WelCom October 2016: Meri Hohepa No Aotearoa, he taonga of te hunga tapu I raangahia The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference have announced a day of celebration of Suzanne Aubert at Sunday Masses on 2 October – coinciding with the 90th anniversary of Aubert’s death in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1 October 1926. Parishes are invited […]
August 2016 Diocesan News Annette Scullion WelCom reported in April about an elderly man who died alone in his Wellington apartment, unknown and apparently unwanted. Now James is ‘home’. As part of a reflection on the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council had discussed this sad situation in March in relation […]
August 2016 Youth, Schools, Education Crispin Anderlini, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand The low thud of bombs striking other neighbourhoods on one side of a Skype call, and the rustling of wind in the trees on the other, was the catalyst for Naia Alkhouri, student at St Francis de Sales School, Island Bay, to write her prize-winning […]
August 2016 Te Tau Tapu o te Atawhai – He whakakākahu i te hunga kore kākahu ‘I was lacking clothes and you clothed me…’ Matthew 25:36 ‘He does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment. Ezekiel […]
August 2016 International News An international gathering of some 900 Catholic women religious leaders from around the world, met in Rome in May this year for their triennial assembly of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG). UISG represents nearly half a million Catholic women religious on five continents. At a meeting with Pope Francis, […]
July 2016 | Hōngongoi Diocesan News | Ngā Pitopito Kōrero a Rohe Pīhopa Henare Walmsley, Te Kahu o te Rangi Māori Pastoral Care Team of the Archdiocese of Wellington, introduces Te Wiki o te Reo Māori Language Week for WelCom. E te tī, e te tā kua tae nei I raro I te maru o […]
July 2016 | Hōngongoi Youth, Schools, Education | Hunga Taiohi, Ngā Kura, Mātauranga St Mary’s College Young Achievers On Friday 17 June five All Blacks visited St Mary’s College, Wellington, to run a skills session for our rugby players. St Mary’s was a winner of the OneMoreTeam Competition where three schools throughout the country were […]
July 2016 | Hōngongoi Diocesan News | Ngā Pitopito Kōrero a Rohe Pīhopa Fr Craig Butler, Parish Priest, The Catholic Parish of New Plymouth We are all called to conversion and it can come at any moment of our lives – especially if we are open to it. Recently, our New Plymouth Mayor Andrew Judd had […]
July 2016 | Hōngongoi Our Heritage | Ō Tātou Taonga Tuku Iho Mission Among Māori: The Lyon-Aotearoa Connection Pa Gerard Burns Recently I had the good fortune to be able to do a short pilgrimage to Lyon in central France to visit some sites important in the history of the Catholic mission in Aotearoa. What […]
June 2016 For the fourth consecutive year St Catherine’s College Wellington has won the highly-prized O’Shea Shield at the annual speech and drama competition for Catholic Colleges’ of the Wellington and Palmerston North Dioceses. Fellow Kilbirnie school, St Patrick’s College Wellington, were runners up. The competition was hosted by Sacred Heart Girls’ College in New […]