From July 7 to 14 some 400 pilgrims will touch down in the dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington for a cultural, social and faith-filled exchange’”spending time in our parishes, experiencing life in a Kiwi household, praying, eating and walking with us as pilgrims to WYD in Sydney.
Connect.org.nz aims ‘to be an online infrastructure that assists young Catholic Kiwis to live fully and be connected to Christ, the church and each other’.
Our group’”Wellington East Pastoral Area WYD group’”has a great team of leaders who happily welcomed us all to share the journey together. The group ranges from families to college and university students.
The World Youth Day 2008 theme, received from the Holy Father, is ‘You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses’ [Acts 1:8]. Explain the relevance of the theme in our lives today, and outline ways by which you can be a witness to Jesus Christ.
Chris Willcock’s latest album of songs, Who Did You See, contains the song which will be sung as the gathering song for the papal Mass at World Youth Day.
30 April 2008
Caritas is urging the UN Security Council to impose an immediate arms embargo on Zimbabwe. Church leaders in the country say that without international intervention Zimbabweans face genocide.
World News 30 April 2008 Caritas Internationalis joins Caritas Sri Lanka in condemning the death of Fr Karunaratnam, who was killed in a bomb blast in the north of the country on April 20. Fr Karunaratnam was the chair of the North East Secretariat on Human Rights, which aims to recognise and respect the human […]
Ramos-Horta, 58, returned from Darwin last week (April 20) after treatment for bullet wounds sustained in the February 11 assassination attempt outside his home. Rebel leader Alfredo Alves Reinado was killed at the scene.
Grief is very intense for young adults. Chris’s friends were shocked, disbelieving, angry, and questioning. ‘Where is Chris now?’ ‘Why do people die?’ ‘If God is a loving God and all powerful, why did he let Chris die?’ ‘Could I die soon, too?’ ‘He was my mate, and he is dead. What do I do now?’
For 75 hours he was lost at sea, yet Rob Hewitt survived to tell of an extraordinary spiritual journey that kept him alive and vibrantly fit to begin a renewed life with his family.