WelCom October 2019: Piki Boyles Wellington’s St Francis of Assisi Ohariu Parish Youth ministry team, formed by Challenge 2000 staff, is involved in several parish and community activities that support children and young people of the Northern suburbs. Through their involvement our team of eight leaders has been learning how to apply their faith in their […]
WelCom October 2019: Peter and Mary Fama With a welcome $3000 contribution from the Palmerston North Diocesan Catholic Charities Board and a mighty fundraise of $12,000 from family and friends, this year’s ‘Thermals for Children’ project was off to a big start. And as a result, hundreds of children in the Hastings Parish and community area […]
Two clues were inadvertently omitted from WelCom’s October crossword, p 18, Seeds of Hope – the Caritas State of the Environment for Oceania Report 2019. Here are the two missing clues. Down 21. Today’s young people are saying, ‘The … is ours.’ (6) 23. In New Zealand 112 landfills are at risk from a 0.5 metre […]
WelCom October 2019: St Mary’s College student and a member of the Archdiocese’s Integral Ecology Committee of the EJP Commission, Xyryll Gayagoy, and her friends share their story about their 2019 Young Enterprise Scheme business, which is providing plant-based wraps as an alternative to using plastic wrap. We – the ‘It’s A Wrap!’ team – are […]
WelCom October 2019: On 14 December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly designated 1 October the International Day of Older Persons, which is observed internationally each year. Earlier this year, St Mary’s College Yr 12 students, Kathryn Arand and Jeanie Lyons, developed a project called ‘Goldies’ to offer support, compassion and service for the elderly. Along […]
WelCom October 2019: A presentation by international speaker Sr Laurie Brink op, a Dominican Sister of Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, Professor of New Testament Studies, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago and an associate editor of The Bible Today, will be on 15 October 2019, 7pm–8.30pm, at St Bernadette’s School Hall, 190 Naenae Road, Lower Hutt. This session proposes that […]
WelCom October 2019: St Benedict’s School in Khandallah is running their annual Spring fair, rain or shine, on Sunday 3 November, 11am–2pm. Organisers invite everyone to come along, have some fun and buy some treasures on this great day out. Events include the kid’s zone, the bouncy castle, box maze, lucky key, car racing challenge, plate […]
WelCom October 2019: Participants from around New Zealand come together every year to the Focolare Movement’s retreat to celebrate living the Gospel and experience the presence of Jesus amongst us. Every four years the movement’s Mariapolis (‘City of Mary’) Retreat is held for the Oceania Region. Next year, for the first time the Mariapolis event will […]
WelCom September 2019: Nick Wilson The youth ministers, college chaplains and tertiary chaplains of the Palmerston North and Wellington dioceses gathered in Pahiatua for a 24 hour retreat over 8 and 9 August. The theme was Christus Vivit – Christ is Alive!, which is the new Apostolic Exhortation from Pope Francis on young people in the […]
“‘The strengths of the Māori culture are often the very values which modern society is in danger of losing…” St John Paul II