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food for faith: foodforfaith - new beginning
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Saturday, December 21, 2013. Foodforfaith - new beginning. Over the last few years this foodforfaith blog has grown far beyond my original intentions and expectations. Several thousand people visit the foodforfaith blogger site every week, and our statistics show that most people spend a good amount of time reading several posts on each visit. Foodforfaith seems to be meeting a need. This section of the site will be updated most regularly and is made up of written entries. Here you can view a selection o...
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food for faith: nativity difficulty
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013. Earlier today I visited the home of parishioners who had just finished setting up a nativity scene in their living room. It was prepared with love, beautifully created, and was even illuminated with the manger awaiting the Christ child the most brightly lit part of the stable. Soon after the conception of Jesus, Mary and Joseph would have faced considerable pressures and the threat of scandal. Imagine the moment when Mary breaks the news of her pregnancy to her parents A...
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Sabbatical 2010: St. John Vianney
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010. It is the feast day of St John Vianney. A couple of months ago, at the June close of the "Year of the Priest", Pope Benedict pronounced the Cure of Ars (St John Vianney) the patron of all priests. The term patron is in common usage today. Sports clubs and other groups have patrons. But when a saint is named a patron, well this is something quite different. Posted by John O'Connor. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 8220;This is the point:. By our betrayal,. By our crude,.
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Sabbatical 2010: another new month
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Sunday, August 1, 2010. Today is the first day of August. A new month. A new beginning. I blogged about the gift of the new month as a new beginning on the first day of July. Today is not only a new month but also Sunday. The beginning of a new week with God. We celebrate this new start every week as we gather to celebrate "the Lord's day" with the Mass. You are probably now trying to work out how much of your allocation you have used! Some of you will be in overtime! That is pure gift from God. One of t...
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Sabbatical 2010: church architecture & Ignatius
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Saturday, July 31, 2010. Church architecture and Ignatius. This morning I was at the burial place of. St Ignatius of Loyola. For Mass to celebrate his feast day, 31 July, the anniversary of his death in 1556. The. Church of the Gesu. Is a magnificent temple to the glory of God. It was clearly built by people who rejoiced that Ignatius had helped them to know God's presence with them and God's love for them. Take a moment to think about churches that were built more than 100 years ago in New Zealand. ...
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Sabbatical 2010: A.M.D.G.
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Saturday, July 31, 2010. Many of us remember beginning every new page of school work with the heading amD.G. A good number of us also recall that the letters stood fo. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, (For the Greater Glory of God). It was Ignatius of Loyola (feast day today) who coined the prayer 'for the greater glory of God'. This became the 'motto' for the Religious Order he founded, the Society of Jesus. Posted by John O'Connor. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Church architecture and Ignatius.
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Sabbatical 2010: perspective
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010. One of the most effective stories I use is borrowed from. Robert Wicks, an American psychologist. He tells of the young woman leaving home to study in a far-off city. After some months she writes to her father who has begun to worry about her. You can read the story here. At the end of her letter, the daughter gives the father a vivid lesson in the importance of retaining perspective in life. It is only when one stands at a marked point in the centre of the corridor that the imag...
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food for faith: celebrating life?
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013. Today a friend posted this blog posting on funerals on his Facebook page. Thanks Pete for sharing this - a very helpful reflection. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). New website www.foodforfaith.org.nz. Foodforfaith - new beginning. You did know this. 7 more sleeps - O wisdom. Cohen and Francis in conversation? Save us from the optimists. Time, Francis and Barron. Person of the year. Happy birthday S.C. Trent, 450 years later. The angel of the Lord. The Depth of Life.
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food for faith: advent encouragement
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Saturday, December 7, 2013. This is Pope Francis' first Advent so we have not yet heard much from him about the mission of these pre-Christmas days. This gives us the opportunity to savour some of the Advent reflections of Pope Benedict. This, from the First Vespers of Advent, 2009. The Apostle Paul invites us to prepare for "the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ", with God's grace keeping ourselves blameless. The exact word Paul uses is "coming", in Latin adventus, from which the term "Advent" derives.
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food for faith: Thomas Merton
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013. Born: 31 January 1915. Died: 10 December 1968. One of the great spiritual classics of the twentieth century is Thomas Merton's Seven Story Mountain. Within minutes of its publication in 1948 it became a best-seller, and one of the books most read by people who were seeking God both within and without the Church through the 1950's and '60's. Following this early spiritual autobiography, Merton went on to share a string of inspirational writings, and a Merton website. Time, Fran...
