WelCom June/July 2022 Reefton’s ‘unofficial mayor’ and longstanding stalwart of Sacred Heart Parish, Tony Fortune, celebrated his 70th birthday recently with Sacred Heart School students. Tony, centre with his birthday card, was also joined by principal Tony Webb, back right, and teacher aide Tracy Parkinson, centre left. Words and photo: Rose O’Connor, teacher Sacred Heart […]
WelCom June/July 2022 Pā Colin Durning had many callings in his long life: husband, father, dentist, professor, priest, kaumatua and friend. As his daughter notes, it was his ‘service heart’ that led his choices through life. Pā Phil Cody sm reflects on the inspiring life of a dear friend. Pa Phil Cody sm William Colin […]
WelCom June/July 2022 The Ukraine war and other conflicts pushed the number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human-rights violations and persecution, over the staggering milestone of 100 million for the first time on record the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said last month. ‘One hundred million is a stark figure – sobering and alarming […]
WelCom June/July 2022 This year, the Catholic Bishops of Aotearoa New Zealand have marked Sunday, June 19 as the Day of Prayer for Refugees and Migrants. The bishops align the annual prayer day to the closest Sunday to June 20, – World Refugee Day. Countries in the northern hemisphere utilise a date in September for […]
WelCom June/July 2022 Sea Sunday: Day of Prayer for Seafarers, July 10, 2022 Michael Fitzsimons Peter, a Ship Welfare Officer at Nelson, recently spent many hours sitting quietly with a Filipino captain who had just lost his family to Omicron and was even more distraught because he could not go home to bury them and […]
WelCom June/July 2022 The following article is the second of two presentations by Br Kieran Fenn fms about why the Scriptures were written and the context in which they were written. The first article: ‘The ABC of the Gospels’ – being the implications of every Gospel written as post-Resurrection inspired documents – was published in […]
WelCom June/July 2022 Fr James Lyons Thinking it would help to build a sense of community in the parish, I asked parishioners to sit in a different seat next time they came to Sunday Mass. It was a major pastoral error and quickly became the talk of the parish! ‘What does he mean, shift to […]
WelCom June/July 2022 Pentecost Sunday – John 20: 19-23 19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked in the room where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst. He said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ 20 After saying […]
WelCom June/July 2022 “All Christian communities have an important role to play in ecological education.” – Pope Francis, Laudato si’, #214 Pope Francis described in his 2015 encyclical ‘Laudato si’ on caring for our common home’ how we need to move beyond urgent and partial responses to immediate environmental problems – and develop a distinctive […]
WelCom June/July 2022 During the month of June 2022 Pope Francis’ intention is: for families. We pray for Christian families around the world; may they embody and experience unconditional love and advance in holiness in their daily lives. During the month of July 2022 Pope Francis’ intention is: for the elderly. We pray for the […]