WelCom August 2018: Bishop Charles Drennan A highlight of my year is the annual Vocations Retreat. It brings a good dollop of hope to the Diocese. The elderly often accompany the weekend with their fervent prayers. Simply to know that it is happening uplifts everyone, perhaps in the same kind of way we feel when another […]
WelCom August 2018: Mark Richards Sunday 1 July 2018 was a wonderful day of faith, celebration and joy in the Catholic Parish of Hastings – Te Pārihi Katorika ki Heretaunga. Tevita Fakaosi was ordained to the permanent diaconate at Mass in the Church of St Peter Chanel. Tevita was surrounded by all his family, the Pasifika […]
WelCom August 2018: The Church describes Sunday as the ‘foremost holy day of obligation’ (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n 2177). Other ‘holy days of obligation’ have always been added to the Sundays. In New Zealand, we now have only two of these additional holy days of obligation – Christmas Day and the feast of the […]
WelCom August 2018: John 6: 24-35 24 When the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into those boats and crossed to Capernaum to look for Jesus. 25 When they found him on the other side, they said to him, ‘Rabbi, when did you come here?’ 26 Jesus answered: In all […]
WelCom August 2018: Te Wiki Aroā mō Ngā Karanga Tūranga Hāhi a Motu ki Aotearoa, 5-12 Ākuhata 2018 To highlight National Vocations Awareness Week, 5–12 August 2018, WelCom presents reflections from a range of voices in our dioceses. The Good News Fr Bryan Buenger The truth is there are places in the world, Asia, parts of […]
WelCom August 2018: Mark Richards Vocation – what does it mean today? On Sunday 15 July, I heard it in the readings: ‘He sent them out in pairs’, to interface with people just as they were. They didn’t have any books or aids, material helps; in fact he sent them without a spare tunic, without food […]
WelCom August 2018: Fr Neil Vaney sm Loneliness in Our World Rightly famous is Thomas Merton’s insight on the corner of Louisville and Walnut in Kentucky “…I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realisation that I loved all these people, that they were mine and I theirs.” The Cistercian monk who had fled what he saw as […]
WelCom August 2018: Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand and the Wellington and Palmerston North Justice and Peace Commissions are holding interactive workshops on disability and participation in our community, through the lens of Catholic social teaching. The workshops will look at disability and participation in a local context, using the process of ‘See, Judge, and Act’. The […]
WelCom August 2018: Following media reports in July 2018 about historical abuse claims involving Dominican priest, the late Michael Shirres op, WelCom contacted the Provincial of the Dominican Province for New Zealand and Australia, Fr Anthony Walsh op. Fr Anthony has provided the following statement. The abuse committed by Michael Shirres will have had a devastating […]
WelCom August 2018: For the past four years, Pā Maria Marist Spirituality Centre in Hobson St, Wellington, has been hosting a Winter Film Series as a gathering that offers an Ignatian framework for prayer, reflection and discernment. Brian Cummings sm, Director at Pā Maria, explains. Prayer with Movies The Winter film series began in 2015 with […]