Nikki Phillips10 August 2011 Not just an appeal for money but also for guitars, wool, material, sewers, teachers, kaumatua for schools, time and talents. On Sunday August 28, the Māori Chaplaincy Appeal will take place in parishes. The chaplaincy helps Maori communities with Masses and the sacraments. We are looking for a small altar, some […]
10 August 2011 In response to a Dominion Post article in June about the lack of wet weather gear and food for some children at a school in the Hutt Valley, the St Joseph’s Upper Hutt Justice, Peace and Development group invited members of their parish to make a gold coin donation for the school. […]
Cecily McNeill8 August 2011 For Martha Gusmao the drive to learn English was sparked by specialising in computer studies and running a computer training school at the Uma Buka Matenek in Fohorem. Martha is the second of seven children of a local family, all of whom live in Fohorem except Martha’s elder brother who is […]
Cecily McNeill10 August 2011 Timor-Leste has transformed from a country whose towns were empty of people – the citizens traumatised by violence and bloodshed 12 years ago – to a vibrant young nation with numerous signs of hope, according to a New Zealand Army commander, in Dili for a six-month duty. August 30 is the […]
Cecily McNeill9 August 2011 There are signs of hope in the mountain villages of Fohorem and Datorua with many Timorese building new houses, sometimes from cement blocks they make themselves, sometimes newly thatched traditional houses with fenced vegetable gardens to stop animals trampling new plants. It has taken a long time for the people of […]
Cecily McNeill1 September 2011 People from around the archdiocese gathered in the cathedral on Friday August 26 to pray for the success of the Stewardship Institute on the weekend. Archbishop John Dew [inset] began the day of prayer with a reflection on the Woman at the Well [Jn 4]. Also speaking were Sr Anne Powell, […]
Nikki Phillips1 September 2011 Karanga ki te Karakia took place in the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit on the evening of Thursday August 11, the opening day of the Let Us Pray Symposium. Principal of St Joseph School Wairoa Richard Puanaki (right), perhaps best known as the composer of ‘Ka Waiata ki a Maria’, described […]
Tony Lenton1 September 2011 We have and have had, many spiritual treasures in NZ. I have my personal list of heroes including Paul Reeves who I respected for his humanity and compassion, James K Baxter whose erudition and mellow voice when reading scripture transported you back to the Holy Land, his friend [and mine] Eugene […]
Fr Brian Keogh of Southern Star Abbey, Kopua, speaks of the prayer/work/life balance Cecily McNeill2 September 2011 The first key in the Rule of St Benedict, founder of the Benedictines of which the Cistercian monks at Kopua are a branch, is ‘listen’, Abbot Brian Keogh told those gathered for the Let Us Pray symposium in […]
Cecily McNeill5 September 2011 More than 370 people converged on Palmerston North last month to pray, be inspired to pray and to listen and discuss all aspects of prayer and what follows from prayer at the Let Us Pray symposium. Bishop Peter Cullinane was delighted with the number of people who registered and with the […]