July 2016 | Hōngongoi Our Heritage | Ō Tātou Taonga Tuku Iho Mission Among Māori: The Lyon-Aotearoa Connection Pa Gerard Burns Recently I had the good fortune to be able to do a short pilgrimage to Lyon in central France to visit some sites important in the history of the Catholic mission in Aotearoa. What […]
July 2016 | Hōngongoi Reflections | He Whaiwhakaaro Fr Colin Karalus was a priest of the Archdiocese of Wellington for 60 years. Ordained on 23 July 1956, he died on 28 March this year. A Requiem Mass for Fr Colin was held on 30 March. Cardinal John Dew was celebrant and Cardinal Tom Williams and […]
July 2016 | Hōngongoi Reflections | He Whaiwhakaaro This Sunday’s Gospel reflection comes from Tom Gibson, a retired dairy farmer from Kaponga in South Taranaki. He now lives in Stratford and is a parishioner of the Immaculate Conception Parish. Lk 10:1-12.17-20 A Successful Mission For many years the Stratford parishioners have, during prayers for the […]
July 2016 | Hōngongoi Diocesan News and Views | He Pitopito Kōrero me ngā Tirohanga a Rohe Pīhopa A joint group of rural Catholics, Anglicans and Union parish people from the International Rural Churches Association, invited ‘anyone with a rural heart’ to the ninth Trans-Tasman Ecumenical Rural Ministry Consultation (TT2016) held in the Wairarapa 16‒19 […]
July 2016 | Hōngongoi Reflections | He Whaiwhakaaro Br Kieran Fenn fms presents the second of his three-part series on Mary in Culture as a contemporary form of Scriptural analysis. Mary and Mediterranean values With the Emperor Constantine’s adoption of Christianity as a legal Roman religion, Christians felt an urgent need to clarify their ideas […]
July 2016 | Hōngongoi Health and Safety | He Hauora In his series on safety advice for parishes, Stephen Harrison, Manager Assets and Risks, Archdiocese of Wellington, this month outlines parish responsibilities around tree hazards. Tree hazards Trees provide significant benefits to our churches and homes by way of foliage, shade, aesthetics and so on. […]
Events | He Pānui Friday 1 July Soup Kitchen annual Street Appeal with activities across the city between 7am–5pm. Friday 1 July Soup Kitchen Sound Bites fundraising concert, St Joseph’s Church, 154‒156 Brougham Street, Mt Victoria. Starts 6.30pm for concert at 7pm. Tickets $20 waged, $5 unwaged. Friday 8‒Sunday 10 July Vocations retreat […]
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June 2016 For the fourth consecutive year St Catherine’s College Wellington has won the highly-prized O’Shea Shield at the annual speech and drama competition for Catholic Colleges’ of the Wellington and Palmerston North Dioceses. Fellow Kilbirnie school, St Patrick’s College Wellington, were runners up. The competition was hosted by Sacred Heart Girls’ College in New […]
June 2016 Story and photos by Annette Scullion Bishop Viard College’s long awaited event centre and gymnasium was officially opened and blessed by Cardinal John Dew on 2 May. The Porirua Catholic college caters for around 350 students from a wealth of cultures and diversity. A powhiri welcomed local Catholic schools, local priests, the Board […]