Reflection 1 December 2013 Veronica Lawson RSM Matthew 24:37-44 ‘Where is the Life we have lost in living?’ asks the Chorus in T S Eliot’s The Rock. The Jesus of Matthew’s gospel is implicitly asking much the same question as Eliot’s Chorus. He is making much the same observation as Henry David Thoreau: ‘Most [people] […]
Feature December 2013 Anne Touhy Paul’s letter to the Galatians reminds his fledgling Christian community they now belong to the body of Christ. This means their old identities have been transformed and their old ways of being in the world have been changed forever. Through faith, the Galatians are called by the Spirit to be […]
Scripture December 2013 Kieran Fenn fms Pope Paul VI’s great Marialis Cultus, published 10 years after the Second Vatican Council, called for a devotion to Mary that was ecumenically sensitive, especially to the centrality of Christ. We need to recognise our own contribution to the Protestant reaction against Mary. The roots lie in the 16th […]
Church History December 2013 Msgr John Broadbent Francis Redwood was among the first boys to board at Fr Antoine Marie Garin’s new school which opened in Nelson in 1852, a decade after the large Redwood family had emigrated from England to a farm near Brightwater on the Waimea Plains. Bishop Viard and the Marists had […]
News December 2013 Bob Cater On 16 February 2014, the Catholic community of Titahi Bay will celebrate the Golden Jubilee of their parish, before it joins Our Lady of Fatima parish Tawa a year later. St Pius X separated from Holy Family Porirua in February 1964. Despite being able to enjoy just one jubilee year, […]
News December 2013 On Sunday 20 October St Teresa’s parish Featherston celebrated the feast of its patron St Teresa of Avila with a number of special touches recalling the young woman known as ‘the little flower’. A banner of St Teresa was placed on the lawn in front of the church and, as people arrived, […]
Schools December 2013 Dave Lamont On Friday 1 November St Benedict’s School Khandallah received a visit from the NZ Marist College Rugby Team, comprising students from Marist secondary schools around New Zealand. The team gathered in Wellington to play a Centurion Colts team at St Patrick’s College on Saturday which they won 36-15. As part […]
Schools December 2013 Marion Myers This month St Mary’s College Young Enterprise Team Sass and Spice will compete in the finals of the nataional competition having been named the Young Enterprise Wellington Company of the Year. The contest requires students to set up and run a business for three terms. Two St Mary’s College teams […]
News December 2013 On Sunday 3 November St Martin de Porres parish Avalon celebrated the feast day of St Martin de Porres with a scrumptious shared lunch. The sun shone, the BBQ sizzled and the tables were laden with food from the parish’s different cultural groups which each family had prepared. Parishioners past and present […]
Feature December 2013 A longing for people to be able to pray and sing praise to God in their own language has been one of the greatest discoveries from a consultation/conversation with parishioners at St Anne’s Newtown. Lay pastoral leader Karen Holland told a workshop on stewardship on Saturday 2 November that the removal of […]