Archdiocesan News Nina Ness Challenge 2000 has set up a young mums group to support people who want to do the best for their children but are struggling with the major challenge of day-to-day parenting. Challenge 2000 has found that many of the young people with whom it works have not had the advantages of […]
Obituary With great sorrow Wel-Com records the sudden death of Mgr Tim Hannigan of St Patrick’s parish Napier. Mgr Tim collapsed and died during Communion and just after baptising a baby at Mass on Sunday 28 April. The Dominion Post quotes former St Patrick’s parish priest Fr Paul Kerridge as saying Mgr Tim ‘had not […]
Feature William Warren Fun, fellowship, and faith aptly describe the Jesus 4 Real adults retreat at Palm Grove, Paraparaumu in March. Having heard many rave reviews about the ‘J4R’ camps, but never able to attend a camp meant that I jumped at the chance to attend the weekend camp for adults. My curiosity about this […]
Palmerston North Mary Nash A group of people sentenced to life imprisonment are among the 200,000-strong Dominican family throughout the world. Lay promoter for the Dominicans Fr David Kammler showed a gathering of people in Palmerston North on 3 April a greetings card the lifers had given him in thanks for his presence and visits. […]
Obituary Eileen Brosnahan rsm Ninety-nine years of life, seventy-five of them as a Sister of Mercy, were celebrated in a thanksgiving liturgy in St Joseph’s Convent Chapel Upper Hutt on 22 April when Sisters of Mercy, many family members and friends gathered to rejoice in the life and death of Sister Mary Theodore Harrington. Born […]
Archdiocese News Former archdiocesan pastoral support person Sue Ryan has begun a two-year term teaching as a volunteer in Kiribati, an island nation in the central Pacific. Sue has more than 40 years experience as an science educator, beginning at St Mary’s College and Massey University before taking positions in the Palmerston North and Wellington […]
Book Review Cecily McNeill Stepping into Mystery: Four Approaches to a Spiritual Life by Monty Williams SJ This marvellous book explores mystery and wonder in the open myths that lead the reader to God as against closed myths that demand clarity. Using the Ignatian spiritual exercises, Canadian Jesuit Monty Williams taps into a range of […]
Palmerston North Fr Kevin Neal Two of the finest things in the New Zealand Church happen to be in the diocese of Palmerston North. They are very different but they are part of the soul of our Church and perhaps even the wider society of this country. To see these things, I recently set off […]
Features Barbara Henley RNDM Our RNDM Eco Journey this year saw us enjoying the wonderful world of nature right in the heart of Wellington. Although we had three ‘novice’ trampers with us this year they enthusiastically joined in the challenges of our annual Eco Retreat. The first adventure was a 6 hour climb up the […]
Column Cecily McNeill 5 April, 2013 Almost from his first words as Pope, Francis made it clear that he stood alongside the poor and marginalised. In his first homily on the feast day of St Joseph the Worker, Pope Francis spoke of his new ministry as one of service. ‘He must be inspired by the […]