Palmerston North Fr Kevin Neal31 March 2012 It’s more than six years now since I had my stroke. No, I’m not going to write about it, but I mention it because it’s part of another story. It’s about an event that occurred about two years before the actual stroke. I was feeling pretty terrible and […]
Palmerston North Jessica Sutton31 March 2012 St Peter’s College Year 11 student Te Kauru Nohotima of Ngati Porou has won a top New Zealand scholarship for his fluency in te reo Māori. And at just 16 he is passionate about keeping the language alive. After years of speaking nothing but Māori with his family, Te […]
NEWS Audrey Bakulit31 March 2012 Fr Edmund Little celebrated his silver jubilee and his 70th birthday last December.He concelebrated Mass with his long-time friend Lou Leuthard then joined parishioners from Takaka and many from his former parish, St Mary’s, Nelson, for a lunch accompanied by stories, laughs and a singsong. It was a beautiful Takaka […]
NEWS Eileen Brosnahan31 March 2012 St Joseph’s Convent Chapel Upper Hutt was filled to overflowing on February 7 when Sisters of Mercy, family and friends of Sr Barbara Wilson gathered for a thanksgiving liturgy for her life of dedication. Barbara was born in Wellington, the daughter of the late Monica and Marcus Wilson. After attending […]
NEWS 31 March 2012 More than 200 people packed into the Featherston parish hall on February 18 to welcome author Joy Cowley’s and parish priest Don Morrison’s joint publication, The Easter Story. Archdiocesan pastoral adviser Sue Devereux said parents had been asking for some time for a simple way to explain to their children the […]
NEWS Chris Connor31 March 2012 More than 14 years of loving and dedicated service from Fr Eddie Condra to St Mary’s parish Carterton were honoured at a Mass of gratitude and celebration at the end of January. Nearly 200 parishioners and local friends filled St Mary’s Church for the occasion. Three music groups played lively […]
NEWS Judy Houlihan31 March 2012 Cystic Fibrosis Wellington has an annual competition where different groups decorate a Christmas tree in the Michael Fowler Centre and people pay to vote on which tree they like best. On November 28 a group of Year 12 girls from St Mary’s College took up the opportunity offered to the […]
Parishes 31 March 2012 St Anne’s parish in Newtown has just rehung its Stations of the Cross which were blessed in a moving ceremony on February 19. The church has been reopened for nearly a year following renovations but the community held back from putting the Stations back on the walls because of a wish […]
Parishes 31 March 2012 St Joseph’ Levin and St Mary’s Otaki marked Waitangi weekend in a joint celebration of Sunday Mass on Pukekaraka Marae. The poignancy of the occasion, a first for the Horowhenua Pastoral Area, was highlighted in this historic setting. Mass was celebrated in Te Reo Māori beneath sacred Pukekaraka. The grotto of […]
Reflect Veronica M Lawson RSM31 March 2012 Mark 9:1-9The wilderness was the geographical and symbolic setting for last week’s gospel. This week, the setting is a mountain. Wilderness and mountain remind us that God’s Earth is the locus of mystery and grace, the place of human-divine encounter. The mountain, like the wilderness, links Mark’s story […]