WelCom May 2020, Issue 382
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, WelCom is not currently being printed and distributed to parishes and schools. The May 2020 issue of WelCom is available online here as a double-page version.
Welcom Archive 2007-2026
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).
Worshipping Together in our Faith Communities
WelCom May 2020: The last day of the month of May will be Pentecost Sunday. At this stage, we do not know what we can expect in terms of where we are with safety regulations to keep Covid-19 at bay and to keep us all safe. My hope is we will be back in our […]
Pray for Vocations – He Īnoi mō ngā Tūranga Whakapono
WelCom May 2020: Good Shepherd Sunday, 3 May 2020 – Te Rātapu o te Hēpara, Pai 3 o Haratua 2020 Good Shepherd Sunday is on the fourth Sunday in the Easter Season; this year Sunday 3 May. The fourth Sunday of Easter is also Vocations Sunday. Good Shepherd Sunday derives its name from the gospel reading […]
Breathe Life
WelCom May 2020: A Pentecost Reflection for Sunday 31 May 2020 Fr James Lyon Rituals, togetherness and routine. These were among the first things that went missing when we fell victim to Covid-19. We were different without them, and rightly so, for they are the cultural markers that give identity and security in any society. […]
The most deadly pandemic in recorded history
WelCom May 2020: Te mate urutā kikino rawa kua hopukia a hitōria nei Michael Fitzsimons looks at some of the ways that the Catholic community responded to the devastating Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918. The Spanish Flu is estimated to have infected up to 40 per cent of the world’s population and to have killed […]
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
WelCom May 2020: The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is celebrated in New Zealand between Ascension and Pentecost Sundays each year (25–31 May this year). In the Northern Hemisphere it is celebrated in January. The Week of Prayer began as a Catholic observance in 1908 and in the 1920s other Christian churches began their […]
Marking 5 Years of Laudato si’
WelCom May 2020: This year is the fifth anniversary of the publication of Pope Francis’ encyclical on integral human ecology – Laudato si’, on Care for Our Common Home. The Pope released a video message on 3 March 2020 inviting Catholics worldwide to take part in a week, 16–24 May, dedicated to promoting the message […]
The Cannabis Referendum 2020
WelCom May 2020: The latest issue of The Nathaniel Report – the magazine of the Nathaniel Centre, the New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ bioethics centre, published three times a year – includes articles about this year’s general election referendum, on whether or not to legalise recreational cannabis. The following is a synthesis of an article written […]
Aunty says, ‘Get on with it!’ – Nā whāea te kī, ‘Kia horo!’
WelCom May 2020: Deacon Danny Karatea-Goddard With the support of the Māori Apostolate of the Diocese of Palmerston North and subtribe of Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore of Te Hiiri marae, I was ordained deacon on the weekend of Pentecost 2014 by Bishop Charles Drennan. My family and I were received back into the Archdiocese of Wellington in […]
“Peace Be With You”
WelCom May 2020: Lockdown – a time to re-focus ‘Our Easter, lived and celebrated in lockdown, has been one like we have never experienced before. We have felt the pain of not being able to celebrate together the Easter liturgies in our local churches. ‘The future, for many, appears uncertain or even dire. In the […]