St Peters third in O’Shea
Last month’s O’Shea Shield won a third equal placing for St Peter’s out of 17 schools with a win for the debating team.
Author: wmc
Watch and wait to discover the secrets
Like many priests in Aotearoa’New Zealand I attended the national gathering in Blenheim in April. I haven’t got that much staying power nowadays so I could attend only parts of it but I made it to the speaker’s address each morning and his discussion group in the afternoon.
Caritas helps 60,000 cyclone survivors in Myanmar
World News
Tim O’Connor
6 June 2008
The international Caritas relief effort is now targeting more than 60,000 people through local partners with food, temporary shelter, health care and other aid items in four of the most seriously affected areas of Myanmar despite ongoing difficulties with access for international aid teams.
Waihopai, divination and resisting empire
After the Anzac Ploughshares activists had deflated the spydish cover at Waihopai early on the morning of April 30, they erected a small shrine to pray before being arrested. Beside a picture of Jesus at their shrine was a picture of Oscar Romero.
Something vital just clicked – WYD legacy online
The much-awaited re-launch of connect.org.nz was celebrated last month with the ceremonial first click by Wellington World Youth Day ambassador, Josie Leota, and Fr James Lyons, the parish priest of Sacred Heart Cathedral in Wellington.
We’ve built a cathedral – now let’s fill it!
But where to from here? What about when the pilgrims come home? New Zealand’s World Youth Day journey has been likened to building a cathedral; there are a number of similarities in time, effort and financial investment spent on this event.
Fundraising by didgeridoo
As well as bringing in some cash to help World Youth Day pilgrims to Sydney, it proved a great opportunity to bring parishioners from the parishes and schools in the area to party together. Some even came from Whanganui!