15 Minutes With The Bishop

15 Minutes with the Bishop: Hell

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:49:34 +0000

Is it a place of fire and brimstone, or wailing and gnashing of teeth? Is it a place that is simply an absence of God? Whatever the reality, the Catholic Church continues to hold to the idea of a place called Hell. What is the Church’s understanding of Hell? Has it changed over the years? How does a loving God allow people to end up in Hell? Bishop Patrick talks with Gavin about those questions in the latest episode of 15 Minutes with the Bishop.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: Augustine and Monica

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:07:50 +0000

Over the next two days, the Catholic Church honours a couple of great figures in Christian history: St Augustine and his mother, St Monica. St Augustine is often seen as a bit of a prodigal son — someone who strayed but then returned to the Faith. As Bishop Patrick points out in this week’s episode of 15 Minutes with the Bishop, how far Augustine strayed might be at question, but his mark on the early Church is not in dispute. Neither is the faith of his mother, who prayed constantly for her son’s conversion back to the religion she tried to pass on to him.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: Holy Days

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:47:22 +0000

Last week, Catholics in New Zealand celebrated the Feast of the Assumption, and last week’s episode of 15 Minutes with the Bishop was on that topic. This week, Bishop Patrick talks about holy days of obligation, of which the Assumption is one in New Zealand and in some other countries around the world. How has the number of holy days changed? Is Sunday a holy day of obligation? And what about the idea in the UK of re-instating holy days of obligation?

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: The Assumption

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:46:20 +0000

August 15 marks the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, one of the Church’s great Marian feasts. It is a cause for great celebration throughout the Catholic world, but especially in New Zealand, where it is the patronal feast day. In this episode, Bishop Patrick talks with Gavin about the feast, the different understandings of the Assumption and some of the Catholic doctrines relating to Our Lady.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: World Youth Day

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:20:07 +0000

After talking about pilgrimages in general last week, Bishop Patrick talks this week about a specific pilgrimage: World Youth Day. Started by Pope John Paul II and considered one of the late pontiff’s great legacies, this year’s World Youth Day will be held in Madrid later this month. Bishop Patrick talks about the impact of World Youth Day, his own experiences and upcoming events to celebrate World Youth Day in his own Diocese of Auckland.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: Pilgrimages

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:15:58 +0000

For centuries, Christians have visited holy sites in an attempt to grow closer to God and to people who lived close to God. From the Holy Land, where Jesus himself walked, talked, taught and performed miracles, to places like Lourdes where Our Lady appeared to a young girl, people have had their lives changed. In this week’s episode, Bishop Patrick talks with Gavin about some of the major pilgrimage sites around the world, and a few here in New Zealand. He also talks about the spiritual benefits of making a pilgrimage.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: Family

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:24:29 +0000

July 26 is the Feast of Sts Joachim and Anne, the couple traditionally understood to be the parents of the Virgin Mary. In this week’s episode of 15 Minutes of the Bishop, Bishop Patrick Dunn and Gavin start with a brief discussion on these two saints of the Church, but quickly move on to the Catholic understanding of the family, including the role of parents as providers and as educators for their children.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: New Mass translation

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:31:49 +0000

Last month, some parishes in Australia started to introduce the new English translation of the Mass. New Zealand was several months ahead, introducing the people’s parts of the new translation last November. Bishop Patrick Dunn talks about the implementation of the new translation, how it’s been received and when we should expect to hear some of the other parts of the translation. He also talks with Gavin about the decision to return to the use of the “old” Our Father for Masses in New Zealand.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: Tradition

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:42:56 +0000

Scripture or Tradition? Tradition or Scripture? In the Catholic Church, it’s a case of both/and. In 15 Minutes with the Bishop this week, Bishop Patrick Dunn and Gavin talk about how Sacred Scripture and the Tradition of the Church have guided her for 20 centuries.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: One man’s vocation

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:33:34 +0000

In previous episodes of 15 Minutes with the Bishop, we;ve covered things happening out in the world. In this week’s show, we get a little more personal, as Gavin talks with Bishop Patrick Dunn about the latter’s priestly vocation. How did his family influence the man who would become Bishop of Auckland? Was there a moment when he knew he had to enter the seminary? Learn answers to those questions and many more in this episode.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: The Papacy

