WelCom June 2019: Deirdre Hanlon Thirty parishioners from St Brigid’s Feilding made a pilgrimage to Our Lady’s Home of Compassion in Island Bay in March to encounter and reflect on the life of Venerable Suzanne Aubert. The experience was enjoyed by all and left the pilgrims abuzz. A glorious Wellington day greeted the visitors after their […]
WelCom June 2019: Steve Morton There has been a growing call by the Church to shift our focus from church buildings to helping the disadvantaged in our community as more in keeping with our calling as Christians. To this end, last year Feilding’s St Brigid’s Parish fund-raising committee proposed we run a golf tournament with proceeds […]
WelCom June 2019: Students and staff at Sacred Heart College, Napier, celebrated Pink Shirt Day in spectacular fashion on Friday 17 May, to ‘Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu, Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora – Speak Up, Stand Together, Stop Bullying’. Pink Shirt Day is about working together to stop bullying by celebrating diversity, promoting positive social relationships and […]
WelCom May 2019: In the April 2019 edition of WelCom, Dr Christopher Longhurst wrote an article entitled ‘Theologies of Lament, Listening and Healing – Responses to Institutional Crisis of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse’. The following response is by a WelCom reader. Firstly, I would like to thank Dr Longhurst for his engaging discussion on how we, […]
WelCom May 2019: Church members, groups and individuals joined Pope Francis in Rome’s St Peter’s Square as he reiterated his closeness to the people of Sri Lanka following the terrorist attacks on Easter Sunday. Speaking after the special Easter ‘Urbi et Orbi’ message and blessing, the Holy Father expressed his ‘heartfelt closeness to the Christian community, […]
WelCom May 2019: Over 250 people were killed and around 500 others were injured in six coordinated attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, 21 April. Among the targets in Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa were two Catholic churches – St Anthony’s Shrine in the capital and St Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, north […]
WelCom May 2019: In his latest apostolic exhortation, released 2 April 2019, following last year’s Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment, Pope Francis has urged young people to embrace their role as the present and the future of the Catholic Church by building relationships with their community and with God. The […]
WelCom May 2019: Pope Francis has urged young people to embrace their role as the present and the future of the Catholic Church by building relationships with their community and with God. His latest apostolic exhortation was signed on 25 March and released 2 April 2019, following last year’s Synod of Bishops on Young People, the […]
WelCom May 2019: The month of May is a special time to honour our Blessed Mother Mary. Marian devotions may include singing Marian hymns, readings, homilies, and reciting the rosary. In his 1951 encyclical Ingruentium malorum Pope Pius XI wrote: The custom of the family recitation of the Holy Rosary is a most efficacious means. What […]
WelCom May 2019: ‘Jesus puts peace into our hearts so that in turn we can give it to others.’ Cardinal John Dew, Archbishop of Wellington In mid-April Pope Francis met at the Vatican with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Justin Welby [principal leader of the Church of England, symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and bishop […]