Category: Young Church

While places for the Hearts Aflame Catholic Summer School 2024 have now sold out, organisers have announced that the inaugural Bishop Basil Meeking Hearts Aflame Scholarship is open for applications.

Twenty-three candidates received their First Holy Communion at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Richmond, in June, with parish priest Fr Michael Bellizzi. Photo: Supplied

The Holy See Press Office has released Pope Francis’ schedule, on 6 June, for the 2023 World Youth Day, which will take place from 1 to 6 August 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal.   Over 400,000 young people have registered to take part in the event. In a video message released early June, the Holy Father said […]

World Youth Day is one of the biggest gatherings of young people on the planet and was dreamed into reality by St Pope John Paul II. A number of young New Zealand Catholics will be making a pilgrimage to WYD in Lisbon, Portugal, in August to join with other young Catholics from around the world.

Young people in the Wellington Archdiocese are invited to join a celebration for World Youth Day on Sunday 6 August, from 1pm–8pm at Bishop Viard College, Porirua. The celebrations will begin with Worship from 1pm, with Mass at 1.45pm celebrated by Archbishop Paul Martin sm, followed by events, speakers, workshops and a Youth Rally. 

Parishioners of the Catholic Parish of Whanganui – Te Parihi Katorika Ki Whanganui were invited by parish priest Fr Craig Butler, at Sunday Eucharist on 14 May, to extend their right hands as Rain [Lorraine] Forrest was commissioned as a youth minister.

Dedication to protecting the environment has seen Lauren Harkness, a Year 12 student at Sacred Heart College Napier, named as 2023 Leader of the Year by the Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award.

The annual Big Sing Regional festival is always a highlight for our St Patrick’s College, Kilbirnie, choir ‘Con Anima’. This year the overall standard of the other college choirs in attendance was the best we had seen in some time. 

First Holy Communion was made by a group of children at St Joseph’s Church amidst a busy few weeks of celebration at the small Eucharistic community at Shannon.