Fr Peter Murphy – NZ Catholic Newspaper https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Thu, 27 Apr 2017 03:34:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 Fr Murphy encourages silence at Mass https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/03/08/fr-murphy-encourages-silence-mass/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/03/08/fr-murphy-encourages-silence-mass/#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:30:21 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=14650 Papakura parish priest Fr Peter Murphy is encouraging priests in Auckland diocese to practise three minutes of silence after Communion.  Fr Murphy, the diocese’s director for contemplative prayer, said a moment of quiet in the frenetic pace of life is a means of healing one’s soul. Fr Murphy is also a member of the New Zealand Community for Christian Meditation. “The silence,

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]]> https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/03/08/fr-murphy-encourages-silence-mass/feed/ 1 New Auckland school site blessed https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2015/11/06/new-auckland-school-site-blessed/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2015/11/06/new-auckland-school-site-blessed/#respond Thu, 05 Nov 2015 22:11:06 +0000 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=11879 by PETER GRACE Finding the site of a yet-to-be built primary school in a semi-rural area before dawn proves a challenge. A few figures in a driveway take some form in the gloom. “Is this the school?” “Yes,” with a laugh. The ceremony for the turning of the first sod on the site of Holy

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]]> https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2015/11/06/new-auckland-school-site-blessed/feed/ 0 Ugandan priest takes two-year break in NZ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2013/05/21/ugandan-priest-takes-two-year-break-in-nz/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2013/05/21/ugandan-priest-takes-two-year-break-in-nz/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 05:12:26 +0000 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=5414 by PETER GRACE AUCKLAND — A change is as good as a rest for Ugandan priest Fr John Vianney Makanda, in St Mary’s parish, Papakura. Fr Makanda told NZ Catholic that he was at St Mary’s on a two-year sabbatical from his diocese of Fort Portal in western Uganda. He was ordained in 1995, he

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