Columns Kieran Fenn fmsDecember 2012 More than statements of belief, the four Marian dogmas are four major affirmations about Mary. They can be, and must be, made relevant to people in their present circumstances if they are to have meaning today. Mother of GodThe title ‘Mother of God’ is not found in the New Testament. […]
Columns Archbishop John DewDecember 2012 Ki te ingoa o te Matua, o te Tamaiti,o te Wairua Tapu, Amene. Preserve me, God, I take refuge in you.I say to the Lord: ‘You are my God.My happiness lies in you alone’. (Psalm 16:1) I love these words from Psalm 16. Nothing and no one other than God […]
Columns Cecily McNeillDecember 2012 Advent … Adventus … coming … The beginning of the ecclesiastical or church year and a season of great hope as the Church awaits the birth of the saviour Our Lord Jesus Christ. The Second Vatican Council whose 50th anniversary we celebrate this year as a focus of the Year of […]
Palmerston North Mary Bennett4 December 2012 With six baptisms at St Mary’s Palmerston North on September 30, the water was getting low when Fr Marcus Francis came to the last candidate, Liam McHugh, he picked up the bowl (left) and emptied it over Liam to gasps and laughter from the Sunday congregation. The Year 8 […]
Wellington Sharon Fernandes4 October 2012 Faith in the 21st century requires new methods of understanding and propagation in this fast-paced society. Theology on tap(TOT) is one way in which young people meet to hear teachings about Catholicism and Catholic doctrines in a relaxed environment with a couple of beers and open honest discussion. Founded by […]
News Catherine Hannon dolc1 December 2012 On Sunday, October 7, 2012, the opening Mass for the Synod on the New Evangelisation was celebrated at St Peter’s in Rome and the Doctorates on St Hildegard of Bingen and St John of Avila were promulgated. At about the same time, a large group of people from across […]
Schools 4 December 2012 On September 26 and 27, all 80 students at St Joseph’s School, Kaikoura, performed the musical In the Beginning… by Andrew Chinn and Catherine Blackwell for the School and parish community. The performance is about the seven days of creation where God gets a little more help than he expects from […]
Schools 4 December 2012 St Patrick’s College Wellington Year 12 student Georges Tinawi has beaten his peers throughout the world to the top mark in Grade 7 Trinity College piano exams this year! St Pat’s HOD Music Roger Powdrell said, ‘Obviously it is a great achievement to gain the top mark in the world!’ Here […]
Features Keith Banks4 December 2012 Sr Makareta Gilbert sm held the 83 people breakfasting on the Kapiti Coast entranced on October 13 with her talk on ‘Loving the Lord, living like Jesus and listening to the Holy Spirit’. The annual breakfast was for women in Waikanae and Paraparaumu parishes and their guests from Plimmerton and […]
Features 4 December 2012 Stokes Valley parish celebrated its golden jubilee on November 11 with Archbishop John Dew reminding those gathered for the celebration Mass that the parish opened when Pope John XXIII was pope and ‘was probably one of the first in the country to be established during the Second Vatican Council’. Pope John […]