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 October 2018: Fr Ron Bennett The Second Vatican Council stressed the role of all people in the life of the Church. The Worldwide Marriage Encounter Movement grew out of this. It began in the Wellington Archdiocese (now Wellington and Palmerston North dioceses) in June 1978. The programme teaches a way of communication, creating a closeness […]
WelCom October 2018: Mary Fama The chilly May weather gave impetus again this year to our Hastings Parish ‘Needy Children’ project, to distribute thermal clothing to children in our district. Our parish’s Environmental and Social Justice (ESJ) group developed and ran the project. Supported by a diocesan contribution of $3000 and private donations of $6800, the […]
WelCom October 2018: Sarah Richards, NZ Bible Society This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Te Paipera Tapu ‒ The Holy Bible in Māori. Te Paipera Tapu, first published in 1868, has just been digitised. This digitised version will be one of the many tools used to help produce a […]
WelCom October 2018: Last month, WelCom published in full an unprecedented letter from Pope Francis to the people of God, following the release in August of the Pennsylvania grand jury report on sexual abuse by priests and others in the Church and the cover-ups that have enabled this behaviour to continue. In his letter, 20 August […]
WelCom October 2018: Joy Cowley Our awareness of God grows in the context of human experience, and as our understanding of ourselves deepens, so does our spiritual life. We don’t live faith backwards: God always takes us forward to a larger place. We can look back on our lives and see times when we were very […]
WelCom October 2018: Joan McFetridge Who could not be attracted to a retreat subtitled: ‘Wisdom is life experience well digested, where one story must end for another to begin. Our lives are literally gospel or good news’? In August this year, Joy Cowley, writer and spiritual-retreat director, and Alan Roberts, parish priest and spiritual-retreat director, led […]
WelCom October 2018: Lorraine McArthur Stewardship is about each one of us putting the Gospel into action. In 2016 Cardinal John Dew announced that the Archdiocese would reflect on a dedicated Stewardship theme every October. The theme for October 2018 is ‘The Call to Holiness’. Pope Francis, in Gaudete et Exsultate, Rejoice and be Glad! speaks […]
WelCom October 2018: This article is the third and final part of a series by Fr James Lyons about the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The name of God is Mercy. There can be no other name. St John tells us that God is Love. If love is the essence of God’s being, then mercy is God’s primary […]
WelCom October 2018: In WelCom’s Catholic Thinking series, lecturers from Good Shepherd College – Te Hēpara Pei and The Catholic Institute of New Zealand – Te Pūtahi Katorika ki Aotearoa, share their views about a range of topics on theology, mortality, ethics and faith heritage. This month, Sr Elizabeth Snedden rscj discusses intercession. Intercession is defined […]
WelCom October 2018: The Catholic Institute of Aotearoa New Zealand (TCI) has announced the appointment, from 1 October, of Dr Zachariah Duke, as Acting Academic Dean, Lecturer in Theology and as a Research Fellow with The Nathaniel Centre. TCI Director, Gerald Scanlan, said, ‘we’re delighted to have Zachariah join our team and welcome his wealth of […]