WelCom December 2021 The congregation of St Peter’s Church in Wairoa, north of Napier, celebrated a significant occasion on Sunday, 31 October, when they welcomed into the church Thea Olive Clarke – a fourth-generation member of the Clarke family. ‘It was a stupendous day, blessed with lovely weather, as four generations gathered for the baptism […]
WelCom December 2021 Rev Dr Joe Grayland After nine years at the Cathedral and before this in the Palmerston North Diocesan Office, Kate Bell has decided to move to begin a new adventure in Wellington. During the 1990s, Kate worked as the city’s tertiary chaplain. Kate has long and strong family connections to the Cathedral […]
WelCom December 2021 Jane Lee, Parish Secretary Betty and Gerry Durr of Our Lady of Hope Parish, Tawa and Titahi Bay, were presented with a Papal Blessing on 8 November 2021, after celebrating their 60th anniversary on 24 June this year. The celebration was rather belated due to overseas postal and freight delays with framing. […]
WelCom December 2021 Pā Colin Durning came to the priesthood as a late vocation after a life of remarkable achievements. Over the years he has not only been father to his eight children but also Fr Colin Durning, Professor Durning, as well as being recognised as a kaumātua by Māori. Last month whānau and friends […]
WelCom December 2021 Lisa Beech The Wellington EJP Commission, Challenge 2000 and Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand were among submitters supporting a government Bill to establish Matariki as a public holiday. The Māori Affairs Select Committee is considering Te Pire mō te Hararei Tūmatanui o te Kāhui o Matariki/Te Kāhui o Matariki Public Holiday Bill, which […]
WelCom December 2021 Lisa Beech ‘Racism is a virus that quickly mutates and, instead of disappearing, goes into hiding, and lurks in waiting.’ – Pope Francis: Fratelli Tutti, para 97, 2020 In his most recent encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, October 2020, Pope Francis has added to the Church’s history of Catholic social teaching opposing racism. Pope […]
WelCom December 2021 Fr Ron Bennett Followers of the Jewish, Christian, and Moslem religions have a lot common – the most obvious being Abraham, with whom our journey of faith begins. Abraham is revered in all three faiths as the man of faith to whom God promised countless descendants. Because of that closeness of our […]
WelCom December 2021 The street lights are being turned off in Punakaiki from November to January to allow fledgling Westland petrel chicks to safely leave their nest burrows. Some of the Westland chicks, embarking on an 11,000km trip across the Pacific, are dying as soon as they set off from their hillside burrows because of […]
WelCom December 2021 Challenge 2000 was founded by Kitty McKinley in Wellington’s Johnsonville Catholic parish in 1988 as a youth and community development agency as a response to the gospel call to love, serve and to bridge the gaps to support people from becoming their best selves. Challenge remains committed to working to change or […]
WelCom December 2021 He puawa au nō runga i te tikanga, He rau rengarenga nō roto i te raukura, Ko taku raukura rā, he manawanui ki te ao. Puna Te Aroha Wharehoka Te Kura Kōhine o Manawa Tapu ki Ngamotu has held the connection with Parihaka for the past seven years, with koro Rangikotuku Rukuwai […]