News April 2014 Michael Noonan One of my regular jobs as a child in a family that shared the care of the household was polishing the dining table. As stewards in the archdiocese, we, too, are charged with ‘care of the household’. My five-year-old arms could only just reach the centre of the huge table, […]
News April 2014 The 1000-year-old reformed Benedictine monastic tradition of the Camaldolese now has a presence in Aotearoa New Zealand led by an archdiocesan solitary religious Br Graham-Michoel Wills. Last April the four members of the ANZ chapter – two in Wellington, one in Napier and another in Whangarei – met in retreat at Ngakuru […]
News April 2014 Eugene Crosby St Benedict’s parish in Khandallah held a party on Sunday 23 February to welcome Fr Doug Shepherd and farewell Fr Bill Warwick. The picnic was a rare coming together of church and school with principal Dave Lamont and his family there as well as Fr Peter Fitzgibbon from Johnsonville parish. […]
News April 2014 David Zwartz As children’s author Dame Joy Cowley added her button to the 1.5 million collected for the New Zealand Children’s Holocaust Memorial project, she said she had chosen a paua button, ‘because it reminded me that, although so many children lost their lives, they have not lost their loveliness, their innocence, […]
Schools April 2014 Mary-Angela Tombs Teachers at St Teresa’s School Karori have been working to create a culturally responsive learning environment for families by contacting all families within the first fortnight of the year and already this increased communication is paying off. For us, building cultural responsiveness begins with being aware of our own cultural […]
Schools April 2014 Eugenie Chylek-Peters Gabby Devine was at Sacred Heart Girls College New Plymouth for only two days in 2013 before she was diagnosed with cancer and sent to Starship Hospital in Auckland for treatment. Gabby did not come back to school for the rest of the year, but we saw her once at […]
Palmerston North April 2014 Shirley Knuckey and Gwen Mardle The World Day of Prayer was celebrated in New Plymouth and Hastings on 7 March. WDOP is an international movement of Christian people in many different traditions that have a continuing relationship of prayer and service. People from various denominations gather in one another’s churches to […]
Palmerston North April 2014 On Sunday 23 February St Patrick’s School Kaponga held its annual Mass to celebrate its Year 8 leaders. The school shows its appreciation for their skills and vision for the rest of their year and beyond. They lead the liturgy preparation including music and offertory. They recently helped the board of […]
Obituary April 2014 As a burgher of the oldest city in the Netherlands, Nijmegen, Fr Chris Penders was entitled to retire there, or with the Assumptionists in the Netherlands, but he chose to stay in New Zealand where he loved the beauty of the country and the people. Born in 1931, Fr Chris left his […]
Feature April 2014 Kieran Fenn fms With th release of what’s described as an epic film about the biblical story of Noah and the Ark, it’s timely to look at the question of biblical interpretation. Kieran Fenn fms warns against literal interpretation of such Genesis stories, advising readers to instead look at the context in […]