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  Anzac Day 2024

Apr 25, 2024
Today is a holiday here in Aotearoa-New Zealand. It is ANZAC day. It is a day on which we remember one of the most disastrous campaigns in military history.
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  Choosing Barnabas

Apr 24, 2024
Today the first reading from Acts 12:24-13:5, relates the most important missionary event of the early church.
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  Like ripples in a pond

Apr 23, 2024
Today's first reading from the Acts of the Apostles 11:19-26 is a revealing text about the spread of the early Church. The message about Jesus was carried across the western Mediterranean world, to the towns of Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch. It was inevitable.
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  Reflecting further on the image of the shepherd

Apr 22, 2024
Yesterday we celebrated Good Shepherd Sunday and today John's gospel continues with Jesus applying the image of the shepherd to himself.
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  Holy Thursday 2024

Mar 28, 2024
It is one thing to have the audacity to take bread and say, “This is my body” and then take the cup filled with wine and say, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood.” But it is quite another to wash the feet of a sister or brother.
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  Why did Judas do what he did?

Mar 27, 2024
Judas Iscariot had been a disciple of Jesus for several years yet in today's gospel (Matthew 26:14-25), we hear how he went to the chief priests and asked how much they would give him if he handed Jesus over to them.
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  Mary anoints the feet of Jesus

Mar 25, 2024
Yesterday we began Holy Week with the Palm Sunday re-enactment of the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.
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