WelCom August 2018: The Compassion Soup Kitchen in Wellington, which has been run by the Sisters of Compassion for over 100 years, was honoured as Supreme Winner at the 2018 Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards ceremony on 26 July. They also won the Health and Well-being category. Karen Holland, manager of the Compassion Soup Kitchen, said, […]
WelCom August 2018: Leading community engagement through social enterprise Annette Scullion Students at St John’s College continue to gain recognition for their business and social enterprise projects and initiatives. These include water-quality and weather-forecasting systems and community-based partnerships. Students and teachers are working with businesses and government organisations to take their developments to market and expand […]
WelCom August 2018: Annette Scullion More than 100 representatives of the Catholic Women’s League Aotearoa New Zealand ‒ Te Roopu Wahine Katorika o Aotearoa convened in Kilbirnie, Wellington, 25‒28 July, for their national biennial conference. Delegates represented New Zealand’s six dioceses, with 35 members from the Wellington Archdiocese and 12 from Palmerston North Diocese. There was […]
WelCom August 2018: A Memorial Mass was held at St Mary’s Church Foxton on Sunday 15 July for the 100th Anniversary of the death of Chaplain Patrick Dore who was wounded on Gallipoli and died as a result of his wounds in Auckland in 1918. He is buried in Foxton. Mass was followed by a short […]
WelCom August 2018: Nelson city, on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay was established in 1841. The Māori name for Nelson is Whakatū, which means ‘build’, ‘raise’, or ‘establish’. Nelson is the oldest city in the South Island. Today the city has a population of around 50,000 with a thriving arts and crafts community and a […]
WelCom August 2018: Nigel Matthews It was a great day in Upper Hutt City, as over 50 guests attended the opening of the new St John of God Clouston Park Community Home. Monsignor Gerard Burns blessed the facility and people from all around the local community, including prospective residents and their families, spent time wandering through […]
WelCom August 2018: Two parishioners of the Catholic Parish of Hastings, Mrs Jillian Frizzell and Mrs Margaret Kitt, were among the recipients of the Hastings District Council’s 2018 Civic Honours Awards presented at a Council ceremony in June. Jillian is assistant principal at Hastings Girls’ High School. In her 43 years with the school she has […]
WelCom August 2018: Fr Bernard O’Donnell At St Mary’s Taihape on 14 June, Marie Donovan was awarded the Benemerenti Medal for her service to the Catholic Church in Taihape. A group of local people gathered to celebrate this occasion for Marie. During the Church Service the Anointing of the Sick and Elderly was provided for those […]
WelCom August 2018: Mike Conroy A national Catholic men’s event to be held for the first time in Aotearoa-New Zealand, and hosted in Auckland this September, will offer men an opportunity to come together in faith, to listen, and to improve their lives in areas they care about – faith, family, marriage, work, mates and life […]
WelCom August 2018: Millie Lambess Pregnancy Assistance is one of the many free, professional support services the team at St Vincent de Paul Society in Wellington offers. Started in the early 2000s, it continues to provide an invaluable service to Wellington mothers and their babies. Based out of the newly refurbished Vinnies welfare office at 207 […]