Our initiatives this year focus on pastoral outreach and making our leadership structures fit our quasi-parish of Kotahi Ano.
Pastor’s Desk – Wrapping UP 2022
Thanks to those who provided Advent Gospel Reflection and best wishes for Christmas
Advent – Gaudete Sunday
Joyful Sunday and the change in direction
Pastor’s Desk – Crisis is designing the Church
The recent clergy moves have prompted conversations about the “state of the church”, the lack of priests, and the future of parishes and the diocese. Parishes are not collapsing, but the nineteenth-century diocesan structure is.
Advent – Challenging the Limitations of Culture
In a world where each culture is equally good and equally valuable, it seems insulting to suggest that they are not of equal value and that cultures need to be critiqued objectively, that is, from the outside.
Pastor’s Desk- Liturgy – Advent a Time of Expectation and Joy
Advent is a time of expectation and joy originally linked to baptism
Pastor’s Desk – Listening to Each Other is a Christian Virtue
Sharing and making space for each other and the stranger takes effort and patience. It requires an act of gratitude of mind and heart.
Pastor’s Desk – Pleading for forgiveness!
Pope Francis, in 2019 after inviting the South Sudan leaders to the Vatican, stooped down and kissed their feet, pleading with them for the killings to stop in that country.
School in the Parish and Parish in the School
School in the Parish and Parish in the School is a relationship we need to foster and take responsibility for…
Pastor’s Desk – The Church is Always being Reformed.
The Church is not static, yet some people are in a time warp, stuck and stunted because of the rigidity they cling to. Their comments reflect a Church that was not the Church that is.
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