Wellington

Around 60 priests, lay leaders and Catholic Centre staff attended a ministry formation day last month to look at the issues concerning the more rigorous building codes that have been adopted since more»

They should have been on holiday, celebrating the end of exams. Instead, on December 10, 59 young people from around the archdiocese gathered in Paraparaumu to celebrate and explore the time, treasure and talents they have to offer as Young Catholic Leaders. more»

Andrew enjoyed the discipline of regular meals – 'I thought we had to eat snacks between meals but the army taught us how to eat the right amount of food at meals'.
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The workshops also show how the signs, symbols and actions of the Mass can be used to speak to the senses, so that children can experience the Mass more fully. more»

Other, more self-reflective questions were asked of them, such as, 'how welcome do I make others feel when they encroach on 'my time'? more»

In his welcome, Archbishop John Dew said he had attended a similar conference in Australia two years ago. Afterwards, he realised how much stewardship challenged him to live a life of discipleship and not just talk about it. more»

Wellington supporters of the Catholic Enquiry Centre gathered in the foyer of Sacred Heart Cathedral on July 24 to celebrate thethe centre's 50th birthday and to see a display of paintings from a competition the centre has been running for its jubilee.
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We live in a gifted environment. God does not give us this mission and then not give us the means and resource to accomplish it.
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Frank's self-deprecating humour is a quality that all of our jubilarians have crafted over the years: Pat Greally, Bryan Montgomery, Petelo Mauga, Fred Bliss and Edmund Little [as has Colin Karalus who celebrates 55 years of priesthood this Saturday]. I shall leave it to Gerard Burns to develop this theme in his toast to the jubilarians.
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A gathering to farewell three leaders of the Hutt Valley RCIA team was held at Ss Peter and Paul Parish on Saturday June 18. more»

The service was able to provide her with three new bassinets on short-term loan. Others assisted include a number of women needing suitably small-sized clothing for their babies born premature.
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After training as a nurse, Mary entered the Little Company of Mary at 20 and was professed two years later in 1951. She nursed in Sydney and Adelaide where she also did midwifery. more»

Three students from St Patrick's Parish Paraparaumu have recently completed the Certificate in Catholic Youth Ministry through the Catholic Education Centre in Wellington. more»

A packed cathedral of family and friends rejoiced with over 100 recipients of the first Fitzgerald Awards of the Archdiocese of Wellington last month. more»

The leader of a grief counselling programme in the high-medium unit of Rimutaka Prison says the men she works with are struggling day-to-day because they have no one in whom they can safely confide. more»

Convent Old Girls Netball Club the oldest club still in existence in the Hutt Valley recently celebrated its 75th Jubilee at the Angus Inn in Lower Hutt with more than 100 past and present players and friends. more»

Former spiritual directors at Frederic Wallis House will be back in the Hutt to launch the restored former retreat house's labyrinth pathway into a new era when it is officially reopened on its new Hutt Hospital site on Sunday March 1. more»

The first Newtown People's Market and Boot Sale was such a success last year that organisers have decided to run it each month on the last Saturday, 11am to 3pm at St Anne's Church Hall, Emmett Street, Newtown. more»

Even before the diocese was established, there were the beginnings of the Catholic community in Wellington bringing together Catholic immigrant families. Bishop Pompallier celebrated the first Mass in Wellington on Christmas Day, 1840. more»

Sr John Bosco taught in Catholic primary schools in Hataitai, Naenae, Upper Hutt, Reefton, Westport and Kilbirnie and later at Hato Paora College, Feilding. more»