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).
News 31 May 2012 Christine Dwyer and Sr Trish Hanaray greeting the parishioners of Ss Peter and Paul Parish Lower Hutt as they took off their shoes before entering St Bernard’s College gymnasium for Easter Sunday Mass on April 8. The gym, which parishioners had transformed with white peace lillies, was packed and the community […]
News 3 July 2012 Caritas received 24 entries from all over New Zealand in its SINGout4Justice music writing competition. For many students who entered this was their first ever experience in putting their words to music. Schools vary widely in the facilities they can offer young songwriters. But no matter whether they are working from […]
News Derek Johnson3 July 2012 You could have heard a pin drop in Te Papa when 300 young leaders from 30 schools throughout the archdiocese listened to Cure Kids ambassador Alexander McKay on June 14 at the Catholic Young Leaders Conference. This engaging young man was deputy head boy in his last year at Auckland’s […]
News Derek Johnson2 August 2012 On August 10, 2012, protesters will gather outside Wellington Hospital where Capital and Coast DHB is holding its board meeting, to protest against cuts in Newtown Union Health Service’s budget.NUHS, set up in 1987 to serve a diverse, low-income and often vulnerable population, was given three months’ notice of losing […]
This is a translation of Archbishop John Dew’s address to the Samoan catechists published in the March issue. O le saunoaga toe teuteuina lenei a le afioga i le Akiepikopo John Dew i le Matagalua Samoa i le aso 12 o Fepuari 2011, e toe fa’amalamalamaina ai mo le taimi mulimuli, lana talanoaga sa faia […]
Parishes Jan Williams3 December 2011A weekend of celebrations marked 60 years of Our Lady of Grace parish and 50 years of St Brendan’s school in Heretaunga on the last weekend of October. Hundreds of parishioners and former parishioners and friends packed the Heretaunga church for three Masses of Thanksgiving. The church was decorated with the […]
Parishes 3 December 2011 Brooklyn parish’s new youth group, Eleven Up, is about to deliver timetables for Advent and Christmas around the parish, the culmination of a busy inaugural year. The group for young people in Year 7 and up started in May and meets monthly after the Saturday Vigil Mass. Meetings are a mixture […]
Parishes Olivia Wallis and Kodee Arbuthnott9 November 2011 Ss Peter and Paul school in Lower Hutt has celebrated the baptism of a group of year seven and eight intermediate girls. Frs Bruce England and Verghese Thuruthichira baptised Elodie Tafatu, Emmerson Cole, Caitlin Walker, Ashlee Curtis, Rongomai-Wahine Hamlin and Leiloa Tanuvasa-Kamo on Friday August 12 in […]
Parishes Kathy Orr-Nimmo17 August 2011 Saturday June 11, 2011 marked exactly 100 years after the opening and blessing of St Anthony’s Church, Brooklyn (now St Bernard’s). Over the weekend of June 11, the parish celebrated the centenary of its church building, and the golden jubilee of the parish. In early 1961 St Anthony’s became a […]
Parishes Lorraine O’Hagan and Margaret Orange5 May 2011‘I’d love to do that!’ A loved and admired member of St Mary’s Parish, Carterton, Lorraine O’Hagan, didn’t hesitate when her son John proposed a canoe trip down the Whanganui River for interested family. The fact that Lorraine has heart problems and is in her 70s was no […]