News1 February 2013 In a fresh approach, the archdiocese has appointed three new people to Young Church Ministry. Dan Siave, who has managed the transition from the former Youth and Young Adults Ministry, is to lead the new lineup. Dan also spent 2012 shaping the parish intern programme to start this year. Emily Makower and […]
Parishes Anne Powell rc1 February 2013 A sense of the foundations of the Church being shaken filled the ‘Retreat in Daily Life’ team last month as they gathered at the Cenacle in Waikanae to prepare for this year’s ministry. We felt keenly aware of the many uncertainties that people face – earthquakes and the consequences […]
Schools 1 February 2013 Knights in armour and popes in triple tiaras, wicked barons and reforming monks, prayerful mystics and zealous crusaders, wealthy abbots and poor friars, powerful bishops and simple peasants, great theologians and holy fools, among others, all lived, loved, suffered, fought, prayed and served God in the Middle Ages. During this period […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson RSM8 January 2013 Today’s feast marks the end of the Christmas Season and the beginning of Ordinary Time. Over the Christmas season, the liturgy has invited us to reflect on and to experience the various comings of Christ in our world and to open ourselves to the action of God’s grace at […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson RSM8 January 2013 Today’s liturgy invites us to take a detour into the Fourth Gospel and into a marriage scene that the evangelist John places at the beginning of Jesus’ Galilean ministry. Marriage imagery appears from time to time in Israel’s prophetic tradition, sometimes in quite confronting ways, especially in Hosea where […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson RSM8 January 2013 The liturgy for today juxtaposes the introductory verses of Luke’s gospel and a passage from the beginning of Jesus Galilean ministry that encapsulates and sets the tone for the whole gospel. If we had no other part of Luke’s gospel than these twelve verses, we would know a great […]
Columns Msgr John BroadbentDecember 2012 November’s entry to our series on the popes touched on the brief history of one of the most infamous of our popes, Alexander VI, and his uncle, Calixtus III, who gave the Borgias a bad name in church history. But Alexander VI was the great-grandfather of this month’s saint, showing […]
Columns Kieran Fenn fmsDecember 2012 More than statements of belief, the four Marian dogmas are four major affirmations about Mary. They can be, and must be, made relevant to people in their present circumstances if they are to have meaning today. Mother of GodThe title ‘Mother of God’ is not found in the New Testament. […]
Columns Archbishop John DewDecember 2012 Ki te ingoa o te Matua, o te Tamaiti,o te Wairua Tapu, Amene. Preserve me, God, I take refuge in you.I say to the Lord: ‘You are my God.My happiness lies in you alone’. (Psalm 16:1) I love these words from Psalm 16. Nothing and no one other than God […]
Columns Cecily McNeillDecember 2012 Advent … Adventus … coming … The beginning of the ecclesiastical or church year and a season of great hope as the Church awaits the birth of the saviour Our Lord Jesus Christ. The Second Vatican Council whose 50th anniversary we celebrate this year as a focus of the Year of […]