WelCom June 2017: This month WelCom’s journey of faith through the many pastoral areas of the Palmerston North and Wellington dioceses, calls on the rural lands of Central Hawke’s Bay and the Holy Trinity Parish, which includes St Joseph Church and School in Waipukurau, St Patrick Church in Waipukurau and Southern Star Abbey in Kopua, […]
WelCom June 2017: The chalice of Petone WW1 chaplain, Fr James McMenamin, was returned to New Zealand after his death in Belgium on the second day of the Battle of Messines in 1917. One hundred years later, it is on its way back to Belgium to be used in the memorial services for Fr McMenamin […]
WelCom June 2017: A series of 15 carved panels have been created for St Mary’s Church in Blenheim. The fifteenth and final panel was installed in the church on 21 April this year. Parishioner and the panel carver, Jim Davis, explains. On the fifteenth panel are carved the names of the ministers of Baptism (priests, midwives […]
WelCom June 2017: Many of us can probably hum the refrain ‘It ain’t necessarily so’, sung by the drug dealer, Sportin’ Life, in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. ‘Jonah he lived in a whale… Methusalah lived 900 years… It ain’t necessarily so, the things you read in the Bible.’ I sometimes wonder how far we have progressed […]
WelCom June 2017: This year is Year A of the Liturgical Cycle, in which we are following the Gospel of Matthew on Sundays during Ordinary Time. In her series of articles for WelCom Dr Elizabeth Julian rsm addresses some basic questions about Matthew’s gospel to show how it is relevant to our lives today. ‘Come […]
WelCom June 2017: October this year sees the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, which brought the Catholic Church into deep conflict and schisms. The Catholic Church today is not the same as the Church with which Martin Luther and the other Reformers came into such deep conflict. Luther wanted to reform his own church […]
WelCom June 2017: Wellington Catholic Social Services has moved to the Compassion Centre Soup Kitchen, in Tory St, Wellington. On 27 April, Sr Margaret Anne Mills, Congregational Leader for the Sisters of Compassion, formally welcomed CSS to the building. She said the Sisters and staff of the Soup Kitchen were looking forward to working […]
WelCom June 2017: Every year, the Sisters of Compassion at Island Bay celebrate the birthday of their founder, Suzanne Aubert, with a ‘birthday’ Mass. Suzanne was born in Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay, near Lyon in France, on 19 June 1835. Marking Suzanne’s ‘182nd birthday’ this year’s Mass will be celebrated at 6pm, Monday 19 June, at St Anne’s […]
WelCom June 2017: When Fr Don Don Rancho of the Catholic Parish of Whanganui – Te Parihi Katorika ki Whanganui, announced to the congregation at Sunday morning Mass on 26 March 2017 that Fr Des Levins had died, there were exclamations of disbelief. A minute’s silence was held as a sign of respect and Mass […]
WelCom June 2017: Palmerston North Diocese members of the Catholic Women’s League of Aotearoa New Zealand met over 26 and 27 April for their biennial conference at the Diocesan Pastoral Centre. Women from New Plymouth, Inglewood, Napier and Pahiatua as well as visitors from other branches listened to a range of presenters and discussed key […]