The Season of Advent – Ko te Wā o te Aweneti
WelCom November 2022
Author: wmc
Dates and events – what’s on in the two dioceses
Saturday 10 SeptemberCome and See Vocations Morning – meet other like-minded young men, talk to priests and seminarians, and ask questions about a vocation to priesthood, 9am–11.30am, St Teresa’s Church, Karori. Mass at 9am, followed by breakfast, fellowship and discussion. For catering purposes, contact l.hensel@wn.catholic.org.nz or text 021 164 580 to confirm you are coming. […]
Celebration Sunday Meri Hōhepa Suzanne Aubert
WelCom September 2022 ‘A woman of great faith’ will be the theme of the Celebration Sunday Meri Hōhepa Suzanne Aubert on Sunday, 2 October. The celebration will take place during the 11am Sunday Mass at The Chapel of Our Lady’s Home of Compassion, Rhine St, Island Bay. It will be a time to reflect on the […]
Vincentians celebrate St Vincent de Paul
WelCom September 2022 On Sunday 25 September, Vincentians from Wellington, Hutt-Wairapapa and Kapi Mana Areas will gather at Our Lady of Fatima Church in Tawa to join with parishioners in celebrating the feast day of St Vincent de Paul at the 10.30am Mass. We are pleased to have Cardinal John Dew lead us in this celebration.This […]
Child Safeguarding Week
WelCom September 2022 Child Safeguarding Week, 4–10 September, is held annually in Aotearoa New Zealand to raise awareness of child abuse prevention wherever children are – at home, the community, places they go. Organised by Safeguarding Children – Tiakina ngā tamariki, the objective is to raise the profile of issues connected with child abuse prevention and […]
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
WelCom September 2022 Te Wiki o te Reo Māori has been celebrated in Aotearoa since 1975. In 2022 Māori Language Week takes place 12 to 18 Mahuru, September. This week is an opportunity for the concentrated celebration and promotion of te reo Māori, helping to secure its future as a living, dynamic, and rich language. The […]
Support Life Sunday
WelCom September 2022 The theme for this year’s Support Life Sunday on 9 October, is ‘You are not alone: Accompanying and caring for people living with mental illness’. The National Liturgy Office is providing resources for prayer and liturgy, and the Nathaniel Centre is producing resources including a social media campaign for the week leading into […]
There’s nothing ‘up there’ about heaven!
WelCom September 2022 Fr James Lyons Every culture has a ‘creation story’ attributing power to what are called the ‘gods’, to explain the origin of things and our part in it all. Sixty years ago, human beings became space travellers. The first was Russian, Yuri Gagarin. He returned to Earth and scored some points for atheists, […]
Gospel Reading: Sunday September 4, 2022
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Luke 14:25-33 25 Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way and he turned and spoke to them. 26 ‘Anyone who comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, cannot be my disciple. 27 No one who does not carry […]
WelCom September 2022
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