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).
Archbishop John Dew On Wednesday April 25 just after the Anzac Day Mass in Christchurch where I was attending the Bishops Conference, the bishops did a fairly quick, sobering tour of some of the earthquake affected areas of the city of Christchurch. We started off in the van chatting and laughing about various things, but […]
Palmerston North Clare Sarten8 May 2012 We all know bible stories which feature mountains and, given the significance – both physically and spiritually – of the mountain in our lives in Taranaki we thought it would be a great place for our young people to celebrate Mass. After a week of rain, Sunday December 18 […]
Palmerston North Pat Rhodes4 May 2012 Whanganui Prison invited Manawatu Prison to an inaugural Choir Competition last month. The highly successful event saw the hosts amassing the greater number of points and claiming the trophy. The chaplains of the two prisons organised the occasion which will become an annual event. The programme opened with a […]
Palmerston North Mary Fama4 May 2012 Some 65 parishioners from the Hawke’s Bay Pastoral Area shared a six-day retreat at the beginning of March on Spirituality for Our Times – a shared experience of God, of Church, and of world. The retreat led by Fr Michael Fallon, Margaret Green and Mary Fama from Community for […]
Cecily McNeill4 May 2012 Around 60 priests, lay leaders and Catholic Centre staff attended a ministry formation day last month to look at the issues concerning the more rigorous building codes that have been adopted since the Christchurch quakes. People gathered at Our Lady of Grace parish, Heretaunga, to hear and discuss implications for the […]
Features Msgr John Broadbent4 May 2012 May 28 Pope St Gregory I, who died in 604, had seen young boys from England being sold in the markets of Rome. He was sorry for these young fair-haired and fair-skinned boys being sold as slaves and, when he heard they were not Christians, resolved to work for […]
Reflect Veronica M Lawson RSM4 May 2012 John 15:1-8Again and again, life’s experiences teach us that, as members of the Earth community, we cannot make it on our own. We need one another and we need the other living creatures that inhabit our planet. The gospel reading reminds us that as baptised Christians we are […]
News Fr Bernard O’Donnell3 May 2012 Some 30,000 New Zealand military personnel are buried on foreign soil, casualties of the First and Second World Wars as well as the Vietnam War, Malayan Emergency and the Korean War. To personally pay tribute to men and women, the Dolores Cross Project aims to place a simple, handmade, […]
Palmerston North 5 April 2012 Seven students from the Hastings suburb of Flaxmere have been given a prayerful and celebratory sendoff with a mothers and daughters (all but one are girls) evening on February 23 hosted by the two pastoral workers in the suburb, Sisters of Compassion Srs Shirley and Alisi. The evening was a […]
Palmerston North Fr Kevin Neal5 April 2012 At this time of the year the bishops and key educational staff at the diocesan centre are absent for a day or more at a time. Sometimes they’re just travelling across town but they can be gone for days at a time. They head off, often quite early, […]