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32ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 11 NOVEMBER 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
32ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 11 NOVEMBER 2018
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23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 9 September 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 9 September 2018
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14TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 08 JULY 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
14TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 08 JULY 2018
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13TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 01 JULY 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
13TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 01 JULY 2018
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Sunday, 1st July 2018 - Year B - 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
Sunday, 1st July 2018 - Year B - 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
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The Nativity of St John the Baptist - Sunday 24 June 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
The Nativity of St John the Baptist - Sunday 24 June 2018
Today’s celebration centres on God’s “speaker” John the Baptist. Our Lord Jesus was priest, prophet and king. As prophet He spoke the Father’s Word to the people.
Through our Baptism into Christ all of us have a share, a participation in the priestly, prophetic role of Christ. Let me emphasise for us all today the dimension of prophecy. How is your prophetic activity? What is that? – many of us might ask. To put it another way, how are we doing at speaking out for God in the various situations of life around us? Some people will say that that is the business of the Church, by which they mean bishops and clergy. But we are the church all of us who are baptised. It is our Baptism that confers on all of us this prophetic role. To be a prophet or not to foretell things but to go forth and tell God’s mind. It is to be a voice for him so that people can judge their actions, can see wrong and do something about it. That is what John the Baptist was – a fearless speaker for God to the people, to soldiers, tax collectors and even to Herod the king.
Prophets are not popular people. They are a thorn in the flesh of those who don’t want to hear what they are saying. In the face of truth, people are challenged to repent and change. The grace of God and the support of a caring community enable lives and situations to be radically altered. For evil to thrive, it is enough that good people do nothing. Each of us has to honestly face the question: how active or inactive is my prophetic activity.
John the Baptist was born to be God’s speaker. And each of us was baptised to be one too.
Father Michael Stieller
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The Nativity of St John the Baptist - Sunday 24 June 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
The Nativity of St John the Baptist - Sunday 24 June 2018
Today’s celebration centres on God’s “speaker” John the Baptist. Our Lord Jesus was priest, prophet and king. As prophet He spoke the Father’s Word to the people.
Through our Baptism into Christ all of us have a share, a participation in the priestly, prophetic role of Christ. Let me emphasise for us all today the dimension of prophecy. How is your prophetic activity? What is that? – many of us might ask. To put it another way, how are we doing at speaking out for God in the various situations of life around us? Some people will say that that is the business of the Church, by which they mean bishops and clergy. But we are the church all of us who are baptised. It is our Baptism that confers on all of us this prophetic role. To be a prophet or not to foretell things but to go forth and tell God’s mind. It is to be a voice for him so that people can judge their actions, can see wrong and do something about it. That is what John the Baptist was – a fearless speaker for God to the people, to soldiers, tax collectors and even to Herod the king.
Prophets are not popular people. They are a thorn in the flesh of those who don’t want to hear what they are saying. In the face of truth, people are challenged to repent and change. The grace of God and the support of a caring community enable lives and situations to be radically altered. For evil to thrive, it is enough that good people do nothing. Each of us has to honestly face the question: how active or inactive is my prophetic activity.
John the Baptist was born to be God’s speaker. And each of us was baptised to be one too.
Father Michael Stieller
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The Nativity of St John the Baptist - Year B - Sunday 24 June 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
The Nativity of St John the Baptist - Year B - Sunday 24 June 2018
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Sunday 17th June 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
Sunday 17th June 2018
‘SERVING GOD AND OUR NEIGHBOUR’ MARK 4:26-34 The first words of today’s reading from St Paul sums up the theme of the Mass – “We always full of confidence” God is with us all the time, he has given us his word. He always remains faithful. He has sent his Son Jesus Christ, to live among us, to be one of us, not only to suffer with us and for us, but to lift us up. To enable us not only to be God’s people, but to be his sons and daughters. We have every reason to be full of confidence and to live in joyful hope.
The Church started from very small beginnings. The apostles, Our Blessed Lady, a small group of disciples were all Jesus left behind him to carry out his mission to teach all nations and baptise in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The Church is the Body of Christ; its growth depends in the power of God and the work of the ‘Spirit’. But God in his wisdom has entrusted us, the cells who make up the Body, with the work he began with Christ.
Christ is the vine, we are the branches. The continued life of the Church has been given to each one of us and to all of us. We can always be full of confidence, but never complacent. God has shown that he believes in us and will support us when we try to do our part in his word. “I rescue all who cling to me, I protect whoever knows my name I answer everyone who invokes me I am with them, when they are in trouble I bring them safety and honour. I give them life in full And show them how I can save”. Anonymous.
