind and heart of Jesus and therefore, the God he spoke about. This God, is […]

Dear Passionist  Family Group members and friends ,                                                                 Another week passes and the war in Ukraine wages on as does the impact of Covid across the planet and then there are the efeects of price hikes and  the trying to makes ends meet. All this asks for sober reading and reflection. We here in […]

Dear Passionist Family Group members and friends, It is a worrying time across the planet and there are a multitude of reactions and responses some positive and some very negative.  Those negative ones continue to get the most airplay and of those we have the horror and injustice facing Ukraine. It still astounds how the […]