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Some 120 young pilgrims from Aotearoa New Zealand have embarked on an experience of a lifetime travelling together to Lisbon, Portugal, to attend World Youth Day 2023. There, they will join over 400,000 young people from all over the world to take part in the 37th WYD, from 1–6 August 2023.
Treated to songs, gifts and a paper medallion designating him ‘hero’, Pope Francis visited children, on 18 July, attending a month-long summer camp in The Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. About 250 children of Vatican employees welcomed the pope, who greeted the children and counsellors, and posed for pictures. Pope Francis spoke to the […]
The Trustees of the Ogonowska Education Charitable Trust – Jenny Gordon MNZM, Halina Ogonowska-Coates and Gordon Noble-Campbell – have announced the awarding of two grants for 2023 to two secondary school students.
Twenty-three candidates received their First Holy Communion at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Richmond, in June, with parish priest Fr Michael Bellizzi. Photo: Supplied
While places for the Hearts Aflame Catholic Summer School 2024 have now sold out, organisers have announced that the inaugural Bishop Basil Meeking Hearts Aflame Scholarship is open for applications.
The new youth life guide called Identity:Identified, introduced at a Young Mass in the Archdiocese in March, was also launched in Auckland at the WYD23 Pilgrims’ Commissioning Mass on 9 July.
More than 20 students from Sacred Heart College Napier and St John’s College Hastings took to the stage at Theatre Hawke’s Bay for four nights in July for their combined production of the musical Godspell.
As preparation for Social Justice Week in September, Te Kupenga – Catholic Theological College is running a free Zoom event, ‘Challenging the Status Quo!’, Thursday, 31 August, 6pm–7.30pm. Speaker is Lyn Smith. Go to www.tekupenga.ac.nz to register.
St Patrick’s College Wellington choir, Con Anima, are off to the Big Sing Finale in Auckland, 25–27 August, after qualifying in the Wellington regional Big Sing festival in June.
Young people aged 13–25 years and youth leaders are invited to join a Wellington World Youth Day, Sunday 6 August, at Bishop Viard College, Porirua. Worship from 1pm and Mass celebrated by Archbishop Paul Martin sm at 1.45pm, followed by events, speakers, workshops, performances and a Youth rally. Register online for free ticket: tinyurl.com/WYD-Wellington-Tickets.