Welcom Archive 2007-2026

They will be the first point-of-contact for all pastoral concerns from parish priests, lay pastoral leaders, parish pastoral councils, pastoral area councils, and pastoral area teams.

The Monsignor Moore Education Trust has updated its trust deed for Charities Commission registration and changed it to incorporate the other two Wairarapa parishes besides St Patrick’s, Masterton, where it is based.

Another partnership was celebrated last month with the signing of the largest treaty settlement in New Zealand’s history, worth some $400 million including 176,000 hectares in crown forests and about $223 million in rentals that have accumulated on the land since 1989 and an annual income stream of $13 million.

The New Testament writings began around the year 50 CE (common era) when a travelling missionary, anxious about a group of converts that he had called to follow Christ, could not get back to see how they were faring. Instead he wrote them a letter. The missionary was Paul; the letter was 1 Thessalonians.

Some mornings I stand under the shower and think of being baptised into a new day. As the water cascades over my head I imagine Jesus in the Jordan river, probably standing much the same way and thinking of his life ahead.

Like the whisper of a gentle breeze the breath of the spirit takes me by surprise, awakens me, and touches the church and all mankind in unfathomable ways.