Welcom Archive 2007-2026

It was with sadness Deacon Danny Karatea-Goddard of Wellington shared the news that friend to many Marguerite Osborne (Ngāwati) had passed away on Monday 25 September, 2023.

Palmerston North’s Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Spirit reopened last month after an arson attack in April closed it for several months.

The closure of Sacred Heart Cathedral in 2018 did not cancel worship.

Connolly Hall, the social centre at the side of the cathedral, quickly became the Mass centre for the parish, for weekday and Sunday Masses.

St Bernadette’s church and school community of Naenae, Lower Hutt, celebrated their 75th jubilee year in August. 

The Sisters of Mercy’s presence in Palmerston North for many years will come to an end when Sr Cecily Finucane rsm moves to Villa Joseph in Upper Hutt. She will join Srs Joan Manson and Pamela Ward who also recently moved there from Palmerston North.

‘Those who sing pray twice,’ said St Augustine. 

The choir at St Teresa’s Church, Karori, Wellington, is looking for new members. Under the directorship of Douglas Mews, besides leading the congregational singing, the choir sings a variety of liturgical music: Palestrina motets, plainsong hymns, Māori waiata, Gelineau psalms as well as modern repertoire.

The Marist St Pat’s Rugby Football Club Premier Women’s team have cleaned up at the famous club’s annual prize-giving. Along with Team of the Year honours, Monica Tagoai, a St Mary’s College Old Girl, became the first woman player to win Marist St Pat’s Paul Donoghue Cup for Sportsperson of the Year.

Maureen McKillop and Sarah Dench, two Wellington members of Christian Life Community – an Ignatian Lay organisation, attended the five-yearly World Assembly – in Amiens, France.