Palmerston North November Pat Sanko The Havelock North branch of the St Vincent de Paul Society celebrated its 50 years at the area Festival Mass on Sunday 8 September, a highlight being a birthday cake which a parishioner had iced with the society’s blue and white logo. After Mass and morning tea for the parish, […]
Palmerston North November 2013 Annette Moran St Joseph’s School Hastings is celebrating next February 125 years since three Sisters of St Joseph of Nazareth arrived from Whanganui, to open the convent and school. Initially named Sacred Heart, the school was blessed and offically opened on 17 September 1888 by Bishop Grimes SM of Christchurch, assisted […]
Obituary November 2013 Jim Davis Friends of Nancy May ‘Twinkle’ Black gathered in St Peter Chanel Church Motueka on 4 September to farewell this colleague, mentor, teacher, friend and confidante and much more to so many. Twinkle was born in Nelson on 15 March 1932 to Lily Annie Black known as Nancy and George Charles […]
News November 2013 Adult education has had a vital injection of knowledge and expertise with the creation of two new roles to lead the National Centre for Religious Studies. Professor Anne Tuohy of The Catholic Institute of Aotearoa New Zealand has announced the dual appointments of Chris Duthie-Jung and Anne Kennedy to the positions of […]
News November 2013 Engaged Encounter is starting again after a year’s break in its 25 years of operating in New Zealand. Two couples and a priest went to Sydney last month to train in the new outline for a weekend and the organisation will again offer weekends in the archdiocese during 2014. Engaged Encounter is […]
News November 2013 The documentary film How Far is Heaven about the Sisters of Compassion and the tiny community of Hiruharama on the Whanganui River is soon to be available on DVD. How Far is Heaven premiered at the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2012. It then screened for more than six months in […]
Opinion November 2013 Fr Kevin Neal Prayer and singing are two topics I ponder often. A friend of mine, a De La Salle brother, as I was before ordination, clothed me in priestly vestments. He had been a good friend since I was in my early 20s and was a big person in every way […]
Schools November 2013 Cecily McNeill ‘The story of Polish refugees escaping from the Soviet occupation during World War II became a winning topic for one St Patrick’s College Kilbirnie student last month in a double first for the college. Aleksander Noble-Campbell won the Wellington Speaking Union’s Stockley Cup on 21 October with his grandmother’s story […]
Schools November Helen O’Sullivan rndm Napier’s Sacred Heart College students presented the results of mission fundraising at a Special Character ceremony on 25 September. Two months earlier, on 7 August, the college’s Special Character leaders had challenged students to find creative ways to raise funds to support the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions’ […]
Reflection November 2013 Sandie Cornish Catholic Social Teaching reminds us that we are ‘social by nature’. In this passage (38) from his encyclical on The Light of Faith (Lumen Fidei) Pope Francis explores the meaning of this phrase: ‘Persons always live in relationship. We come from others, we belong to others, and our lives are […]