But where to from here? What about when the pilgrims come home? New Zealand’s World Youth Day journey has been likened to building a cathedral; there are a number of similarities in time, effort and financial investment spent on this event.
As well as bringing in some cash to help World Youth Day pilgrims to Sydney, it proved a great opportunity to bring parishioners from the parishes and schools in the area to party together. Some even came from Whanganui!
Pope Benedict has declared June 2008 to begin a year of St Paul to mark 2000 years since the birth of this great apostle. For all of us, it gives a good incentive to reflect on the greatest missionary of the early church.
Having studied the document carefully, and having listened to the request of some Catholics in the archdiocese, I, as Archbishop of Wellington, have made a Special Pastoral Provision for a regular Mass in Latin in St John’s Church, Ngaio.
A challenge to the government’s providing subsidies for working families but not for beneficiaries starts this month in the High Court.
The failure to pass on tax reductions for the lowest tax bracket to beneficiaries is particularly cruel, says Caritas.
How developing a sabbath spirituality may help us cope in a frenetic world.