Tag: st joseph’s school hastings

October 31, 2013

Sisters of St Joseph in Hastings

Palmerston North November 2013 Annette Moran St Joseph’s School Hastings is celebrating next February 125 years since three Sisters of St Joseph of Nazareth arrived from Whanganui, to open the convent and school. Initially named Sacred Heart, the school was blessed and offically opened on 17 September 1888 by Bishop Grimes SM of Christchurch, assisted […]

October 3, 2013

Hastings pupils rise to a uniformed occasion

Schools October 2013 Kelly Beals On 18 August the pupils at Hastings’ St Joseph’s School celebrated Sunday Mass in their school uniforms at Sacred Heart for the first time in five years. Over the past few years, the school has worked with the parish to help with the pastoral area’s monthly children’s Masses which the […]