Dean’s Blog - 2019

Homily for Fifth Sunday of Easter

Your mission is to love one another as the Lord has loved us. It may seem like mission impossible. How does he love his disciples? To the end. He loves ...

Homily for Fourth Sunday of Easter

Our experience of shepherding in this land – I suspect for most of us it would come from television screens – with flocks of thousands of sheep, the sheep dog, the pastoralist ...

Easter homily

The Lord is risen! He is risen indeed! For whom did he rise? He lived, died and rises for his first disciples, for us, generations of disciples later, he died and rises ...

Homily for 31 March

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Justice for refugees

Come along to show your support for a more compassionate approach to refugees. We have a duty toward our brothers and sisters who, for various reasons, have been forced to leave ...

Homily for 17 March

Today as we wend our way through Lent, in our readings we are caught up in stories of hope. Hope first for Abraham, two thousand years before Christ, an old man and ...

Prayers for Christchurch victims

I invite you to pray for all those killed and maimed in body, mind or spirit in the appalling attack in Christchurch. They will be remembered in the prayers of ...

Homily for 10 March

Do you remember the scene in Return of the Jedi.... The devil may come across as an incompetent tester in the Gospel passage, but that is only because the light of ...

Homily for 17 February

Blessed or happy are you who are poor.  I have glimpsed and lived amongst poverty which is hard to imagine in the West, but I have done it from a ...

Homily for 10 February

We have two calls today. The church offers us the call of Isaiah in the first reading to help us reflect on the call of Simon and the other disciples ...