WelCom November 2021 Lyanie, a Year 8 student at St Claudine School, Wainuiomata, shares her thoughts for Catholic Schools Day, 29 September 2021: Tūrangawaewae: Catholic Schools – A Place to Stand. Going to a Catholic school means being a part of a big Catholic community. It is a privilege because of how we learn together […]
WelCom November 2021 The Church celebrates the Feast of Christ the King – also called Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe – on the last Sunday of the liturgical year. The Feast was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 with his encyclical Quas primas, to respond to a world that […]
WelCom November 2021 “What the statistics don’t show is the pain felt by so many parents who watch their children drift away.” Greg Erlandson Once upon a time, you may have prayed for your darling child to become a nun. Odds are you never prayed that she become a none. Gallup reported earlier this year […]
WelCom November 2021 Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary TimeMark 12:38-44 [or 12:41-44] 38 In his teaching Jesus said to the crowds, ‘Beware of the scribes, who like to go around in long robes and accept greetings in the marketplaces, 39 front seats in the synagogues, and places of honour at banquets.40 They devour the houses of […]
WelCom November 2021 “The promise was that when the glass was full,it would overflow, benefiting the poor.What happens instead is that when the glassis full, it magically gets bigger, but nothingever comes out for the poor.” Pope Francis
WelCom October 2021 An image has been occurring to me of boats that have become unmoored. They end up on the rocks, or colliding with one another. There are features of our Western world’s culture that seem to fit the image. Important aspects of our lives seem to have become disconnected from what gives them […]
WelCom October 2021 Author: Kathleen P RushtonPublisher: SCM Press London, 2020Paperback: 256 pagesReviewed by: James B Lyons The Gospel of John has never been my go-to book regarding social justice. But it takes on new meaning as Kathleen Rushton exposes it in the light of present-day degradation of the earth and human poverty. Using the […]
WelCom October 2021 Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mark 10:17-27 17 As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt before him, and asked him, ‘Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ 18 Jesus answered him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but […]
WelCom October 2021 During the month of October 2021 Pope Francis’ intention is for: Evangelisation – Missionary disciples. We pray that every baptised person may be engaged in evangelisation, available to the mission, by being witnesses of a life that has the flavour of the Gospel.
NauMai September 2021 In 2015, Pope Francis has established 1 September as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, encouraging the Catholic community around the world to pray for our common home. The day is inspired by the Holy Father’s landmark encyclical Laudato si’, which calls on ‘every person living on this […]