The Day of Prayer for Family Life is celebrated on the Feast of the Annunciation, which usually takes place on 25 March, nine months before Christmas. When it falls during Holy Week, it is usually moved, as in 2024, with an observance on 8 April.
During the month of April 2024 Pope Francis’ intention is: for the role of women. We pray that the dignity and immense value of women be recognised in every culture, and for the end of discrimination that they experience in different parts of the world.
A new book titled On the Brink has been recently released by Wellington author, Roger Ellis.
On the Brink discusses creating conditions to foster the reconnecting of communities in an age of division says Roger Ellis.
Students at Bishop Viard College Porirua have posted a video on YouTube in which they discuss the benefits of the free school lunch programme – Ka Ora, Ka Ko. The Government proposes to review the programme ahead of Budget 2024 in May, and Associate Education Minister and ACT leader David Seymour has stated he wants to cut the programme by up to 50 per cent.
St Brigid’s School, Johnsonville, acknowledges and celebrates Deputy Principal Fiona Kearns on her remarkable 30-year tenure at our school – an impressive milestone!
Nick Wilson of Palmerston North is the new chair of the Council for Young People of the Catholic bishops of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Nick is the Diocesan Young Catholics Team Leader for the Diocese of Palmerston North. He has had a career in education in New Zealand and overseas. He works as the Manawatū Catholic Tertiary Chaplain and is on the Diocesan Leadership Team.
Three new youth ministers have been appointed as Tuākana (youth ministers) to Catholic colleges in Wellington for the archdiocese’s 2024 Youth Minister programme. They are Sabrina Brown and Alysse Saipani, at St Catherine’s College, Kilbirnie; and Sarah Beamish at Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt.
St Mary’s of the Angels Church was packed on 12 February for the celebration and Commissioning Mass for Catholic educators in the archdiocese’s lower North Island area. It followed the upper South Island Commissioning Mass at St Mary’s Church in Nelson on 9 February.
The Syro-Malabar Youth Movement (SMYM) hosted its much-anticipated conference, Unite 2024, at El Rancho, Waikanae Beach, 2–5 February.
To list events free, email welcom@wn.catholic.org.nz with event name, date, time, location and contact details. Sunday 31 March Easter Sunday – Resurrection of the Lord Monday 8 April Annunciation of the Lord, Solemnity Tuesday 9 April Te Kupenga – Catholic Leadership Institute is starting a new webinar series, ‘A Taste of Theology’, Tuesdays 5.30pm, via […]