Father Michael Stieller
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11th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B - 17th June 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B - 17th June 2018
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10th Sunday in Ordinary Time - 10th June 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
10th Sunday in Ordinary Time - 10th June 2018
‘THE DIVIDED KINGDOM’
MARK 3:20-35 Jesus said that a kingdom which is divided cannot stand. It doesn’t require much reflection to see the truth of this. We see countries where there is internal conflict torn asunder for instance the Middle East today.
We see the breakup families in which there is conflict. The problem affects us on a personal level too. Each of us is a divided kingdom. We are divided within ourselves; we are pulled in opposite directions. There is a war going on inside each of us, a war between light and darkness, good and evil. This is what St Paul was talking about when he said “the good which I want to do, I do not do; the evil which I want to avoid, I find myself doing.”
Sin divides each of us in two: part of us is pulling with God and part of us is pulling against God. Sin is not something we can throw off once and for all like an old garment. Rather, it is a condition in which we live. What is important is not so much our failures as our struggle for goodness. Once we are seriously struggling for goodness, we are facing in the right direction, and we are on the side of Christ.
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A kingdom that is divided within itself cannot stand. I myself am a divided kingdom.
The good that I want to do, I do not do. The evil that I want to avoid I find myself doing.
I am like a field in which wheat and weeds are struggling for supremacy.
Who will save me from myself You, Lord who overpowered satan will heal division within me and help me to take complete possession of my house.
Then I shall be free, united and at peace.
Father Michael Stieller
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10th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B - 10th June 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
10th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B - 10th June 2018
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Body and Blood of Christ - Sunday 3 June 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
Body and Blood of Christ - Sunday 3 June 2018
When we describe somebody as a “practising Catholic” we mean more than anything else that that person takes part – with some regularity at least – in the celebration of the Eucharist. Such a person accepts the Bread of Life which is offered by Jesus and which gives eternal life. The Eucharist is the central act of Christian worship. But it is more than that. It is at the heart of the meaning of the Church. To belong to the Church means to be united with Christ and to be united with one another in Christ. It is the Eucharist which brings about that unity. It makes us one with Christ and with one another.
Sharing in the Eucharist is more than just “going to Mass”. It is very much more than just “getting Mass in”. It means bringing the ups and downs of our lives, our work, and our dealings with others, our problems and achievements – bringing all of these to present them to the Father with Jesus Christ. It means listening to God’s word opening our own hearts to Him. It means doing all of this together with our friends and neighbours. We cannot be close to Christ in the Eucharist if we are not close to Him in the people around us. It is only by accepting the Bread of Life in the Eucharist that we will draw life from Christ as He tells us in today’s Gospel.
It is only then that we can be described as “practising Catholics” in the full sense.
Father Michael Stieller
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The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ - Year B - Sunday 3rd June 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ - Year B - Sunday 3rd June 2018
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"MAN FOR OTHERS" - Sunday 27th May 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
"MAN FOR OTHERS" - Sunday 27th May 2018
All throughout the history of the Church, attempts have been made to put into language the Church’s belief on the Trinity. When I was on my third year of theology, one of my subjects was ‘The Trinity of Love’. Our professor tried to open the Pandora box on the mystery of the Trinity.
Allow me to share with you her very concise summary:
“The Father gives everything of himself to the Son. The Son who is generated by the Father’s act of giving, gives everything of what He is back to the Father. This mutual self-giving of Father and Son becomes a person in the Spirit who proceeds from both Father and Son and who gives everything of what He is back to Father and Son. The giving of oneself to another out of love is what characterizes life in the Trinity. Not existing for oneself but for the other is at the heart of who God is.”
(Dr Anne Hunt OAM)
If this is what characterizes God, then we human beings must be stamped with this characteristic because it is in that image that we were created. If we go through the human life of Jesus we see unmistakable characteristics that stand out. Jesus is really a MAN FOR OTHERS. Jesus never existed for himself; he existed for God and for one’s neighbour. If Jesus is the pattern and example of what it means to live as a human being; if Jesus is the human expression of what it means to live as image of God, I can therefore conclude that living only for oneself is never the end of the human being. In fact, living only for oneself is the source of all human problems. It’s a very lonely existence and it leads nowhere but to frustration because selfishness is a dead end.
Yes, I miss the point of my being human if I live only for myself. God created us for wider purposes than the narrow limits of our self-concern. We can taste the beauty of what we were created for only if we are brave enough to get out of our selfishness and live for the good of others, to live as God in whose image we were created.
Fr. Marlon Peter Maylon, SVD
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Trinity Sunday - Year B - 27th May 2018 - Holy Spirit Parish, Te Wairua Tapu
Trinity Sunday - Year B - 27th May 2018
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