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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ This coming week, I am leaving for Japan. My son and I will spend some time in Tokyo and go on a ski trip to Nagano for 3 days before flying to Hiroshima to spend time with my parents. In Hiroshima, I will be spending most of the time

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ Happy New Year! & A Blessed Epiphany! I hope you have experienced moments of joy and wonder and beauty in these past few weeks, and I hope your faith was refreshed by the story of God coming among us.  I also hope you feel renewed in your awareness of

Dear AGAC whanau, Hope you had a blessed Christmas. It was lovely to see many of you, your family and friends, people from St John Paul II Catholic Church, and people from our neighbours on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I am away from 29th to 2nd January with my family. It will be an interesting

Dear AGAC friends, Each week during Advent, we have watched our world slowly being brightened with the lighting of each candle.  On this last Sunday of Advent, we are lighting the last candle on our Advent wreath that we have patiently been waiting to light, the candle of love.  As we look at these four

Joy. It is the candle we light this week. Joy is a strange thing. It is not a word we use that often. Joy is something we immediately connect with smiles, happiness, pleasure, fun. Taking a moment myself, here is a small sampling of the ways I experience joy: ·      watching my dog sleeping peacefully on