WelCom is the monthly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington. Print copies of the eight-page newsletter are free and available in parishes, and sent to parishes and schools in PDF form. The archive contains WelCom stories published from 2007 to 2026 (May).
WelCom November 2020 Earlier this year the Archdiocese was on course to sponsor a conference entitled ‘Takirua 2020 – Shaping the Mission’. The conference was scheduled to take place over Anzac weekend in April with about 300 people from all over New Zealand registered to attend. ‘Shaping the Mission’ was to be the first time […]
WelCom November 2020 Sio Iaseto-Filo, Gap Year Coordinator, Youth Minister, Challenge 2000 Challenge 2000 is a Gospel-based youth development and social service Trust. Based in Johnsonville, it provides a wide range of programmes, projects and services for young people, communities and families in the Wellington Region. Challenge includes in its mission an annual Challenge 2000-Marist […]
WelCom November 2020 Karen Holland and Vivien Chiu, Catholic Social Services ‘I was sick and in prison and you came to visit me.’ Last month Cardinal John Dew commissioned two chaplains from the Archdiocese of Wellington. At Sunday Mass on October 4, at St Michael’s Church, Taita, Falelou Sio was commissioned as Catholic chaplain to […]
WelCom November 2020 Sue Seconi and Emma Dodsworth Parishioners and clergy from across the Diocese of Palmerston North gathered in the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit on October 8, for Mass to rejoice with priests celebrating Ordination and Bishops their episcopal anniversaries. The eight celebrating priests were Fr John McLaughlin, 65 years; Fr Frank Twiss […]
WelCom November 2020 Lisa Beech Families, households, parishes, individuals, schools and communities of the Archdiocese of Wellington are encouraged to find appropriate ways to share food with others this year for the World Day of the Poor, on Sunday 15 November 2020. In the context of our more fragmented and disconnected communities, following the Covid-19 […]
WelCom November 2020 Work by the Society of St Vincent de Paul during the Covid-19 lockdown to support the needs of the community has helped many people to feel connected in a suddenly disconnected world, Cardinal John Dew said at a Mass for the feast of St Vincent de Paul on September 27, 2020. The […]
WelCom November 2020 The little Catholic church of St Peter and St Paul at Kauwhata Marae, Te Arakura Road, Kai Iwi, near Feilding, turned 125 years old on Tuesday, 20 October, 2020. The people of Ngāti Kauwhata gathered at the church to celebrate this milestone. Built in 1895, the church was opened on October 20 […]
WelCom November 2020 Fr James Lyons When Jesus told Pilate he’d come to bear witness to the truth, he knew he’d sealed his fate. Pilate’s response, What is truth? is the response of a person whose mind is wearied from alternatives and compromise and closed to the possibility of finding the key to a completely […]
WelCom November 2020 Thinking after Covid-19: guests at the Lord’s table The pandemic has made anyone who enters a church sensitive like never before to how we are arranged in the building. Two metres apart! No bunching up! Signs on seats where we may sit. Tape on other seats making them off limits. Signs on […]
WelCom November 2020 Pope Francis announced at the end of his Angelus address on October 25, he will create 13 new cardinals on November 28. Nine cardinals under the age of 80 will be eligible to vote in a conclave. The new cardinals are: Maltese Bishop Mario Grech, 63, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops. […]