WelCom August 2021 During the month of August 2021 Pope Francis’ intention is for Evangelisation: The Church. Let us pray for the Church, that She may receive from the Holy Spirit the grace and strength to reform herself in the light of the Gospel.
WelCom August 2021 Due to the spread of Covid-19, no Catholic parish in Tokyo is open to the nearly 10,000 Olympic athletes competing in the city from 23 July to 8 August 2021, and the Paralympic Games between 24 August and 5 September 2021. Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi announced his decision in a message to […]
WelCom August 2021 Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on 14 July 2021, after spending 11 days in a Rome hospital, to recover from colon surgery. On his way home, the Pope stopped to pray at the Basilica of St Mary Major. Pope Francis was hospitalised for an operation to relieve severe stricture of the […]
WelCom August 2021 On 19 July 2021, PNG Bishops called for Australia to legislate for the freedom and resettlement in Australia of detainees on Manus Island and Nauru who are unable to return to their home country. The date, 19 July, marks the eighth anniversary since the Australian Parliament legislated the mandatory, indefinite offshore detention […]
WelCom August 2021 Sr Josephine Gorman dolc The 186th anniversary of the birth of Suzanne Aubert – Meri Hohepa, coincided with Pope Francis proclaiming 2021 the year of St Joseph, to mark the 150th anniversary of the dedication of St Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church. Because St Joseph was so important in the […]
WelCom August 2021 A Jubilee Mass of Thanksgiving was celebrated at St Patrick’s Church, Kilbirnie, 14 July, as a significant milestone in the lives of several clergy in the Archdiocese of Wellington. Celebrating presbyterial ordination anniversaries: 65 years – Fr John Rea sm (2020); 60 years – Msgr Charles Cooper, Frs Des Darby sm (2020), […]
WelCom August 2021 Pope Francis is calling for a church of missionary disciples. On Friday 18 and Saturday 19 June 2021, clergy, diocesan staff and 40 lay leaders from around the Palmerston North Diocese, gathered for this year’s Pastoral Day programme to explore what this call means. Pastoral Days have been run in the Diocese […]
WelCom August 2021 Carmel Cole rndm On Friday 4 June this year my parents, Clare and Gilbert Cole, celebrated 65 years married. Both in their 90s, they have been parishioners at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Palmerston North, for over 20 years. Clare and Gilbert Cole were married on 4 June 1956 in the Dunedin […]
WelCom August 2021 Roger Swanson In 1892 a large, 3-metre high, wooden cross made from Totara, was erected on a hill overlooking the newly-opened Wellington cemetery in Karori. On 31 March 1892, the following item appeared in the Evening Post newspaper: Yesterday afternoon His Grace Archbishop Redwood, accompanied by the Very Rev. Father M’Namara SM, […]
WelCom August 2021 Anne Phibbs csb June is the usual time for ordinations for the Missionaries of Faith, a Congregation founded in 1982, who ‘live by faith’. On 22 June this year, in Holy Family Church, Porirua East, Missionaries of Faith priests gathered for the 5pm Mass to celebrate the ordination anniversaries of seven priests. […]