Palmerston North Graeme Munford11 November 2011 The Catholic/Anglican social service agency, ACROSS, has just become the lead provider for a new programme, Triple P, the positive parenting programme. ACROSS will run a pilot in the Manawatu region for this award-winning government initiative. This adds to ACROSS’s already highly successful Strengthening Families programme. Triple P has […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson rsm9 November 2011 In answer to my usual greeting, ‘G’day Muff, what are you up to?’ my lovely polymath brother-in-law, David (nicknamed Muff), would invariably reply, ‘Just contemplating the eternal verities!’ The conversation that followed, usually over a glass of wine, would confirm the accuracy of his response. Contemplating the eternal verities […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson rsm9 November 2011 Today’s parable of the ten lamp-bearers, the five ‘wise’ and the five ‘foolish’ young women, leaves us with endless questions. The setting is a wedding feast and yet there is no mention of a bride. The women are waiting for the bridegroom to return home. Where has he been? […]
Peter Wood9 November 2011 The first investiture held in New Zealand for a member of the Order of Malta was held in Wellington on Sunday October 9. Maurice Dodson was invested into the Order as a knight by the Chancellor of the Order’s Australian Association Brian Wilson, the first time an investiture has been held […]
Palmerston North Margaret Kitt9 November 2011 On Saturday October 15 Indian chef Jenson Cheraparam-ban and the St Vincent de Paul Society in Hastings put on a lunch for senior citizens in the Gathering Space of Sacred Heart Church. Jenson was born in Meloor in the Kerala province where his father was president of the local […]
Palmerston North Paul Green9 November 2011 New Zealand tops the list of OECD countries in terms of income inequality, according to Caritas research. Research and Advocacy coordinator Lisa Beech showed a political forum in Palmerston North which the local Justice, Peace and Development Commission organised for Social Justice Week in September how far the country […]
Archbishop John DewNovember 2011 In October [2011], I invited you to a book launch. The New bi-lingual Missal for New Zealand will be launched and used for the first time in parishes on the first Sunday of Advent, November 27. Over the past two years, parishes and chaplaincies have been using the interactive DVD, Become […]
Archbishop John Dew2011 With the words of St Teresa of Avila, ‘Since the greatness of God is without limits, his works are, too. Who will finish telling of his mercies and grandeurs?’ Fr Alan Roberts led the Council of Priests through an exercise of gratefulness for the year that is fast drawing to a close. […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson rsm3 October 2011 An absentee landowner with slaves to do his bidding is not a very attractive hero for a story, at least not from a 21st century perspective. The chief priests and elders, Jesus’ audience, make this character even less attractive than Jesus may have intended. They complete Jesus’ story by […]
Frank Brennan4 October 2011 Ultimately, hope is an act of the imagination. We are forever moving from a past, into a present and towards an imagined future. We have always done this. Serious illness does not suddenly bring the sense of hope into focus. In an illness where there is despair or depression or a […]