Convent Old Girls Netball Club the oldest club still in existence in the Hutt Valley recently celebrated its 75th Jubilee at the Angus Inn in Lower Hutt with more than 100 past and present players and friends.
What a day! More than 300 young people gathered on Saturday September 5 for the Big Day Out ‘Real Life! Real Power! Generation 1’ to discover and celebrate what it means to be young and radically Catholic in today’s world.
The experience opened his eyes to the everyday difficulties people in South America face and left him resentful of the excesses of the Western world.
In contrast to Judas’s very sensible suggestion, this woman’s gesture represents the excess factor, the non-sensible factor that gets into love when we are struck by just how wonderful God’s love for us really is.
I was dreading the task but not for very long because I’d checked only a few and an image came through and it came to mind easily when I was reminded of it again.
It is a light, attractive tale of the wonderful achievements of the two missionaries and of the delight of the Māori in heaven who welcomed Fr Melu through a special gate, dancing noisy hakas.
Parishes Irene Mackle9 October 2009 New Zealand’s oldest working Catholic church, St Mary’s, Otaki, is to be feted on Saturday October 10 with a series of parties to mark the 150 years since its opening, coinciding with the 200th birthday of Phillipe Viard sm, the first Catholic bishop of Wellington. There will be a powhiri […]
ATS ’09, a Samoan version of World Youth Day, attracted young Samoans from Australia, New Zealand and the United States for a week of singing, dancing, praying and festivities in September.
Ten Year 12 students gathered in July for a three-day retreat focusing on leadership and service based on the style and image of Jesus and St Marcellin Champagnat.
The catch cry was ‘we are all youth we are all the same and we are all different’, said Gemma O’Donnell who attended the Youth Diversity Forum at the end of August.