Columns Kieran Fenn fmsJuly 2012 In the New Testament we find the start of Christian reflection on Mary – just the beginnings, not the fullness of Marian teaching and practice which has developed over the centuries. The earliest reference to the mother of Jesus is found in Paul’s letter to the Galatians from the mid-50s: […]
Cecily McNeillJuly 2012 The early Christians with their communal living may have had the recipe for sustainable living just right, according to some of the speakers at last month’s Earth Summit in Brazil, dubbed Rio+20. If saving the world one recycled milk bottle at a time seems daunting for the individual, a coalition of organisations […]
Archbishop John DewJuly 2012 Throughout the world the question of ‘same-sex marriages’ is being debated. In our own country some Members of Parliament are working on a Definition of Marriage Bill that would allow same-sex couples to marry and have equal status with married couples. Other moves are to review the adoption laws and allow […]
Palmerston North 3 July 2012 Hundreds of parishioners from countries as diverse as Malta and the Philippines, India and Jordan came together at Pentecost to celebrate a multi-cultural Mass at St Peter Chanel, Hastings. This is a fairly new event on the liturgical calendar in the Heretaunga Pastoral Area and a first for the host […]
Palmerston North Mary-Grace Williams3 July 2012 When Bishop Peter Cullinane asked my husband Jonny Boon and I if we would live in Te Ahi Kaa Diocesan Young Adult Community House and support a young adult community, we had mixed feelings. We were incredibly excited and humbled by the idea but we wondered if the time […]
Reflect Veronica M Lawson RSM3 July 2012Mark 5:21-43 In Mark’s gospel, we often find a story within a story. Some scholars refer to this technique as the making of a Markan sandwich, others as a framing device. In Mark 5:21-43, the frame consists of the two-part story of the desperately ill 12-year-old daughter of Jairus, […]
Barbara Caygill3 July 2012 Stoke parish turned on a party for its former parish priest Fr Pat McCullough on his golden jubilee of priestly vocation and his 75th birthday, June 16. Fr Pat, who served St Francis of Assisi parish for about 12 years, enjoyed the celebrations – attended by around 200 well-wishers – which […]
3 July 2012 Wellington South Rotary has awarded St Joseph’s Mount Victoria parish musician Simi (Jim) Andrews a Pride of Workmanship Award. Simi has been part of the music group at St Joseph’s for the last 30 years or so, often fitting liturgy preparation around his extensive family commitments. It is this dedication that inspired […]
News Patrick Horan3 July 2012 The Knights of the Southern Cross writing competition this year challenges students to examine the contribution the second Vatican Council has made to the life of the Church in the 50 years since it opened in October 1962. When Pope John XXIII mooted the idea of a council, the cardinals […]
Features Cecily McNeill3 July 2012 This slim volume, a scant 98 pages, takes an historical view of the Church and attributes much of the changes the Church is presently undergoing, not to Vatican II, not to a dissatisfaction with a refusal to discuss pressing issues, but to a move in Western societies from Christendom to […]