Third Sunday of Lent – What do we thirst for?
This week’s reflection comes from Peter Murnane: Our lives depend upon water. It covers about 70% of the earth’s surface and makes up about 60% of our body. Unless we maintai ...

This week’s reflection comes from Peter Murnane: Our lives depend upon water. It covers about 70% of the earth’s surface and makes up about 60% of our body. Unless we maintai ...
At a conference held in Auckland on 21 February 2026, Fr James Baxter OP delivered a compelling and insightful talk titled “St Dominic, Teacher of Truth.” Although the wider confer ...
Thomas Merton wrote, “There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.” Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander We are so blessed in A ...
Aquinas Conference 2026: The Beauty of Truth On Saturday we had the Aquinas Conference in Auckland. In the first talk “Portraits of a Saint,” Br Kolbe Garcia offered a deeply huma ...
In his Ash Wednesday reflection from Santa Sabina—the ancient Dominican basilica in Rome where the Pope traditionally begins Lent—Fr Patrick highlights three meaningful reasons why ...
Lenten Reflection – Ash Wednesday Lent begins with the quiet, disruptive honesty of ashes traced on our foreheads. In a world overflowing with noise, urgency, and uncertainty, this ...
Mary Eastham has shared about a new publication from the Religious Diversity Centre’s Climate Action Group. It was launched last Sunday, 1 February at the Palmerston North Ci ...
Pier Giorgio Frassati (6 April 1901 – 4 July 1925) was an Italian Catholic activist and a lay Dominican. He was dedicated to Catholic social justice issues and joined several char ...
Yesterday, 26 April 2025, over 80 people gathered at St Dominic’s Parish Blockhouse Bay for the launch and blessing of the book Preachers, Pastors, Prophets – The Domin ...
