Palmerston North 3 July 2012 Hundreds of parishioners from countries as diverse as Malta and the Philippines, India and Jordan came together at Pentecost to celebrate a multi-cultural Mass at St Peter Chanel, Hastings. This is a fairly new event on the liturgical calendar in the Heretaunga Pastoral Area and a first for the host […]
Palmerston North Mary-Grace Williams3 July 2012 When Bishop Peter Cullinane asked my husband Jonny Boon and I if we would live in Te Ahi Kaa Diocesan Young Adult Community House and support a young adult community, we had mixed feelings. We were incredibly excited and humbled by the idea but we wondered if the time […]
Reflect Veronica M Lawson RSM3 July 2012Mark 5:21-43 In Mark’s gospel, we often find a story within a story. Some scholars refer to this technique as the making of a Markan sandwich, others as a framing device. In Mark 5:21-43, the frame consists of the two-part story of the desperately ill 12-year-old daughter of Jairus, […]
Barbara Caygill3 July 2012 Stoke parish turned on a party for its former parish priest Fr Pat McCullough on his golden jubilee of priestly vocation and his 75th birthday, June 16. Fr Pat, who served St Francis of Assisi parish for about 12 years, enjoyed the celebrations – attended by around 200 well-wishers – which […]
3 July 2012 Wellington South Rotary has awarded St Joseph’s Mount Victoria parish musician Simi (Jim) Andrews a Pride of Workmanship Award. Simi has been part of the music group at St Joseph’s for the last 30 years or so, often fitting liturgy preparation around his extensive family commitments. It is this dedication that inspired […]
News Patrick Horan3 July 2012 The Knights of the Southern Cross writing competition this year challenges students to examine the contribution the second Vatican Council has made to the life of the Church in the 50 years since it opened in October 1962. When Pope John XXIII mooted the idea of a council, the cardinals […]
Features Cecily McNeill3 July 2012 This slim volume, a scant 98 pages, takes an historical view of the Church and attributes much of the changes the Church is presently undergoing, not to Vatican II, not to a dissatisfaction with a refusal to discuss pressing issues, but to a move in Western societies from Christendom to […]
Features Bishop Pat Power3 July 2012 Hardly a day passes without my being appalled by the plight of the Palestinian people and the apparent indifference of much of the Western world to the injustices suffered by these beleaguered people. I have to admit that before visits to the Holy Land in 1973 and 1988, my […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson rsm27 June 2012 In every life, there is need for a balanced rhythm of work and re-creation. With so much pain and suffering in our world, the demands of the mission can overwhelm us and cause us to act as though everything depends on us. While we can never really escape the […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson rsm27 June 2012 The gospel readings for the next five weeks are taken from John 6, a section of the gospel that focuses on food and related themes: on hungry people; on the need for food/bread; on food/bread as metaphors for life. Bread has been the staple food for millennia in bible […]