Cecily McNeill2 May 2011 The power of touch to kindle a sense of the spiritual was palpable in the film Wit which a group of people gathered to watch at Pa Maria in Hobson St one Saturday morning last month. The exercise was to deepen our understanding of ourselves as spiritual beings coming to know […]
Tricia Kane2 May 2011 To seek God in all things is the goal of St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, shares with Christian life communities which meet regularly in Wellington. The World CLC originated in an earlier form in 1563 and was confirmed by the Vatican in 1990. We are guided […]
Suzanne O’Rourke6 April 2011 Liturgy committee members from parishes throughout the archdiocese gathered in the middle of March 2011 for the first of three Pastoral Area Liturgy Support (PALS) retreat weekends. This is the second time this course has been run and according to programme director Fr John Greally, the current intake includes a wealth […]
Social Justice hui Mary-Ann Greaney5 April 2011 The big danger of any gathering is that it will be a great experience for those who come and, when it is over, will quickly fade into oblivion. The ‘Working for the common good: Being salt and light’ hui is different because it was initiated by the priests […]
Sr Marcellin Wilson5 April 2011 A role play on homelessness in Wellington helped participants at a Social Justice Hui workshop at the end of February understand some of the issues that commonly prevent people from finding accommodation. Sr Marcellin and Wellington South lay pastoral leader Karen Holland who have been researching homelessness in Wellington women […]
Government review group presents its report Lisa Beech5 April 2011 The Welfare Working Group’s recommendations anticipate leaving a quarter of a million people in poverty, says Welfare Justice – Alternative Welfare Working Group chair Mike O’Brien. The government Welfare Working Group presented its recommendations on February 22 after some six months of deliberations. ‘There is […]
Stormbirds programme helps people in Australia and NZ deal with grief Esther Saldanha3 May 2011 Earthquakes! Tsunamis! Cyclones! Floods! Nuclear disasters! These seem to be a regular feature in the news these days. People in Christchurch, Japan and around the world are struggling to cope with the trauma that disasters like the Christchurch and Japanese […]
Sian Owen rsj and Cecily McNeill3 May 2011 The right to die with dignity – an increasingly common call from the pro-euthanasia lobby – was upended when a leading ethicist told a euthanasia conference last month being allowed to die naturally is dying with dignity. ‘They haven’t lost [human dignity] because they remain human.’ Professor […]
Regina Daly PBVM5 June 2011 Voices of the children from St Michael’s School, Taita filled the Church in Stokes Valley on May 14 when many gathered to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the first New Zealand-born Presentation Sister – Mary Tait. Sixty years ago in 1951 Archbishop McKeefry invited the Presentation Sisters from Ireland to […]
Trish McBride6 June 2011 People from seven world faith traditions gathered at the Home of Compassion in Island Bay for an unusual and inspiring retreat at the end of April. In this ‘inter-spirituality’ experience participants aimed to share with each other, at a deeper level than ‘inter-faith’, contemplative/meditative practices related to compassion − the common […]