The Chrism Mass in Wellington was held on Wednesday 27 March at St Teresa’s Pro Cathedral, Karori. Chrism Masses are celebrated throughout the world during Holy Week each year to bless the sacred oils used to administer sacraments for the coming year.
Two archdiocesan parishioners have been nominated as finalists in The Post 2023 Wellingtonian of the Year Awards.
The Catholic Parish of Buller and Inangahua have decided to sell their St Peter Chanel church, hall and land in Murchison.
A re-opening ceremony of the Suzanne Aubert Rongoā Garden at the Callaghan Innovation | Te Pokapū Auaha site in Gracefield, Lower Hutt, was held on 25 January this year.
Srs Margaret Anne Mills, Sue Cosgrove, Josephine Gorman, Veronica Hurrings dolc, along with other Compassion whānau members attended the official ceremony.
On 1 March, 1949, children and staff from Ss Peter and Paul Primary School travelled by train from Waterloo Station in Lower Hutt into Wellington and then on to Plimmerton Beach on Wellington’s West coast for a twice weather-cancelled school picnic. For the children it was an exciting adventure and the site of the picnic had been carefully chosen for its safety record.
The Ecology Justice and Peace Commission of the Archdiocese of Wellington gathered on Saturday 9 March at St Joseph’s Church, Mt Victoria, Wellington, for a Commissioning Mass celebrated by Archbishop Paul Martin sm. With six new members bringing the Commission membership to 19, the EJP is ready to respond to issues of justice and peace inspired and informed by Catholic Social Teaching.
Parishioners, ex-parishioners and friends of the former Sacred Heart Parish of Reefton are invited to our 150-year celebrations on the weekend of 17, 18, 19 May.
Members of the Archdiocese of Wellington Catholic Women’s League branches are preparing to celebrate a major milestone of 80 years of ‘Faith and Service in Action’ along with the recently incorporated branches from the Taranaki region.
Sr Patricia Hanaray was presented with the Benemerenti Medal by the Archbishop of Wellington Paul Martin sm at a ceremony held last month at Whitby Lakes Retirement Village.
Eleven young men from around the archdiocese and from as far as Hawke’s Bay attended a dedicated vocations weekend last month at Camp Elsdon in Porirua. Hosted by the archdiocese Church Mission vocations team as part of its ‘Come & See’ programme, it was their first whole weekend devoted to young men discerning a call to the priesthood.