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Dear friends of Albany Greenhithe Parish This Sunday is the First Sunday in Advent and the beginning of a new Church year, Year C. Our Gospel readings for this new year will primarily be from the Gospel of Luke. As you may know, “Advent” (the Latin word adventus) means “coming,” and this is the time of preparing […]

Dear friends of Albany Greenhithe Parish This Sunday we are celebrating the festival of the Reign of Christ, his dominion over all aspects of our lives. It marks the end of the Liturgical Year with the tone not of fear or despair, but one of hope. For Christ, his understanding of ‘Kingdom’ was illustrated through

Dear AGAC friends On Tuesday, I attended Albany Youth Project Hui which was held at Albany community Hub. There were around 25 people from various organisations in our local community; student leaders from Albany Senior Highschool, Church youth leaders, counsellors, representatives from I.Lead ( a disabled youth movement group), sports facilitators, Pacifika and Asian youth

Dear AGAC friends Last Friday I visited St. Michael’s in Greenhithe to discuss several things with Bruce and Mike, a pastor in Shore Grace Church who is also worshipping there. We had a good catch up and prayed for each other and community in Greenhithe.  When I was about to leave, we saw two white

9th Nov (Saturday) at Holy Cross Starting at 6:30 Please put your name and how many people are coming on the list this Sunday giving us an idea of numbers coming.  If anyone needs any dietary requirements (vegetarian, gluten free, dairy free, egg free etc), please write that down.  Alternatively, let the office know by

Dear AGAC friends All Saints Day was started in the eighth century by the Catholic Church as a day to commemorate all the ‘official’ Saints or martyrs who didn’t already have a specific day of remembrance. For the church today, it has become a day for celebrating all those followers of Jesus whose lives inspire

Dear AGAC friends Do you enjoy reflecting on Christian art? I do. In my recent retreat, we spent a lot of time reflecting on Rembrandt’s painting of Return of the Prodigal Son (see right). The painting really enhanced my understanding of the story in Luke 15, and spoke to my heart quite powerfully. The canvas

Dear AGAC friends On Monday, Rev. Junko Preston arrived in Auckland, and visited Holy Cross on Tuesday to share her story. We had a blessing time. She is the first Japanese female priest who was ordained to the priesthood in the Anglican Church in the world in late 80s.  Her ordination helped other Japanese women

Kia ora e te whānau a te Karaiti Thanks to your support and prayers, I had a wonderful 2-night retreat at St. Mary Mackillop retreat Centre in Mission Bay last weekend.   Though the retreat was facilitated by a spiritual director with eight retreatants, it was taken in silence most of the time (apart from talking

Dear friends of AGAC, On Wednesday, a group of us went to Patrick and Diana’s place in Riverhead for a half-day retreat. (The photos in the coversheet of this newsletter were taken on that day.) In the retreat, each one of us had a little walk in their lovely garden, took time to see/smell/hear/touch God’s