September 2016 Te Tau Tapu o te Atawahi – He hoatu inu ki te hunga hia-inu ‘…but no one who drinks the water that I shall give will ever be thirsty again: the water that I shall give will become a spring of water within, welling up for eternal life.’ John 4: 14 ‘As the […]
September 2016 Diocesan News New Zealand’s housing situation is devastating for vulnerable families and individuals. After last year’s fundraising event for organisations helping the homeless, the 14-Hour Sleep Out event for October’s World Homeless Day is on again this year. Participants will come together at 6pm, 7 October, in a central city location to hear […]
‘The horrifying attack on Fr Jacques Hamel and parishioners in a parish church near Rouen has a very personal connection. In 2009 when we went to France to commemorate Bishop Viard’s 200th anniversary, I celebrated Mass at the birthplace of St Marcellin Champagnat with Archbishop Dominique Lebrun, in whose diocese the attack took place. It […]
August 2016 World Youth Day Annette Scullion Hundreds of thousands of young pilgrims from 187 countries from around the globe journeyed to Kraków, Poland, for the 28th World Youth Day (WYD) to celebrate being young and Catholic and to experience the universal church. WYD 2016 was not just a day but a week-long youth festival […]
August 2016 News Simone Olsen, NZ Catholic Bishops A new Rite of Blessing for expectant parents and their child in the womb has been created in both Māori and English. The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference are offering a new publication Ko Te Ritenga Whakapai I Ngā Mātua Me Tā Rāua Tamaiti Kei Roto Tonu I […]
August 2016 News From Missionaries of the Charity Sisters, Porirua The little community of four sisters of the Missionaries in Porirua are overjoyed at the news that their Foundress and Mother, Teresa of Calcutta, will be canonised in Rome on September 4 this year, by His Holiness, Pope Francis. It was the Holy Father’s desire […]
August 2016 News Annette Scullion Catholic Women’s League New Zealand ‘At Home Appeal’ charity is to support the Sophie Elliot Foundation for the year ahead, announced national president Kay Blackmore at the CWLNZ biennial conference in Christchurch, 20–23 July. CWLNZ established its ‘At Home Appeal’ in the late 1980s to support a national organisation each […]
August 2016 Diocesan News Annette Scullion WelCom reported in April about an elderly man who died alone in his Wellington apartment, unknown and apparently unwanted. Now James is ‘home’. As part of a reflection on the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council had discussed this sad situation in March in relation […]
August 2016 Diocesan News Monsignor Gerard Burns They say humans are the only animals that can make promises. I think that’s true: promises to keep a secret, marriage vows, religious vows, baptismal promises, legal contracts, and so on. The Marist family has just been celebrating 200 years since a small group in Lyon made a […]
August 2016 Diocesan News Annette Scullion Maureen Phillips, St Paul’s Catholic School Principal After five stimulating years as Religious Education Adviser for primary schools in the Wellington Archdiocese, Maureen Phillips is returning ‘home’ to Nelson as principal for St Paul’s Catholic School in Richmond. She says she has been greatly looking forward to taking up […]