WelCom May 2017: Wellington’s St Mary of the Angels Church was officially reopened on Wednesday 12 April in time for the greatest week of the Church’s year – the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus. For almost 100 years the church has been at the heart of Wellington as a favourite place to visit for […]
WelCom May 2017: Cardinal John Dew – To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Lutheran Bishop Mark Whitfield and I will preside at a combined Catholic-Lutheran service at Sacred Heart Cathedral at 3pm on Sunday 4 June. A warm invitation is extended to all to participate. Each year the Holy See and the World Council […]
WelCom May 2017: The New Zealand Housing Foundation released new research on Wednesday April 12, about housing in New Zealand. In response to the research Cardinal John Dew and Archbishop Philip Richardson are speaking out about this country’s housing crisis. They said in a joint statement, ‘We are at a tipping point. Families are paying to […]
WelCom May 2017: Danny Karatea-Goddard – A Language Exponent, a Storehouse of Genealogy, a Senior Priest 23 March 1938‒1 April 2017 The skies become misty, the northern tides break, a great tree of the Great Forest of Tāne has fallen. A descendent of Te Rarawa, a trout from the Hokianga. Pā Henare, rest in peace in […]
WelCom May 2017: The 2016 Kaikōura 7.8 earthquake that struck the upper east coast of the South Island early Monday 14 November and rocked the rest of New Zealand left Kaikōura’s 2000 permanent residents without water supplies and sewer systems and with no easy way out. Local resident and Chair of the Catholic Stewardship Group, Deb […]
WelCom May 2017: Roger Ellis – ‘A technological and economic development which does not leave in its wake a better world and an integrally higher quality of life cannot be considered progress. Frequently, in fact, people’s quality of life actually diminishes – by the deterioration of the environment, the low quality of food or the depletion […]
WelCom May 2017: Sophie Goulter – The Compassion Soup Kitchen in Wellington has organised a number of activities in May. On Thursday 11 May the Compassion Soup Kitchen is hosting a Sound Bites fundraising concert at St Joseph’s Church, 154–156 Brougham St, Mt Victoria. Doors open at 6.30pm with refreshments and the concert starts at 7pm. […]
WelCom May 2017: Crispin Anderlini – Rosa Lyo lives just outside Juba, South Sudan’s capital. Even here the drought and conflict are taking a heavy toll. Like many of the country’s 4.9 million people impacted, Rosa struggles to find food. She travels an hour and a half each way just to find bitter weeds to eat […]
WelCom May 2017: Sharron Cole – As the 100th anniversary of the World War I Battle of Messines in June this year approaches, there is mounting interest in both the battle and the role of Petone Parish Priest and Army Chaplain Fr James McMenamin who was killed in the early days of the Messines campaign in […]
WelCom May 2017: 1 May: Parish representatives selected and others who will be attending the Synod will be notified. 7 May: Diocesan-wide participation process for the Synod begins. 17‒18 May: Clergy Assembly, which will include section on the Synod. 20 May: Upper South Island Synod meeting with Cardinal John Dew (1.30pm‒4.30pm) at Parish Centre, Richmond, Nelson. […]