Irene Mackle3 September 2012 Parishioners at St Mary’s, Otaki, celebrated the return of a renovated statue of Our Lady to its Te ana o Rouaiti grotto known as the Cave of Lourdes at the beginning of August.Archbishop Francis Redwood dedicated the statue and grotto on December 8, 1905 but the statue had become rather tatty […]
Joan McFetridge3 September 2012 The Catholic Foundation has started a major appeal for funds to support the leadership formation programme, Launch Out, so that the blessings of lay ministry in the form of lay pastoral leaders will have a firm foundation on which to flourish. This major undertaking will promote growth in the archdiocese, facilitate […]
Palmerston North Lakan BeechSeptember 2012 I have learnt so much after my first six months at Hato Paora College, not only from school but from the everyday opportunities that have been given to me. One of these was the opportunity to represent the Kura and express my words at the Manu Korero regionals. I represented […]
Schools Jacinta Purcell-Thompson3 September 2012 Biblical grandparents Ss Anne and Joachim provided the inspiration for the annual Grandparents Day on July 27 at St Patrick’s Napier. Deputy principal Jacinta Purcell-Thomas says ‘It’s a time for the school community to celebrate and thank God for the gift of grandparents.’ Junior and middle syndicate students took part […]
Palmerston North 3 September 2012 Bishop Charles Drennan has appointed Fr Brian Walsh vicar general for the Palmerston North Diocese. He succeeds Mgr David Bell who has been in the role for many years and who continues as Episcopal Vicar for Marriage. Ordained in Stratford in 1975, Fr Brian has served in several parishes in […]
Palmerston North Pat Rhodes3 September 2012 It was a great occasion on July 28 when Monsignor David Bell presented Leonie Newick with the Benemerenti Medal at the Vigil Mass in Gonville. This award is given to a person who is ‘well deserving’ of recognition for outstanding service to the Church and society. The medal was […]
Palmerston North 3 September 2012 The way that care for creation is integrated into the shared life of the Church, and into our everyday lives and how our worship, prayer and mission show God’s love for the whole of creation are the focus of an environmental conference in Wellington next month. Lament, Hope and Action […]
Schools Cecily McNeill3 September 2012 The quality above all which school leaders and teachers need in their work with young people is to see them as God sees them; so said Jesuit priest Michael Holman, key speaker at the Education Convention in Wellington last month. Fr Holman ranged over issues concerning young people today from […]
Columns Kieran Fenn FMS 2010 Early in the infancy narrative we meet Herod the Great (37 – 4 BC), a ruler engaged in expensive building projects, magnificent palaces in Jerusalem and other cities and fortresses around the country, the Herodium and Masada. His most famous project was the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. The extraordinary […]
Cecily McNeill December 2010 Well into Advent, the church’s time of waiting and hoping for the new life that Christmas brings, our thoughts turn to the families of the 29 miners killed in gas explosions last month. Christmas in many families is a time of joy though maybe sometimes tempered with the fractiousness that can […]