December 2015 Reflection Part three in a series for Fr James Lyon’s writings about grief. Grief is not a fleeting emotion or one that can be easily dismissed, but clings like glad-wrap and, just like that product, keeps fresh the pain inside. Only when grief is opened up and aired does it become assimilated into […]
December 2015 Feature Annette Scullion The National Council of Women of New Zealand is encouraging people to stamp out sexism and gender inequality in the release of its white paper 12 November 2015. The paper – Enabling women’s potential – the economic, social and ethical imperative – aims to build understanding of gender inequality and […]
December 2015 Reflection Fr Tom Rouse, Columban Mission, Lower Hutt ‘Lines of approach and action’ is an intriguing title for chapter five of Laudato Si’ because the key word throughout this chapter is ‘dialogue’. So what is Pope Francis saying? That when it comes to issues of the environmental crisis and climate change we do […]
December 2015 Profile ‘Mo Te Katoha Nga Mahi’ ‘All that is done is done for the good of all’ Porirua was created as a planned city after World War 2. With a rich heritage and a growing multitude of cultures and the city has life of its own, where many are proud to call home. […]
December 2015 News Jacob Bang, Challenge 2000 A group of young people from Challenge 2000 organised a peace liturgy at the Cathedral of Sacred Heart, Thorndon, to remember the victims of violence and tragedy in Paris and throughout the world. Almost 200 attended the vigil held Wednesday 18 November. Candles adorned the foot of the […]
December 2015 Advent and Christmas Advent, from Latin ‘adventus’ meaning ‘coming’, is the Church’s four-week liturgical period of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of Christmas – the feast of the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Around the world it is a time of family, prayer, remembering and giving. Leaders from various Church-related […]
December 2015 News The UN-accredited 2015 New Zealand Youth Delegation is a voice for the youth-climate movement at the climate-change conference in Paris, 20 November–11 December 2015. The conference is set for the world’s nations to negotiate and commit to a universally-binding agreement on climate-emission reduction. The young New Zealanders want to see a fair, […]
December 2015 Year of Mercy Fr Paul Martin SM Assistant Provincial On 8 December we begin the Jubilee Year of Mercy. This has been instituted by Pope Francis to begin on the 50th anniversary of the conclusion of Vatican II. In his letter Misericordiae Vultus (Face of Mercy) he outlines why we are having this […]
December 2015 Youth Dave Crampton Budding politician Stefan McClean has been selected as National list MP Brett Hudson’s 2016 Youth MP, representing the Ohariu electorate. Stefan, who attends Ss Peter and Paul parish in Johnsonville, is in his last year at Newlands College. He intends to study law, international relations and politics at Victoria University […]
December 2015 Opinion Joe Grayland Pope Francis calls for us to be open and to be an engaging Church. To engage is to commit – not stand on the peripheries – to get below the surface to explore the depth in a relationship so as to be able to experience, better understand and live it […]