World Youth Day on Sunday November 20 was a full day for the archdiocese’s Young Church (YC) team with young people from across the diocese joining together for a range of events to celebrate all that’s happening in the Young Church.
The New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ Council for Young People (CYP) met in Palmerston North last month for their biannual meeting. The council serves the national bishops’ conference and advises in matters about young Church across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Ahead of World Youth Day 2023, a Vatican official has praised the creativity of youth and said they ought to be protagonists not only in the event, but also in the organisational process.
When Tony McBride was announced as the new principal for Whanganui’s Cullinane College at Sunday Eucharist in St Mary’s Church last month, the congregation applauded with their congratulations.
At St Canice’s School in Westport, the student council hosted a ‘Say No to Racism’ activity day on 6 September, for Social Justice Week. Based on the Caritas Aotearoa resources, activities included whole-school hand art, similarity and difference bingo, drama scenarios on how to challenge racism, a word cloud of the qualities Jesus role modelled for us that can help us to be inclusive, and a fitness game called ‘share our superpowers’.
Recognising the importance of pronouncing students’ names correctly saw Napier’s Sacred Heart College teachers head back to the classroom earlier this year.
A ‘Vinnies Soup Week’ held at St Bernard’s College, Lower Hutt, to support the local Vinnies’ food bank also raised $400 for Home of Compassion Soup Kitchen.
Young people came from all over the archdiocese to gather and celebrate a Young Church Mass in August, hosted by Life Teen Petone at Sacred Heart Church and celebrated by Cardinal John Dew. Although Covid had disrupted plans to hold Young Church Mass for a year over 50 teenagers came to share in the Mass […]
Students from all eight Catholic colleges in the archdiocese gathered for the 28th annual Vinnies Mass, at St Patrick’s College chapel in Wellington on Sunday 18 September, to celebrate the works of the St Vincent de Paul Society. The Mass was an opportunity to appreciate the work done at the various schools to support the […]
St Mary’s School of Blenheim is sad to announce that Paddy Dowling, our dedicated principal over the last six years is following his family to Christchurch as high school beckons next year for his growing children.