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 listened to part of the pope’s message and were able to come to an understanding of what it means to be going to World Youth Day in Sydney 2008. We shared ideas and learnt about what it means to be a pilgrim. We discovered many amazing people in our lives that we just assumed were ‘average’.
As well as the consideration of the central role of the Eucharist as ‘the source and summit of the Christian life’, we heard that a Eucharist ‘which does not pass over into the concrete practice of love is intrinsically fragmented’.
It’s really important to call on the folks in Taranaki because they have done so much for me in the past two and half years. The Mission Rest Home and the Brothers residence are a crucial part of my healing along with the parish and folk of Stratford and Hawera. It’s with a real sense of importance that I revisit them.
The Hui Aranga has been meeting every Easter since 1946. This year, the hui attracted some 1500 people to St Patrick’s College, Silverstream where the competition was hot in all ways.
Parishes 9 April 2008 Good Friday became unusually personal this year for audiences at a musical drama performed by Ss Peter & Paul Lower Hutt WYD pilgrims. They found themselves pulled into the action as the musical challenged them to acknowledge real responsibility for the suffering and death of Jesus. ‘One Friday In Eternity’, based […]
Why did it take us so long to learn that God was there before we arrived; that every local church is both mission-sending and mission-receiving; to respect rather than to disrespect local culture; to be culturally sensitive rather than culturally dismissive?
Part of their role is to facilitate an annual meeting of the representatives of 92 countries from all of the continents of the world where Worldwide Marriage Encounter is currently operating. The most recent of these meetings was held in Rome in January
‘Mandala’ the Sanscrit word for circle, represents wholeness, the connectedness of all things’”a model for the organisational structure of life itself, represented in nature’s daisy.
He finds that the principles associated with CST, for example, the commitment to working for the good of all, are vital to the integrity of the work Caritas does in his country.
The Standards for Engagement: Guidelines for Central and Local Government, and NGOs Working with Refugee Background Communities is based on nine standards developed by ChangeMakers in conjunction with government and non-government agencies. ChangeMakers works in the Wellington region.