On Friday we celebrated of the Feast of St Mary the Mother of Jesus. We know from the Gospel according to Luke that Mary was a young Jewish girl living in Nazareth.

Each school’s context is different but for any teaching programme to be effective the engagement of the school Principal and teachers is vital.

All that makes us thrive, young and old, is within the great sweep of God’s love for all creation, which is the pulsing movement of God’s Spirit that makes its way by touching people, at particular times and in particular places.

It is through Christ, in his name, that we share in all the benefits of his death and resurrection and God’s sanctuary is opened for us.

Living as a follower of Jesus is not easy but we follow a God who cannot fail to love us. If we accept this, then we accept that we are called to join God in loving others.

It’s a psalm in which nothing is hidden from God, and God is found in the midst of the distress as well as in the deliverance from it.

It’s a chance to share thoughts and ideas on the topic, and discuss in a small group. There’s no obligation to say anything and there’s nothing you can’t say.

In 1990, and with the inclusion of the Diocese of Polynesia, the Anglican Church formed a new constitution, Te Pouhere, that would bind us together as one church in Christ, yet living in Three Tikanga or cultural streams.

The doctrine of the Trinity is one of the central Christian affirmations about God, the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead - one God existing in three coeternal, consubstantial divine persons.