Palmerston North April 2014 Mary-Grace Williams Palmerston North’s Catholic Young Adult community Te Ahi Kaa has started the year with several events already and the year has only just begun. Te Ahi Kaa or ‘The Hearth Place’ is in its third year and is run by Jonny Boon and Mary-Grace Williams. Others living in the […]
Feature April 2014 The inclusion of the taualuga in the celebration of the Eucharist, especially at the presentation of gifts, signifies the willingness of the participants to present what is considered sacred to God. The taualuga is the Samoan traditional dance performed at special celebrations. It is considered the apex of Samoan performances and the […]
Feature April 2014 With the focus on a Future Full of Hope, the Launch Out candidates and several mentors gathered for a workshop to help connect the pastoral projects required of the candidates, with Archbishop John’s expectations as outlined in the document ‘A Future Full of Hope’. This workshop was a chance to gain a […]
News April 2014 Michael Noonan One of my regular jobs as a child in a family that shared the care of the household was polishing the dining table. As stewards in the archdiocese, we, too, are charged with ‘care of the household’. My five-year-old arms could only just reach the centre of the huge table, […]
News April 2014 The 1000-year-old reformed Benedictine monastic tradition of the Camaldolese now has a presence in Aotearoa New Zealand led by an archdiocesan solitary religious Br Graham-Michoel Wills. Last April the four members of the ANZ chapter – two in Wellington, one in Napier and another in Whangarei – met in retreat at Ngakuru […]
News April 2014 Eugene Crosby St Benedict’s parish in Khandallah held a party on Sunday 23 February to welcome Fr Doug Shepherd and farewell Fr Bill Warwick. The picnic was a rare coming together of church and school with principal Dave Lamont and his family there as well as Fr Peter Fitzgibbon from Johnsonville parish. […]
News April 2014 David Zwartz As children’s author Dame Joy Cowley added her button to the 1.5 million collected for the New Zealand Children’s Holocaust Memorial project, she said she had chosen a paua button, ‘because it reminded me that, although so many children lost their lives, they have not lost their loveliness, their innocence, […]
Schools April 2014 Mary-Angela Tombs Teachers at St Teresa’s School Karori have been working to create a culturally responsive learning environment for families by contacting all families within the first fortnight of the year and already this increased communication is paying off. For us, building cultural responsiveness begins with being aware of our own cultural […]
Schools April 2014 Eugenie Chylek-Peters Gabby Devine was at Sacred Heart Girls College New Plymouth for only two days in 2013 before she was diagnosed with cancer and sent to Starship Hospital in Auckland for treatment. Gabby did not come back to school for the rest of the year, but we saw her once at […]
Palmerston North April 2014 Shirley Knuckey and Gwen Mardle The World Day of Prayer was celebrated in New Plymouth and Hastings on 7 March. WDOP is an international movement of Christian people in many different traditions that have a continuing relationship of prayer and service. People from various denominations gather in one another’s churches to […]