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:35:40 +0000

On June 29, the Church commemorates the lives of two great pillars of Christianity: Sts Peter and Paul. Peter was, of course, the first Pope and in this week’s episode Bishop Patrick Dunn talks with Gavin about the origins of the papacy, the role of the pope and the concept of papal infallibility. New episodes of 15 Minutes with the Bishop are uploaded each Friday.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: Confirmation

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:46:28 +0000

The post-Pentecost season — and even during Eastertide — seems to be the time for parishes to welcome bishops into their midst for Confirmation Masses. In this week’s episode, Bishop Patrick Dunn talks with Gavin about the sacrament of Confirmation. What does it signify? How do we decide the right age for Confirmation? Is there basis for Confirmation in Scripture? Those questions and more are answered in 15 Minutes with the Bishop.?

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: Office of Bishop

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:07:33 +0000

In Palmerston North tomorrow (June 11), Msgr Charles Drennan will be ordained Coadjutor Bishop of Palmerston North. In this episode of 15 Minutes with the Bishop, Bishop Patrick Dunn talks to Gavin about the office of bishop. What are the bishop’s roles? What can he do that a priest can’t? What is a “coadjutor” bishop? Bishop Patrick answers those questions and more in this week’s episode.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: Ascension and Pentecost

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 10:09:54 +0000

Here we are on the eve of two of the great feasts in the Church’s liturgical year: Ascension and Pentecost. Bishop Patrick Dunn talks with Gavin this week about those feasts, what they celebrate and their importance to the life of the Church in the first century and still today.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: Permanent diaconate

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Sun, 29 May 2011 05:18:31 +0000

In this week’s episode, Bishop Patrick Dunn and Gavin talk about the permanent diaconate, a ministry in the Church and part of the sacrament of Holy Orders. The diaconate has its roots in Scripture, but has not been in constant use. It has experienced a resurgence in the past 40 years, including in New Zealand.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: Marriage

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Fri, 20 May 2011 10:03:43 +0000

“Marriage” has been a word on people’s lips in recent weeks with the wedding of Prince William and Princess Catherine. In this week’s episode of 15 Minutes with the Bishop, Bishop Patrick Dunn talks about the very Christian marriage ceremony the royals had, as well as the Catholic understanding of marriage. He also explains why the Catholic Church places such an importance on marriage as a sacrament.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: Celibacy

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Fri, 13 May 2011 06:28:53 +0000

In this week’s episode of 15 Minutes with the Bishop, Bishop Patrick Dunn of Auckland talks with Icon Media’s Gavin Abraham about the origins of priestly celibacy, the tradition of it in the Catholic Church and its practice today. New episodes of this new show are uploaded every Friday.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: Verbum Domini

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Fri, 06 May 2011 03:46:06 +0000

Late last year, Pope Benedict XVI released the apostolic exhortation Verbum Domini, which was his bringing together of the various recommendations and conclusions of the 2008 Synod of Bishops on the Word of God. In this week’s episode of 15 Minutes with the Bishop, Bishop Patrick Dunn offers some insights into the document, which can be accessed on the Vatican website by clicking here.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: John Paul II

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:58:47 +0000

In the second episode of 15 Minutes with the Bishop, Bishop Patrick Dunn talks to Gavin Abraham about this weekend’s beatification of Pope John Paul II, offering some insights into his meetings with the late Pope and the process leading to the celebration in Rome. New episodes of 15 Minutes with the Bishop are released each Friday.

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15 Minutes with the Bishop: Easter

podcast@station15.co.nz (The 15th Station team) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:02:02 +0000

Icon Media launches the newest show on the Station 15 podcast network today, Good Friday: 15 Minutes with the Bishop. In this first episode, Bishop Patrick Dunn of Auckland talks to Gavin Abraham about the great feast of Easter, the high point of the Church’s calendar. Each week, Bishop Patrick will sit down with someone from Icon Media and spend 15 minutes discussing a topic that is important to the Bishop and to the Church. New episodes will be released each Friday.

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