WelCom November 2021 Fr Bernard O’Donnell Isolation is not a new thing for the Central North Island. While the pandemic lockdowns have caused changes and interruptions to Church services and pastoral activities, some of the changes have brought out good in people who have responded in practical and kind ways. Due to the difficulty of […]
WelCom November 2021 The second postponement of the Cathedral Restoration Dinner made it 2-nil to Covid in the race to raise funds for Sacred Heart Cathedral! Both August 19 and October 11 coincided with national lockdowns and 170 paying guests had to be advised that their evening would not happen. A third date has been […]
WelCom November 2021 The dates of the next World Youth Day (WYD) in Lisbon, Portugal, have been announced. The world’s largest gathering of Catholic young people will take place from August 1–6, 2023. Making the announcement on October 3, Cardinal Manuel Clemente, the Patriarch of Lisbon, said: ‘We hope the 22 months that will lead […]
WelCom November 2021 Hannah Mclellan Five, Year 12 St Mary’s College students have launched a small business venture that promotes nutrition and sustainability. Known as ‘Sprout It’, the company has developed a kit – selling at $22 each – containing ingredients to grow a range of micro-edible seedlings. We developed our venture as an entry […]
WelCom November 2021 Acting as a ‘big sister’ to younger students and providing a shoulder to lean on in times of need has garnered recognition for a student at Sacred Heart College, Napier. Lydia Healey, Year 13, won the college’s ‘Upstander’ competition, which asked students to write the name of someone they thought was an […]
WelCom November 2021 Boys looking for their high school home for the next five years, had a taste of St John’s College at an open day in June. At the ‘taster day’, 115 Year 8 students from schools around the region experienced sports, ‘fancy food’ in culinary arts, and robotics and science. Head Boy Jonty […]
WelCom November 2021 Lyanie, a Year 8 student at St Claudine School, Wainuiomata, shares her thoughts for Catholic Schools Day, 29 September 2021: Tūrangawaewae: Catholic Schools – A Place to Stand. Going to a Catholic school means being a part of a big Catholic community. It is a privilege because of how we learn together […]
WelCom November 2021 The Church celebrates the Feast of Christ the King – also called Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe – on the last Sunday of the liturgical year. The Feast was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 with his encyclical Quas primas, to respond to a world that […]
WelCom November 2021 “What the statistics don’t show is the pain felt by so many parents who watch their children drift away.” Greg Erlandson Once upon a time, you may have prayed for your darling child to become a nun. Odds are you never prayed that she become a none. Gallup reported earlier this year […]
WelCom November 2021 The National Liturgy Office (NLO) supports the New Zealand Catholic bishops in their pastoral, liturgical, and teaching ministry, and ensures that the distinctive identity of the Catholic Church in Aotearoa-New Zealand, with its Māori dimension, is present and celebrated in the Liturgy and celebrated. NLO provides Liturgical resources as required by the […]