During the month of February 2025 Pope Francis’intention is: For vocations to the priesthood and religious life. Let us pray that the ecclesial community might welcome the desires and doubts of those young people who feel a call to serve Christ’s mission in the priesthood and religious life.
During the month of March 2025 Pope Francis’intention is: For families in crisis. Let us pray that broken families might discover the curefor their wounds through forgiveness, rediscovering eachother’s gifts, even in their differences.
Festival One, formerly known as the Parachute Christian Music Festival, is held annually in January at Karapiro, in the Waikato.
The Meri Hōhepa Suzanne Aubert Tertiary Scholarship has honoured three students with support for their studies in 2025.
Palmerston North Diocese Young Catholics from New Plymouth, Whanganui, Palmerston North and the Hawke’s Bay joined Archdiocesan youth and others from around the country at LifeTeen Summer Camp, at St Paul’s College, Hamilton, 14 to 18 January.
Every December, the Diocese of Palmerston North Youth Office runs a Young Catholic Leader programme at Highland Home Christian Camp, in the beautiful Pohangina Valley.
At the end of last year, 70 year-12 students and 17 young leaders gathered at Forest Lakes Camp, Ōtaki, to prepare for life as school and parish leaders for 2025.
You call us to live lives that matter, lives that change our world for the better. Give us eyes to see that needs of others, and hearts to reach out to fill those need,’ are lines from St Peter’s College school prayer.
St Bernard’s School, Brooklyn, Wellington, celebrated a wonderful day last December with Fr Doug Shepherd baptising nine students, including three siblings.