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).
We have all felt jolted out of the habitual, and now have to make a more conscious choice of the words we say at Mass. It is uncomfortable and perhaps at times embarrassing as we juggle the old and the new.
The extraordinary expenditures placed a heavy burden on the Jerusalem peasantry. This was compounded by large demands for tithes, tributes and taxes. No account was taken of the overlapping claims of king, high priest, and Rome, creating a triple demand that bled the country and people to death.
Archbishop John Dew December 2010 This is a wonderful phrase ‘God’s great enterprise of self-giving’. We prepare during this Season of Advent for the self-giving of God at Christmas. We are blessed to be the people who benefit from the self-giving of God in every liturgy we celebrate: Liturgy is essentially something given and, in […]
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The New Zealand Catholic Bishops convey their deepest sympathies to the families, friends and loved ones of the men who lost their lives at the Pike River coal mine.
Catholic Churches around New Zealand are dedicating their daily Masses to the miners who lost their lives at the Pike River coal mine and to their loved ones.