Reflect Veronica Lawson RSM29 November 2012 Luke 21:25-28,34-36 Today’s gospel passage, with its vivid description of the end-time signs, may seem a strange choice of reading for Advent and the beginning of the Church year. It is only strange if we take the descriptions literally. The image of Jesus coming on the clouds is from […]
Columns Fr Kevin NealNovember 2012 It was a pretty amazing seventh form and it was one of the last that I had responsibility for as a boarding master and as senior dean. It was just before I went to the seminary and began the bridging course towards priesthood. I had the senior boarders to care […]
Features Mary-Ann Greaney6 November 2012 Mary-Ann Greaney, Archdiocesan Pastoral Support Unit worker and Justice, Peace and Development coordinator, visited Peru after the Rio+20 earth summit in June. As a Presentation Associate, Mary-Ann has a long-standing connection with the Presentation Sisters who live in Peru and organises the sale of the handicrafts the Peruvian women make. […]
Features 7 November 2012 Archbishop John Dew tells synod of difficulties of rampant secularism The vibrancy of youth in the Pacific region inspired Archbishop John Dew’s address to the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelisation for the transmission of the Christian Faith in Rome on October 8. As president of the Federation of Catholic Bishops’ […]
Features 7 November 2012 Here’s a few of the front pages that have appeared on Wel-Com since its first issue back in September, 1984. For a backgrounder to the paper, and a selection of historic photos, click here. Issue 15, December 1986 Issue 146, October, 1998 Issue 163, May 2000 Issue 169, November, 2000 […]
Columns Archbishop John DewNovember 2012 It was the largest ever Synod and there is a great interest and real passion about the importance of announcing the Gospel anew, of proclaiming that Jesus Christ is the way to God, and that as human beings we can never be fully alive or achieve what it means to […]
Columns Cecily McNeillNovember 2012 It’s been 50 years since the Church was stirred, shaken in some quarters and subjected to a blast of refreshing air with the opening of the second Vatican Council. The Church marked the 50th anniversary of the opening of this momentous council on October 11. Where previously the Church had mostly […]
Columns Msgr John BroadbentNovember 2012 St Elizabeth, a daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania, was born in 1207. At the age of four, she was promised to the landgrave of Thuringia’s son, Louis, and was brought up in the castle of Wartburg with her future husband. What was a planned […]
Features Cecily McNeill7 November 2012 Wel-com’s masthead as it appeared on its first issue, September, 1984. Click here for a selection of past front covers. For 300 issues, Wel-Com readers in the Wellington Archdiocese and later in the Palmerston North Diocese have had the benefit of a free monthly diocesan newspaper. […]
Wellington Elizabeth Julian RSM7 November 2012 The elves from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings on the red carpet for the Wellington launch of the third in the series, Return of the King. Dr Elizabeth Julian rsm offered this analysis of the spirituality of place in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy […]