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).
As we prepare to celebrate the risen Christ next weekend, it is timely to consider how those early communities that formed each account of Jesus’ death and resurrection might have gone about discussing and then recording their memories. Here Br Kieran Fen
It’s Holy Week this week and the people of Guatemala will be making their usual large processions. Figures of Christ or Mary are carried on large platforms through the streets carpeted with flowers and coloured sawdust. Crowds of people process or watch t
Do we wake each morning with a sense of newness? Do we see each morning as a promise of Christ’s glorious rising? Will next Sunday, Easter Sunday 2006, be different for us this year? Will we truly be able to say, from our hearts and in a sense with all ou
The numbers of vowed members of religious communities may be diminishing, but the Australian Jesuits have found a way to include in their growing congregation the almost 2,000 lay people who work with them.
The provincial of the Jesuits for Australia
The St Vincent de Paul Society has elected its first woman national president.
At its national council meeting in Wellington on Saturday 18 March, the Society elected Liz Chiappini who is currently president for the Hutt Valley/Wairarapa region.
Early in February the Wellington Catholic Education Centre hosted a web conference. The actual conference was held at Trinity Church in New York, and was transmitted to Wellington via the internet. So, by the wonders of technology, the education centre st
Newtown retreatants in Daily Life went to a wedding recently to get to know better the man of their dreams.
Some 22 people from St Anne’s parish gathered on a Sunday night in March to share what they most wanted out of the five-day retreat, and to po
Nearly 150 people have participated in the Wells of Living Water renewal programme in the first 10 years of its life.
The programme offered by the Marist Emmaus Retreat and Spirituality Centre takes its inspiration from the Gospel story of the Samari
Why do Catholic and non-Catholic Christians decide to marry, given their different denominations? In this article, Sally and John Faisandier discuss this issue, and describe how some couples deal with it.
Sr Catherine Hannan dolc celebrated 50 years of religious life last month. She gave this homily at her parish church, St Joseph’s, MÄoria on 19 March 2006.