Morena/ Passionist Family Group members and friends, This coming weekend and the following we will be celebrating 35 years of Passionist Family Groups in Aotearoa-New Zealand. (Paeroa and East Coast Bays). This milestone follows the 50th anniversary celebrated in Terrey Hill, Sydney on May 6th.  Occasions such as this allow us to reflect on what […]

Morena/ Passionist Family Group members and friends, Pentecost is celebrated 50 days after Easter – it is a Feast that celebrates the birth of the church and is a testimony of the Holy Spirit firing its form of a flame on the apostles. We know that the form of a flame is wild, enticing and […]

Dear Passionist Family Group members and friends, Well I am back at it – lovely meeting on Monday night with Plimmerton Parish PFG Coordinators. Next preparing for the photo presentation for the 35th anniversary. Newsletter for my local parish and our PFG one. I am now in Christchurch catching up on the relaunch for Christchurch […]

Morena/Passionist Family Group members and friends, I won’t write much at this stage as I am in Australia and I just wanted to share what Brian, my brother had written on Passionist Family Group Have a good weekend and week. Happy Mother’s Day on Sunday  Kind regards and blessings, Paul Sixth Sunday of Easter Year […]

Morena/ Good Morning Passionist Family Group members and friends, I hope this finds you well and that life is treating you well. Some warm days this week. I cooked a BBQ last night and I think that is the first time ever in May. I will be travelling to Sydney to celebrate the 50th Anniversary […]

Morena/ Good Morning Passionist Family Group members and friends, The Road to Emmaus Gospel encourages us to be awake as we walk the road being open to see Jesus in others, in the events, people, experiences, the natural world, and the universe. To this end, we join with the Passionists in the Holy Spirit Province  (Australia/New […]

Morena/ Good Morning Passionist Family Group members and friends, This is a special time on our church and faith calendar. The Easter Triduum where we remember and commemorate the themes associated with Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Saturday. These are moments where we are given sustenance through the Eucharist but more the importance of […]

Good afternoon, Passionist Family Group members and friends, Over the past few weeks I have encountered many people who are really struggling or battling odds  and it does take its toll. Being Catholic, Christian or any other denomination does not shelter us from the ebb and flow of life. In listening to people with their […]

Morena/ Good morning, Passionist Family Group members and friends, Well another week has gone as we embark on another. We are passed the half way mark for the Lenten season. It had been a busy week and then last weekend I have three lovely days at Waihi Beach with my wife Clare, her sister’s Brigid, […]

Morena/ Good morning, Passionist Family Group members and friends, What another week it has been for Northland, Coromandel, Gisborne and Hawkes Bay with a huge deluge of rain soaking an already soaked landscape. How quickly have the criticisms of not enough done and progress being too slow. It is difficult in an age where we […]