Good afternoon Passionist Family Group Members and friends,   Last week went well in Auckland with positive meetings with Helensvale and East Coast Bays Group coordinators and the following night with St Heliers, Howick and Pt Chev group coordinators. On the weekend, with the assistance of Lindsay Brand , Anthony and Jo Moorcroft, Brendan and […]

Dear Passionist Family Group members and friends,   I thought I would share a brilliant, insightful, and very challenging reflection from last Sunday by Passionist Fr Giltus Mathias CP living in Australia but born and raised in India. He wrote this reflection for the 20th Sunday of Ordinary time.   “I was home, India, for […]

Dear Passionist Family Group members and friends,  I hope this finds you well and slowly getting yourselves back to some kind of normalcy. There has been a lot of fear and loss over these past couple of years and many have felt a decline in confidence, in going out to meet others, in contacting people […]

Good afternoon, I am sitting at Wellington Airport where flights have been delayed, suspended, and then ultimately cancelled due to another bad weather event. Such is life! Still, it gives me time to plan and think about things. Luckily, I have been able to rebook on a flight that is scheduled to depart at 7.05pm […]

Morena, Another week passes and I have been grateful yet again for the courage, compassion and support our Passionist family Groups are giving to one another. With another spike in Covid it is timely that we continue to take practical precautions and do the basic as advised by our health professionals. Our response should and […]

Dear Passionist Family Group members and friends, The gospel this Sunday of the sending out of the 72 disciples to visit places before Jesus does. There are some harsh realities he outlines and the first and most necessary is; ‘it won’t be easy’. ” I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Carry no […]

  Morena, Good morning Passionist Family Group members and friends,                                              Over the past 40 weeks I have shared with you much about the importance of connections. No matter how big or small these connections – they breathe life, love and hope into people’s minds and hearts. We are better people when we are serving and […]

Good afternoon Passionist Family Group members and friends, This weekend we celebrate the Feast of the Church – Pentecost we also join the world for World Environment Day and of course we join the UK and Commonwealth celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Set a Fire – https://youtu.be/-Jzqq4B8H2Q So, to this end the […]

Morena – Good morning to our PFG members and friends, I am sitting in Hawkes Bay at Rob and Lynn’s Hill’s home after a lovely long walk-in brilliant sunshine. It is an idyllic setting for thinking and reflecting. I have once again been facing people who have been dedicated to Passionist Family Groups and looking […]

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 […]