Obituary Eileen Brosnahan rsm Ninety-nine years of life, seventy-five of them as a Sister of Mercy, were celebrated in a thanksgiving liturgy in St Joseph’s Convent Chapel Upper Hutt on 22 April when Sisters of Mercy, many family members and friends gathered to rejoice in the life and death of Sister Mary Theodore Harrington. Born […]
Archdiocese News Former archdiocesan pastoral support person Sue Ryan has begun a two-year term teaching as a volunteer in Kiribati, an island nation in the central Pacific. Sue has more than 40 years experience as an science educator, beginning at St Mary’s College and Massey University before taking positions in the Palmerston North and Wellington […]
Book Review Cecily McNeill Stepping into Mystery: Four Approaches to a Spiritual Life by Monty Williams SJ This marvellous book explores mystery and wonder in the open myths that lead the reader to God as against closed myths that demand clarity. Using the Ignatian spiritual exercises, Canadian Jesuit Monty Williams taps into a range of […]
Palmerston North Fr Kevin Neal Two of the finest things in the New Zealand Church happen to be in the diocese of Palmerston North. They are very different but they are part of the soul of our Church and perhaps even the wider society of this country. To see these things, I recently set off […]
Features Barbara Henley RNDM Our RNDM Eco Journey this year saw us enjoying the wonderful world of nature right in the heart of Wellington. Although we had three ‘novice’ trampers with us this year they enthusiastically joined in the challenges of our annual Eco Retreat. The first adventure was a 6 hour climb up the […]
Column Cecily McNeill 5 April, 2013 Almost from his first words as Pope, Francis made it clear that he stood alongside the poor and marginalised. In his first homily on the feast day of St Joseph the Worker, Pope Francis spoke of his new ministry as one of service. ‘He must be inspired by the […]
Archdiocesan Pastoral Services has a new director. Michael Noonan brings to the pastoral team wide experience of Catholic life from Catholic Social Services to Relationship Services to chair of his parish council in Tainui, Dunedin. He is a founding member of the Dominican Family Community in Dunedin, a trained counsellor, retreat leader and spiritual director […]
Columns Archbishop John Dew 5 April 2013 On Sunday 17 March, just four days after he was elected, Pope Francis gave his first Angelus message. 150,000 people gathered on this St Patrick’s Day in St Peter’s Square to hear him. It was also the Fifth Sunday of Lent and he therefore spoke on God’s mercy. […]
Scripture Kieran Fenn fms 5 April, 2013 The feast of the Immaculate Conception made its first appearance towards the end of the seventh century, influenced by popular apocryphal accounts of Mary’s own miraculous birth. A little background A vision seen by the abbot of a monastery in Kent during a life-threatening storm led to the […]
Feature Sr Judith McGinley and Cecily McNeill 5 April, 2013 Dominican Fr David Kammler reiterated Pope Benedict’s call for lay people to be seen as truly co-responsible for ‘the being and acting’ of the Church when he spoke in Connolly Hall at the beginning of March. He said lay people should not just be collaborators […]