Palmerston North 1 February 2013 Three people from the Diocese of Palmerston North were awarded diplomas at the 2012 Catholic Institute graduation in Wellington. Cathy Wells, involved in the RCIA programme in St Joseph’s Parish New Plymouth, achieved a Diploma in Theology. Lorraine Gordon, a parishioner at St Philomena’s Parish in New Plymouth and the […]
Features Michele Lafferty1 February 2013 Where are the young people in the church? A gathering in Budapest last September of 12,500 of the world’s under 30-year-olds for the Focolare Movement’s Genfest may give some inspiration. Lia Van den Kerkhof, who is 21, says the Genfest was as if God was paying her back for anything […]
Features Helen Dew1 February 2013 Timebanking is rapidly developing as a way of exchanging services and building community, with a Wellington TimeBank sparking the formation last October of a timebank in the Wairarapa. Wellington South TimeBank, based in Newtown Community Centre began in October 2011. Within six months, however, it had spread throughout the city […]
News1 February 2013 In a fresh approach, the archdiocese has appointed three new people to Young Church Ministry. Dan Siave, who has managed the transition from the former Youth and Young Adults Ministry, is to lead the new lineup. Dan also spent 2012 shaping the parish intern programme to start this year. Emily Makower and […]
Parishes Anne Powell rc1 February 2013 A sense of the foundations of the Church being shaken filled the ‘Retreat in Daily Life’ team last month as they gathered at the Cenacle in Waikanae to prepare for this year’s ministry. We felt keenly aware of the many uncertainties that people face – earthquakes and the consequences […]
Schools 1 February 2013 Knights in armour and popes in triple tiaras, wicked barons and reforming monks, prayerful mystics and zealous crusaders, wealthy abbots and poor friars, powerful bishops and simple peasants, great theologians and holy fools, among others, all lived, loved, suffered, fought, prayed and served God in the Middle Ages. During this period […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson RSM8 January 2013 Today’s feast marks the end of the Christmas Season and the beginning of Ordinary Time. Over the Christmas season, the liturgy has invited us to reflect on and to experience the various comings of Christ in our world and to open ourselves to the action of God’s grace at […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson RSM8 January 2013 Today’s liturgy invites us to take a detour into the Fourth Gospel and into a marriage scene that the evangelist John places at the beginning of Jesus’ Galilean ministry. Marriage imagery appears from time to time in Israel’s prophetic tradition, sometimes in quite confronting ways, especially in Hosea where […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson RSM8 January 2013 The liturgy for today juxtaposes the introductory verses of Luke’s gospel and a passage from the beginning of Jesus Galilean ministry that encapsulates and sets the tone for the whole gospel. If we had no other part of Luke’s gospel than these twelve verses, we would know a great […]
Columns Msgr John BroadbentDecember 2012 November’s entry to our series on the popes touched on the brief history of one of the most infamous of our popes, Alexander VI, and his uncle, Calixtus III, who gave the Borgias a bad name in church history. But Alexander VI was the great-grandfather of this month’s saint, showing […]