Features Msgr John Broadbent 4 March 2013 Wellington’s first parish priest, Father Jeremiah Purcell O’Reily, OMCap, arrived in 1843 to find a thriving Catholic population hearing Mass in an old store, in the homes of parishioners or even on the beach. Dr John Fitzgerald, arguably Wellington’s first lay pastoral leader, had been leading the congregation, […]
Schools Elspeth and Mike Cotsilinis 4 March 2013 Fifteen students and staff from St Mary’s College Thorndon spent four weeks of their Christmas holidays in Vietnam participating in a World Challenge expedition. The most challenging part of the trip was the time spent working on a project. This work gave a vivid example of the […]
News 4 March 2013 Challenge 2000 has unveiled a cross specially carved and adorned with the names of significant people associated with the organisation over its 25 years. Social worker Kitty McKinley started Challenge 2000 in the Johnsonville presbytery to support young people in their quest for dignity and justice. Over the years Challenge has […]
Book Review Fr David Gledhill sm 4 March 2013 Te Kooti addressed the churches: ‘Kauaka e kai hakari I to koutou whakapono. Tukuna to koutou whakapono kia haere, kia ngawari. Tukuna, kia haere mo te pani, mo te pouwaru, mo te rawa kore.’ We share one baptism into the Body of Christ. When we are […]
Youth Teresa Rayner 4 March 2013 Hearing Paul Young, whose novel The Shack became a New York Times bestseller, talk about how he came to write it was an inspiring highlight of the Parachute festival for me. I was one of 40 young people who went to the Christian music festival, 25 to 27 January […]
Youth John Watson4 Marh 2013 Bible Society’s new venture at this years’ Parachute Music Festival Bible Shop proved a hit with the new Kiwi Audio bible, Audible, also proving popular. This is the first time Bible Society has run a shop at Parachute (Hamilton, 25-27 January) and, with an audience of 17,500, staff were kept […]
Retreat Anne Powell rc 4 March 2013 What began as a week-long ‘Road Retreat’, a bus journey through the North Island, quickly grew into a journey of the heart. Our group of 12 pilgrim-retreatants gathered at Paihia within the Gospel context of the Road to Emmaus (Luke 24) and across the water from the Pompallier […]
Palmerston North 4 March, 2013 Palmerston North Diocese’s four religious houses with trainees and five diocesan seminarians showed vitality in the Church, ‘for which we should give thanks to God and, in this Year of Faith, joyfully celebrate’, Bishop Charles Drennan said. Bishop Charles visited the Sisters of Compassion in Upper Hutt last month and […]
Schools 5 February 2013 The Catholic Foundation wishes to congratulate the winners of scholarships for this year’s tertiary studies and wish them all well in their chosen courses. The awards were presented at college prizegiving ceremonies at the end of 2012. Details of how to apply for a scholarship are on the Catholic Foundation’s website. […]
Columns Archbishop John DewFebruary 2013 ‘God of mission, you filled the mind and heart of Bishop Pompallier with Apostolic zeal to leave country and family, to bring the Gospel of Christ to Oceania and Aotearoa. Bless our country and our families as we celebrate the 175th anniversary of the first Mass offered on Aotearoa soil. […]