Parishes 31 March 2012 St Anne’s parish in Newtown has just rehung its Stations of the Cross which were blessed in a moving ceremony on February 19. The church has been reopened for nearly a year following renovations but the community held back from putting the Stations back on the walls because of a wish […]
Parishes 31 March 2012 St Joseph’ Levin and St Mary’s Otaki marked Waitangi weekend in a joint celebration of Sunday Mass on Pukekaraka Marae. The poignancy of the occasion, a first for the Horowhenua Pastoral Area, was highlighted in this historic setting. Mass was celebrated in Te Reo Māori beneath sacred Pukekaraka. The grotto of […]
Reflect Veronica M Lawson RSM31 March 2012 Mark 9:1-9The wilderness was the geographical and symbolic setting for last week’s gospel. This week, the setting is a mountain. Wilderness and mountain remind us that God’s Earth is the locus of mystery and grace, the place of human-divine encounter. The mountain, like the wilderness, links Mark’s story […]
Features Michael Fitzsimons31 March 2012 The legions of St Bede’s old boys spread around New Zealand will enjoy the very thorough and well-written history of St Bede’s produced for their centenary. The Faith of Our Fathers, The History of St Bede’s College 1911-2011, all 458 pages of it, is a handsome, hard-covered history written by […]
Emeritus Bishop Peter CullinaneMarch 2012 Ka pū te rūhā, ka hao te rangatahi. This is a Maori proverb which means that the old net is being pulled in and replaced by a new net. Old nets get a bit worn and harder to mend. New nets are supple and strong. But – and this is […]
Carmel Cole 15 February 2012 The Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions gathered in Napier at Christmas to celebrate 150 years and begin a year of jubilee. On Christmas Day 1861 in Lyon, France, Euphrasie Barbier brought the congregation (RNDM) to birth and, within three years, four Mission Sisters had arrived […]
15 February 2012 The Columban Mission’s outreach to the marginalised last Christmas included donating 800 Columban Calendars to prisoners around New Zealand through Catholic prison chaplains. While 2012 marks the 90th edition of the Columban Calendar, Mission Coordinator, Fr Michael Gormly, says the prison initiative is just one example of the many ways the Mission […]
15 February 2012 Efforts to bring healing and hope to a land where Christ continues to suffer will be centre stage this Lent with a visit to Palmerston North and Wellington dioceses of the secretary-general of Caritas Jerusalem, Claudette Habesch. Ms Habesch, who has headed up the Church’s aid and development agency in the Holy […]
The YCL leadership team 15 February 2012 They should have been on holiday, celebrating the end of exams. Instead, on December 10, 59 young people from around the archdiocese gathered in Paraparaumu to celebrate and explore the time, treasure and talents they have to offer as Young Catholic Leaders. The archdiocese has run YoungCatholicLeader (YCL) […]
22 February 2012 The grief and pain of ongoing earthquakes in Christchurch were marked yesterday in an Ash Wednesday ecumenical service in St Paul’s Cathedral, Wellington. During the liturgy, the large congregation stood in two minutes silence at 12.51pm, the moment, a year before, when the devastating quake hit. The quake, one of thousands to […]