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  Christmas Novena

Dec 24, 2025
This year I was again blessed by preparing for Christmas by taking part in the Novena of the Latin American community.
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Christmas Novena

  Let us pray for peace

Dec 22, 2025
Are we so afraid of what the future may hold that we refuse to look for or acknowledge signs of promise or of doom?
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Let us pray for peace

  Thank God for environmental activists and volunteers

Dec 11, 2025
As we read in the reading from the prophet Isaiah 41:13-20, God works through the poor and insignificant, the puny and the least. This may not very encouraging
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Thank God for environmental activists and volunteers

  Making the Christmas narrative the centre of our lives

Dec 02, 2025
We have begun Advent, the four weeks dedicated to deepening our faith is the mystery of the God who so loved the world that he sent his only Son to empty himself of his equality with God to be born into our human life
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Making the Christmas narrative the centre of our lives

  Never underestimate the influence you have on others

Nov 06, 2025
“The life and death of each of us has its influence on others”. This is how Paul begins this section of his letter to the Romans (14:7-12) that we read today
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Never underestimate the influence you have on others

  Mission Sunday Gathering

Oct 23, 2025
To mark Mission Sunday 2025, Fr Sunil and Fr John along with members of the Liturgy Group gathered the priests and women religious of Te Awakairangi Parish in Lower Hutt for an evening together.
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Mission Sunday Gathering

  Our Lady of the Rosary

Oct 08, 2025
The origins of the rosary could reach back to the 3rd century when Christian hermits or the Desert Fathers, as they were known, used rope beads to help them focus on their prayers
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Our Lady of the Rosary

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