Cecily McNeill4 May 2012 Around 60 priests, lay leaders and Catholic Centre staff attended a ministry formation day last month to look at the issues concerning the more rigorous building codes that have been adopted since the Christchurch quakes. People gathered at Our Lady of Grace parish, Heretaunga, to hear and discuss implications for the […]
Features Msgr John Broadbent4 May 2012 May 28 Pope St Gregory I, who died in 604, had seen young boys from England being sold in the markets of Rome. He was sorry for these young fair-haired and fair-skinned boys being sold as slaves and, when he heard they were not Christians, resolved to work for […]
Reflect Veronica M Lawson RSM4 May 2012 John 15:1-8Again and again, life’s experiences teach us that, as members of the Earth community, we cannot make it on our own. We need one another and we need the other living creatures that inhabit our planet. The gospel reading reminds us that as baptised Christians we are […]
News Fr Bernard O’Donnell3 May 2012 Some 30,000 New Zealand military personnel are buried on foreign soil, casualties of the First and Second World Wars as well as the Vietnam War, Malayan Emergency and the Korean War. To personally pay tribute to men and women, the Dolores Cross Project aims to place a simple, handmade, […]
Palmerston North 5 April 2012 Seven students from the Hastings suburb of Flaxmere have been given a prayerful and celebratory sendoff with a mothers and daughters (all but one are girls) evening on February 23 hosted by the two pastoral workers in the suburb, Sisters of Compassion Srs Shirley and Alisi. The evening was a […]
Palmerston North Fr Kevin Neal5 April 2012 At this time of the year the bishops and key educational staff at the diocesan centre are absent for a day or more at a time. Sometimes they’re just travelling across town but they can be gone for days at a time. They head off, often quite early, […]
Palmerston North David Loving-Molloy5 April 2012 Work has begun on the St Dominic’s Archives Project with the help of Sr Maureen O’Hanlon OP. We received expert advice on this from Br Gerard Hogg SM who is the Marists’ chief archivist. There are a number of documents and photos from the early 1940s to the present […]
Features Martin de Jong5 April 2012 As the Church prepares to commemorate Christ’s passion and resurrection, Caritas Jerusalem secretary-general Claudette Habesch says Christians in the Holy Land cannot visit such holy sites as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre built on Golgotha where Jesus is believed to have been crucified, 2000 years ago. Permits are […]
Parishes Judith McInerney5 April 2012 Some 30 members of the Nelson Faith and Light Community spent a warm February weekend at the Bridge Valley Adventure Centre, Wakefield, for the annual camp. The peaceful setting in the rolling hills reflected the weekend’s theme – ‘Messengers of Love’. During the weekend we remembered a special messenger of […]
Schools Tim Barton5 April 2012 St Patrick’s College Kilbirnie triumphed over their McEvedy Shield rivals Wellington College winning almost a quarter more points in the biggest margin in six years at Newtown Park on March 5. An outstanding effort in the jumps events helped Town to a convincing victory over defending titleholders Wellington College. Town […]