The Gift of Holy Saturday
I answer that it was fitting for Christ to be buried… because by Christ’s rising from the grave, to them who are in the grave,...
I answer that it was fitting for Christ to be buried… because by Christ’s rising from the grave, to them who are in the grave,...
Welcome to Holy Week, the week in which the Church follows in the footsteps of Jesus’s suffering and death. In his progress through betrayal, arrest...
On Wednesday, 17 February, people of faith all around the world will gather in churches to have someone mark a cross on their forehead with...
Beginning with Ash Wednesday (17 February), churches the world over will be entering into the Lenten season. Over the next 40 days, we’re invited to...
Kia ora, After a full and challenging year, we’re pleased to bring you the last edition of Common Ground for 2020. This edition focuses on the season...
Images: Juanita Madden, December 2020, Watercolour with gold paint on paper This Advent, my imagination has been captured by the evocation that, while awaiting the birth...
The ox and the ass and a couple of shepherds from the fields celebrated the first Christmas. Above this manger, however, heaven was torn open....
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. Isaiah 9:2 I grew...
The Church begins preparing for Christmas on or about December 1, walks through four weeks of meditation on why Jesus needed to come and what...
"God had seen the misery of the world and had come personally to help. Now God was there, not as a powerful God, but concealed...