This is a translation of Archbishop John Dew’s address to the Samoan catechists published in the March issue. O le saunoaga toe teuteuina lenei a le afioga i le Akiepikopo John Dew i le Matagalua Samoa i le aso 12 o Fepuari 2011, e toe fa’amalamalamaina ai mo le taimi mulimuli, lana talanoaga sa faia […]
Parishes Jan Williams3 December 2011A weekend of celebrations marked 60 years of Our Lady of Grace parish and 50 years of St Brendan’s school in Heretaunga on the last weekend of October. Hundreds of parishioners and former parishioners and friends packed the Heretaunga church for three Masses of Thanksgiving. The church was decorated with the […]
Parishes 3 December 2011 Brooklyn parish’s new youth group, Eleven Up, is about to deliver timetables for Advent and Christmas around the parish, the culmination of a busy inaugural year. The group for young people in Year 7 and up started in May and meets monthly after the Saturday Vigil Mass. Meetings are a mixture […]
Parishes Olivia Wallis and Kodee Arbuthnott9 November 2011 Ss Peter and Paul school in Lower Hutt has celebrated the baptism of a group of year seven and eight intermediate girls. Frs Bruce England and Verghese Thuruthichira baptised Elodie Tafatu, Emmerson Cole, Caitlin Walker, Ashlee Curtis, Rongomai-Wahine Hamlin and Leiloa Tanuvasa-Kamo on Friday August 12 in […]
Parishes Kathy Orr-Nimmo17 August 2011 Saturday June 11, 2011 marked exactly 100 years after the opening and blessing of St Anthony’s Church, Brooklyn (now St Bernard’s). Over the weekend of June 11, the parish celebrated the centenary of its church building, and the golden jubilee of the parish. In early 1961 St Anthony’s became a […]
Parishes Lorraine O’Hagan and Margaret Orange5 May 2011‘I’d love to do that!’ A loved and admired member of St Mary’s Parish, Carterton, Lorraine O’Hagan, didn’t hesitate when her son John proposed a canoe trip down the Whanganui River for interested family. The fact that Lorraine has heart problems and is in her 70s was no […]
Parishes 5 May 2011 For the first time a girl has been accepted among the Samoan altar servers at St Anne’s, Newtown. On Sunday March 27 Faythe Moananu became the first girl to serve with other Samoan altar servers at the 9.30am parish Mass. Le’u Seumanutafa Ulu was also to join the altar servers but, […]
School 3 December 2011Year 13 students at Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt, celebrating their last week of school last month before studying for final exams. Traditionally the Year 13s dress expresses a different theme each day and here they are as their favourite characters: Tweedle Dee (Danielle Kellett) Tweedle Dum (Chloe Rodway) Beetlejuice (Brooke Nightingale) […]
Schools Margriet Lynch3 December 2011 Plimmerton’s Susannah Lynch is off to Malta in March to compete in the Secondary Schools Cross-Country World Championships. And at the College Sport Wellington annual awards evening on November 6, she was named Multisport Athlete of the Year. Suzannah’s excitement is tempered only by the fact that the 15-year old […]
Schools 9 November 2011 St Francis Xavier’s Tawa, paid tribute to the All Blacks in its school production this year basing it on the Rugby World Cup and welcoming visitors to Aotearoa New Zealand. The children singing the national anthem in Maori and English at the end was very moving, particularly as a ‘whistle’ blew […]