May 2016 It has been a long-standing Catholic tradition to honour Mary during the month of May. In many Catholic churches and homes, a ‘May Altar’ is set up with a statue or picture of Mary, flowers, and candles as a reminder of Mary’s importance in the life of the Church and our own lives. […]
May 2016 Martin de Jong and Lisa Beech Upper Hutt’s St Joseph’s parish will host a four-day Archdiocesan ‘Benefit Impact’ event from 10–13 May, to help people on a social-welfare benefit better understand their benefit details, with the support of trained advocates. People are invited to St Joseph’s Church in Upper Hutt, corner of Pine […]
May 2016 Catholic Schools Day 16 May 2016 Leadership in any context of the Church is challenging but the expectations we place on Catholic school principals is very high. Their role is twofold – they are both the principal according to State obligations and faith leader of their school community. As leaders they must marry […]
May 2016 Spirituality in Healthcare Sande Ramage In this Year of Mercy, many Christians may be re-energising their pastoral skills to respond to the call to visit the sick. But do the sick want to be visited by religious folk if they don’t any longer connect with a particular religious tradition; and what outcome ought […]
May 2016 International John Kleinsman Growth in the numbers of people affected by the Zika virus, spread predominantly by mosquitos, has been described as an ‘explosive pandemic’. While relatively harmless for most people, the virus is now strongly suspected – though not yet definitively proven – of being linked to a serious fetal malformation known […]
May 2016 Reflections Kieran Fenn In drawing this series about Mary to a conclusion there are a number of pointers to be made. An over-riding one is it makes no sense to use Mary as a cover for defective notions of God, Christ or the Spirit. The female imagery, which belongs to Mary as a […]
May 2016 Reflections Joe Green The Camino de Santiago, also known as the Way of St James, or Route of Santiago de Compostela, and the Road to Santiago, is the name of the pilgrimage routes or ‘ways’ to the shrine of the apostle St James the Great in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in […]
May 2016 Book review: An Inner Music Neil Vaney sm When well-known Marist priest, writer, respected scholar and theologian Fr Craig Larkin sm died last year after coming back from Rome he left texts of books he was working on. One on spirituality through the ages, called An Inner Music, has just come from the […]
May 2016 Book Launch: Living in the Planet Earth Catherine Gibbs, TCI Planet Earth is our only home but our attitudes are driving its destruction. Urgent ecological issues call for action at all levels of our society. Particularly valuable is community action, which includes faith communities – those who share the common bond of a […]
April 2016 Diocesan News The Sisters of Compassion have developed a number of exciting new resources to promote and celebrate the spirituality and good works of Suzanne Aubert. The resources will be launched at the Suzanne Aubert Spirituality Centre in 2 Rhine Street, Island Bay on Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 5.30pm. Sr Margaret […]