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 June 2017: The recently released findings into the contaminated water-supply at Havelock North are a wakeup call about clean water-management processes, responsibilities and accountabilities for all of us. The OECD and the Ministry for the Environment reports on New Zealand’s environment, released in April, include specific sections on water resources and fresh water management. In […]
WelCom June 2017: The rising of the star cluster Matariki (the Pleiades) signals the start of the Māori New Year. The cluster usually appears low on the north-eastern horizon in early June. This year, Matariki may be seen as early as 6 June. Traditionally Matariki signalled among other things, the end of the harvest when pātaka […]
He Rā Īnoinga mō Te Hunga Taurewa me Te Hunga Taurahere WelCom June 2017: A Day of Prayer for Refugees and Migrants is set aside each year by the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference to fall as close as possible to World Refugee Day on 20 June. This year, the prayer day is on Sunday, […]
WelCom June 2017: Pope Sends Telegram for Terrorist Attack at Concert in Manchester Pope Francis has sent his condolences to the victims of the terrorist attack on 22 May 2017 in Manchester, UK, at the concert of young American singer, Ariana Grande. The explosion claimed the lives of at least 22 people and injured some […]
WelCom June 2017: In 1817 St Marcellin Champagnat founded the Marist Brothers in France in the wake of the devastation wreaked by the French Revolution, especially as it affected the education of children. From beginning with two young men, the Order is now found in 79 countries on five continents and numbers about 3500 Brothers, and […]
WelCom June 2017: This month WelCom’s journey of faith through the many pastoral areas of the Palmerston North and Wellington dioceses, calls on the rural lands of Central Hawke’s Bay and the Holy Trinity Parish, which includes St Joseph Church and School in Waipukurau, St Patrick Church in Waipukurau and Southern Star Abbey in Kopua, […]
WelCom June 2017: The chalice of Petone WW1 chaplain, Fr James McMenamin, was returned to New Zealand after his death in Belgium on the second day of the Battle of Messines in 1917. One hundred years later, it is on its way back to Belgium to be used in the memorial services for Fr McMenamin […]
WelCom June 2017: A series of 15 carved panels have been created for St Mary’s Church in Blenheim. The fifteenth and final panel was installed in the church on 21 April this year. Parishioner and the panel carver, Jim Davis, explains. On the fifteenth panel are carved the names of the ministers of Baptism (priests, midwives […]
WelCom June 2017: Many of us can probably hum the refrain ‘It ain’t necessarily so’, sung by the drug dealer, Sportin’ Life, in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. ‘Jonah he lived in a whale… Methusalah lived 900 years… It ain’t necessarily so, the things you read in the Bible.’ I sometimes wonder how far we have progressed […]
WelCom June 2017: This year is Year A of the Liturgical Cycle, in which we are following the Gospel of Matthew on Sundays during Ordinary Time. In her series of articles for WelCom Dr Elizabeth Julian rsm addresses some basic questions about Matthew’s gospel to show how it is relevant to our lives today. ‘Come […]