August 2014 Perspectives Annette Scullion Vocations is the central theme in Wel-Com August 2014 issue, with Vocations Awareness Week running from 3 to 10 August. We are each called to respond to God with discernment throughout our lives. This is eloquently referenced in Kieran Fenn’s article ‘The Annunciation: A Call to Vocation’: ‘God sought the […]
August 2014 News New Zealand Faith Community Nursing Association (NZFCNA) is a national Christian organisation that equips nurses to serve in their communities. NZFCNA is holding its 2014 conference, ‘Sustainability of Practice’, in Wellington, 11–13 September, at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul’s Loaves and Fishes Cafe. Registration after 1 August is $200. Contact the National […]
August 2014 Pastoral focus Michael Noonan ‘Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs, is people who have come alive.’ This encouraging statement came from Howard Thurman, an African-American philosopher and theologian influential in the formation of leaders of the American Civil […]
August 2014 Pastoral focus Veronica Lawson RSM Matthew 14:13-21 Rising fuel and food prices affect us all. Not everyone, however, considers the effect that lifestyle choices and agricultural practices in the developed world might have on the rest of the world’s population. In 2003, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation instigated a series of […]
August 2014 Reflection Bridget Taumoepeau Pope Francis is the master of repetition. I say this with admiration, not rancour. When he was first elected I would listen to every word and ensure I had saved all the texts of his homilies etc. I still try and listen to every word, but now Vatican Radio has […]
August 2014 Review Marie Williams St Brigid’s Church in Feilding is celebrating its 125th Jubilee over 2014/15 with a number of events. A concert by Fr Chris Skinner drew a packed audience to St Brigid’s on Saturday 10 May. Fr Chris, a Marist priest, is a renowned singer and songwriter who has produced several albums […]
August 2014 Opinion Martin de Jong In the weeks leading up to the Football World Cup – wait, this is not about the sport – I agonised whether to watch or not. I’m not in general terms a sports fan, but I played soccer when I was young and love international football competitions. But this […]
August 2014 Te Reo Areti Metuamate ‘It is as Maori that the Lord calls you, it is as Maori that you belong to the Church, the one body of Christ.’ These were the words of Pope St John Paul II on his visit to New Zealand in 1986. His words were powerful then and are […]
August 2014 Te Reo Fr Gerard Burns New Zealand society is changing in ways we don’t always notice when we are amidst them. I recently heard a Kiwi who had lived in England for 10 years saying she needed a dictionary now if she read a New Zealand newspaper. Why? Because there were so […]
August 2014 Te Reo Nikki Phillips Ki te pīrangi te Hāhi Katorika ki te hāpai i te reo rangatira mō āke āke, kei te Hāhi Katorika ngā kura me ngā kāreti me te kāreti mō ngā pirihi hoki ki te hāpai i te reo Māori. Ki tōku nei whakaaro, kei te Hāhi Katorika tōna […]