News 31 May 2012 New Evangelisation is nothing new, Archbishop John Dew told the Joshua Catholic Men’s Fellowship’s May meeting.‘It is the same message but we are now being encouraged to find and explore different ways to present the gospel with meaning for the whole world. We need to find and promote relevance in peoples’ […]
News Gary Finlay31 May 2012 This year is the 40th anniversary of the introduction of the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) which will be celebrated with a gathering in Auckland next month. If you have not witnessed an adult receiving the sacraments of initiation at the Easter Vigil Mass recently it is perhaps […]
News 30 May 2012 The Refugee Family Reunification Trust has just welcomed another family from Somalia who have settled into a house, which the Sisters of Compassion have organised for them in Island Bay. They have spent the past 10 years in transit in Ethiopia, fleeing the ongoing civil war in their own country. The […]
News Monica O’Connell31 May 2012 The Wellington Catholic Social Justice group, which includes parishioners from St Joseph’s, Mt Victoria, St Mary of the Angels and St Bernard’s, Brooklyn are running a winter lecture series linked to the Caritas Social Justice theme for 2012 on ‘Food’. The series starts at St Joseph’s Bill Pearce room on […]
News Jemima Lomax-Sawyers31 May 2012 A Year 13 student at St Mary’s College, Jemima Lomax-Sawyers, has won a nationwide speech contest run by the United Nations Association of New Zealand (UNANZ) this year partnered with UN Youth. The topic for this year’s speech, of up to eight minutes in length, was ‘New Zealand and the […]
News 31 May 2012 Side by Side mentors will learn how to use toys to teach children about compassionate communication in the next training module in July. Mentors learn to connect the gifts of experience, wisdom, empathy and knowledge that are abundant in any Sunday Mass congregation or school meeting to families with young children […]
News 31 May 2012 Christine Dwyer and Sr Trish Hanaray greeting the parishioners of Ss Peter and Paul Parish Lower Hutt as they took off their shoes before entering St Bernard’s College gymnasium for Easter Sunday Mass on April 8. The gym, which parishioners had transformed with white peace lillies, was packed and the community […]
News 3 July 2012 Caritas received 24 entries from all over New Zealand in its SINGout4Justice music writing competition. For many students who entered this was their first ever experience in putting their words to music. Schools vary widely in the facilities they can offer young songwriters. But no matter whether they are working from […]
News Derek Johnson3 July 2012 You could have heard a pin drop in Te Papa when 300 young leaders from 30 schools throughout the archdiocese listened to Cure Kids ambassador Alexander McKay on June 14 at the Catholic Young Leaders Conference. This engaging young man was deputy head boy in his last year at Auckland’s […]
News Derek Johnson2 August 2012 On August 10, 2012, protesters will gather outside Wellington Hospital where Capital and Coast DHB is holding its board meeting, to protest against cuts in Newtown Union Health Service’s budget.NUHS, set up in 1987 to serve a diverse, low-income and often vulnerable population, was given three months’ notice of losing […]