WelCom April 2017: Youth, Schools, Education Students, staff and parents of Cardinal McKeefry School, Wilton-Northland, celebrated Shrove Tuesday with an array of delicious pancakes. The community came together to share a pancake breakfast to mark the end of Ordinary Time before Lent. Families were treated to American, Indian, French and Kiwi-style pancakes as parents cooked, using […]
WelCom April 2017: Reflections Kieran Fenn fms The Gospel reading, for the fifth Sunday of Lent, John 11:1-45, is about the raising of Lazarus. A Story Told Twice Have you ever noticed how closely this chapter on Lazarus foreshadows the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus himself? Only seven verses refer to Lazarus. The focus is […]
WelCom April 2017: (Anne Dickinson) Preparations are well under way for the Archdiocese Synod to take place over the weekend of 15‒17 September. In March Cardinal John Dew asked parishes to begin selecting their Synod participants, so people who will take part in the Synod weekend have time to prepare for their role. The Synod process […]
WelCom March 2017: Caritas_Lent
WelCom March 2017: News (Mary-Ann Greaney) – Cardinal John Dew commissioned Merrick Mitchell as a lay pastoral leader at a packed-out 9.30am Sunday Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Richmond on 29 January. Merrick was commissioned for the soon-to-be amalgamated parishes of Richmond, Motueka, and Takaka that will be known as Our Lady of […]
WelCom March 2017: John Robinson The purchase of a property in Johnsonville to be used as a base and outreach centre for Challenge 2000, has been announced by Fr David Kennerley sm, Provincial of the Society of Mary, and Steve O’Connor, Challenge 2000 Director. Fr Kennerley said, ‘As part of our ongoing support of Challenge 2000 […]
WelCom March 2017: Cardinal John Dew One of the most exciting initiatives I have been involved in during my time as Archbishop has been working with Sr Margaret Anne Mills and her leadership team to set up a community of Compassion Sisters in Westport. Over the last two years as I have visited the parish in […]
WelCom March 2017: Diocesan News A pōwhiri at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Wellington, on Monday 27 February, welcomed Deacon Danny Karatea-Goddard and his wife Maru Karatea-Goddard to the Archdiocese of Wellington for Danny to begin his new Tūranga Māori appointment. Hundreds of whānau, students, staff and friends from the Diocese of Palmerston […]
WelCom March 2017: Diocesan News Fr James Lyons Some years ago at a theology refresher course, the lecturer asked us this question: What does God do? How would you reply? God creates, God loves, God forgives…. Yes, God does all of these things, but there is one continuing action of God in which he does all […]
WelCom March 2017: Diocesan News Preparation work is well underway for the Archdiocese of Wellington’s Synod in September this year. The committee has been progressing decisions and actions and the first update has been sent to parish leaders. Cardinal John Dew said in the Decree of Convocation for the Synod: ‘In convoking a Synod I am […]