Kate Mahony30 September 2011 How is our parish or school community faring in terms of stewardship? What can we do to make stewardship more ‘intentional’? These questions were just two of the many facing participants at the two-day Stewardship Institute in Wellington at the end of August, attended by more than 320 people from each […]
Cecily McNeillSeptember 2011 There has been a feast of gathering in the past month in the two dioceses with the ‘Let Us Pray’ symposium in Palmerston North August 11-13 and the Stewardship Institute at the end of the month preceded by the PrayLive day in the cathedral August 26. People flocked from all points of the […]
Joan McFetridge18 August 2011 There are enough gifts. This was Sr Elizabeth Julian’s challenge to Launch Out retreatants last month. She reminded us that the archbishop has called us to stewardship. He is taking it seriously and he urges us to do the same. This is the song being sung by the whole archdiocese. Sr […]
Cecily McNeill18 August 2011 The Catholic Enquiry Centre is marking 50 years since its inception this year with a number of celebrations around the country. Wellington supporters gathered in the foyer of Sacred Heart Cathedral on July 24 to celebrate the occasion and to see a display of paintings from a competition the centre has […]
Kate Mahony17 August 2011 A mother with newborn triplets is among the many mums that Wellington-based Pregnancy Assistance has helped in the past six months. The service was able to provide her with three new bassinets on short-term loan. Others assisted include a number of women needing suitably small-sized clothing for their babies born premature. […]
Olivia van Woerkom17 August 2011 A gathering to farewell three leaders of the Hutt Valley RCIA team was held at Ss Peter and Paul Parish on Saturday June 18. A lovely afternoon tea was shared by course leaders, local priests and parish council members and gifts of appreciation were given to long-serving leaders of the […]
17 August 2011 Fr Michael McCabe gave this homily at a jubilee Mass on July 19 for the five jubilarians pictured below. When I told our principal celebrant [Fr Frank Whitaker] recently that I was preparing the homily for this Mass of Jubilee he uttered a simple and heartfelt prayer, ‘Oh God!’ And when I […]
17 August 2011 Sr Mary Scanlon celebrated 60 years with the Little Company of Mary last month. As Fr Jeff Drane said in his tribute, this model of adaptability began life in 1929 and attended eight schools as the daughter of a school teacher and principal. After training as a nurse, Mary entered the Little […]
Cecily McNeill 15 August 2011 The tiny nation of Timor-Leste, 500 kilometres north of Australia, is preparing to elect a new government next June, 12 years after its people voted overwhelmingly for independence from brutally repressive Indonesian rule. The independence vote on August 30, 1999, set off another round of massacres, rape and torture as […]
Archbishop John Dew2011 The last weekend in August will be an important weekend in the life of the archdiocese. We host our first Stewardship Institute in the hope and the prayer that this will make a big impact on the way we live the gospel, on the way we make conscious choices every day to […]