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 […]

Morena/ Good morning, Passionist Family Group members and friends, Do you Evangelise? As soon as we see this word, we recognise that it comes with negative connotations and/or reactions. An Evangelist by definition, is simply someone who spreads ‘good news’. In the Christian tradition that could be one of the four gospel writers or someone […]

Morena – Passionist Family Group members, Clergy and friends,    What a week it has been and the devastation is enormous. One expects these events in Australia but not Auckland. It has been a diaster and people are still trying to deal with it as more rain has descended on Auckland, Northland and Coramandle. My […]

Morena – Passionist Family Group members, Clergy and friends,    I hope this finds you well and rested after Christmas and New Year period.  I received a book written by Michelle Obama titled “The Light we carry’. It was a very enjoyable read and gave me a better understanding of her self, life, background and […]

Morena – Passionist Family Group members, Clergy and friends,    This marvellous Christmas event embraces the message of “Emmanuel – God with us”. Last Sunday, I shared some of the following thoughts: “Sometimes, we romanticise Christmas  and our concentration is on ‘getting and giving presents’ rather than, ‘presence’ to others.  Our consumer society has jingles […]