Author: wmc

I have no doubt that grace was multiplied among us during our hosting of World Youth Day Pilgrims from several countries for ‘Days in the Diocese’.

The New Testament writings began around the year 50 CE (common era) when a travelling missionary, anxious about a group of converts that he had called to follow Christ, could not get back to see how they were faring. Instead he wrote them a letter. The missionary was Paul; the letter was 1 Thessalonians.

Another partnership was celebrated last month with the signing of the largest treaty settlement in New Zealand’s history, worth some $400 million including 176,000 hectares in crown forests and about $223 million in rentals that have accumulated on the land since 1989 and an annual income stream of $13 million.

The Monsignor Moore Education Trust has updated its trust deed for Charities Commission registration and changed it to incorporate the other two Wairarapa parishes besides St Patrick’s, Masterton, where it is based.

They will be the first point-of-contact for all pastoral concerns from parish priests, lay pastoral leaders, parish pastoral councils, pastoral area councils, and pastoral area teams.

The Nathaniel Centre has expressed concern that pre-birth testing could further marginalise the most vulnerable in our society’the unborn and the disabled.

What if the place you lived in was a place where you could find and build on your strengths, where you were supported to reach for your highest dream and where you learned from every conversation?