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Lambing season is underway again. We also look after a few orphan lambs that have been bottle-fed. These little creatures bring a lot of joy to the Community and our visitors.

We have been blessed with many wonderful groups who have stayed in Nazareth and Bethlehem over the last year. The common theme with all these groups has been the peace that they have found at Cross Creek. We as a … Continued

The desire of the St. Bernard’s Community to develop their social justice programme led to a brainstorm to go on retreat to discuss how we could make this happen. We wanted to involve the students in a social justice action … Continued

At the end of April the community was blessed to be led in a community retreat by Fr David Kennerley SM. The retreat built on an earlier retreat which he had given to us and challenged us to contemplate how … Continued

By Marie Andrewartha Hi we’re the ‘Fati-mas’ a woman’s group from Our Lady of Fatima church Tawa! In 2001 we discovered the Magnificat Community Retreat Centre. It’s an oasis, in the midst of our busyness and every year we return … Continued