Features Sr Eileen Brosnahan rsm4 May 2012 Timothy Brosnahan took the news of his only son Bill’s death while a navigator in World War II hard. His sister, Eileen Brosnahan rsm, then 12 years old, says: ‘He and Bill were great cobbers and after Bill went missing Dad used to sit over the fire at […]
Cecily McNeillApril 2012 Three major industrial disputes in the country at the moment highlight changing working conditions brought about by increasing employer demands for casualisation as they struggle to remain competitive. At the heart of the Ports of Auckland dispute with the Maritime Workers’ Union is the issue of contracting out or off-shoring. More flexibility […]
Parishes Cecily McNeill4 April 2012 Sacred Heart Cathedral’s new music director has invited boys to sing in a new boys’ choir and within five days, he has achieved half the target number of boys. Initially the programme which includes a fully subsidised half-hour singing lesson once a week, theory lessons and choir practice is run […]
Schools 4 April 2012 Phoebe Van Der Velden of Cardinal McKeefry School, Wilton, dances with Australian musician and educator Andrew chinn during a workshop on March 7. Music and song rang out through the school during the day of workshops in song and movement. The day ended wtih an early evening concert for family and […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson rsm4 April 2012 At the foot of Mt Macedon (Victoria) where I spent the first 16 years of my life, stands the lovely Church of the Resurrection, built in the aftermath of the devastating 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires. The most striking feature of this church is Leonard French’s stained glass depiction of […]
Palmerston North 31 March 2012 Parishioners of three parishes in the Palmerston North Diocese have been awarded papal Benemerenti medals. On Saturday February 11 (the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes), Martin and Judith Wall and Lyn Braithwaite of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Palmerston North, were presented with Benemerenti Medals. The parish also celebrated […]
Palmerston North Nicola McCarthy31 March 2012 We are one of two groups of trainees in the Palmerston North diocese and this retreat was part of our three-year formation programme similar to that offered at Creighton Jesuit University in Omaha, Nebraska. Based on the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola the retreat was directed by […]
Palmerston North 31 March 2012 Pope Benedict XVI has accepted Bishop Peter Cullinane’s resignation as Bishop of Palmerston North. In the same February 22 announcement the Vatican Secretariat of State noted that Bishop Charles Drennan would succeed Bishop Peter as only the second Ordinary in the 32-year history of the diocese. Mass will be celebrated […]
Palmerston North Fr Valentine Gryk SVD31 March 2012 I have just given your New Zealand Mass stipends and intentions to two priests working in small communities and in difficult places. They receive few Mass intentions from their people. Anyhow, they are very grateful for this help. They assured me, and I assure you, that they […]
Palmerston North Moira Butler31 March 2012 The Kimi Ora Faith and Light community in North Taranaki celebrated the international movement’s 40th anniversary in January with a pilgrimage to Hiruharama. Hiruharama, or Jerusalem, on the Whanganui River, is the birthplace of the Sisters of Compassion founded by Suzanne Aubert whose cause for canonisation is being prayed […]