Palmerston North Catherine Cameron 4 March, 2013 On 5 December last year, St Vincent de Paul Havelock North Conference hosted an anointing Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes church. The twice-yearly event is always well attended and appreciated by the sick and elderly residents of Hastings and Havelock North area. They all enjoyed the Christmas-themed […]
Scripture Kieran Fenn fms March 5, 2013 The belief in Mary’s perpetual virginity comes from tradition rather than scripture or a definitive council. Only the virginal conception of Jesus is directly mentioned in the New Testament, where the emphasis is placed not so much on Mary or on virginity as such, but on Jesus and […]
News Jim Dooley sm March 5, 2013 After nearly two decades in Wellington, spiritual director Lyndall Brown rsj is moving to Auckland as part the leadership team of her congregation, The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Lyndall had come to Wellington from Nelson in 1997 to join a ministry team at Futuna […]
World news Forrest Chambers West Papuan leader-in-exile Benny Wenda was barred from speaking in Parliament last month and instead had to tell his story across the road in Rutherford House. Foreign Affairs minister Murray McCully and prime minister John Key shunned Mr Wenda despite the fact that he has been welcomed in the British and […]
Features Msgr John Broadbent 4 March 2013 Wellington’s first parish priest, Father Jeremiah Purcell O’Reily, OMCap, arrived in 1843 to find a thriving Catholic population hearing Mass in an old store, in the homes of parishioners or even on the beach. Dr John Fitzgerald, arguably Wellington’s first lay pastoral leader, had been leading the congregation, […]
Schools Elspeth and Mike Cotsilinis 4 March 2013 Fifteen students and staff from St Mary’s College Thorndon spent four weeks of their Christmas holidays in Vietnam participating in a World Challenge expedition. The most challenging part of the trip was the time spent working on a project. This work gave a vivid example of the […]
News 4 March 2013 Challenge 2000 has unveiled a cross specially carved and adorned with the names of significant people associated with the organisation over its 25 years. Social worker Kitty McKinley started Challenge 2000 in the Johnsonville presbytery to support young people in their quest for dignity and justice. Over the years Challenge has […]
Book Review Fr David Gledhill sm 4 March 2013 Te Kooti addressed the churches: ‘Kauaka e kai hakari I to koutou whakapono. Tukuna to koutou whakapono kia haere, kia ngawari. Tukuna, kia haere mo te pani, mo te pouwaru, mo te rawa kore.’ We share one baptism into the Body of Christ. When we are […]
Youth Teresa Rayner 4 March 2013 Hearing Paul Young, whose novel The Shack became a New York Times bestseller, talk about how he came to write it was an inspiring highlight of the Parachute festival for me. I was one of 40 young people who went to the Christian music festival, 25 to 27 January […]
Youth John Watson4 Marh 2013 Bible Society’s new venture at this years’ Parachute Music Festival Bible Shop proved a hit with the new Kiwi Audio bible, Audible, also proving popular. This is the first time Bible Society has run a shop at Parachute (Hamilton, 25-27 January) and, with an audience of 17,500, staff were kept […]