2025

  Learn from Mary Magdalene – it’s her feast day

Jul 22, 2025
There was a special relationship between Jesus and Mary of Magdala. If we want to deepen our relationship with Jesus, we need to learn from Mary
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  Awareness of God's presence

Jul 21, 2025
In today's readings we hear stories of people who are unable to see the good things that God was doing for them in their lives.
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  Remembering the first Passover meal

Jul 18, 2025
The prophet Isaiah reminds us that God's thoughts are not our thoughts and that our ways are not his ways. (Isaiah 55:8). Today's readings show us the truth of those words.
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  “Shoulder my yoke and learn from me”

Jul 17, 2025
The two readings for today, from Exodus 3:13-20 and Matthew 11:28-30, speak of how encounter with God can result in opposite effects
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  "I have heard the cries of the people ..."

Jul 16, 2025
Today's first reading from Exodus 3:1-6, 9-12 is considered to be one of the most important parts of the Old Testament. Moses is looking after a flock of sheep in the wilderness when he saw a blazing bush that was not being burnt up
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  Celebrating the feast of St Benedict

Jul 11, 2025
Today's readings bring us an important teaching about how God works in our lives and about our relationship with others.
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  Be careful not to make rash judgements

Jul 01, 2025
I grew up in Napier, New Zealand, a town that was hit by one of the deadliest earthquakes in New Zealand’s history. It was February 3, 1931. It registered 7.8 on the seismic scale.
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