Sunday, January 14, 2024

NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE


National Calendar 2024 and National Liturgy Office prayer resources available online
The NZCBC's National Calendar 2024, which sets out many relevant dates for the Church year, is available online ... The National Liturgy Office is also busy posting parish and personal prayer resources ...



** Warning: fake NZCBC Facebook page: Please be aware:  Somebody has created a fake NZ Catholic Bishops Conference Facebook account and is contacting people who have left messages on this real Facebook page, asking them to become "FB friends" ...

** Sunday marks the 186th anniversary of Bishop Jean Baptiste François Pompallier celebrating the first Mass in NZ, at Totara Point on the Hokianga Harbour. Bishop Steve invites everyone to Mass there at 11am.

** Te Kupenga-Catholic Theological College is back for 2024 with the fourth and last series of its online Leadership webinars: Complex Social Issues for School Boards. 

** The President of Caritas Japan, Bishop Daisuke Narui of Niigata, tells Vatican News about the difficulties faced by the nation's people following the deadly recent earthquake, which has killed more than 200 ...

** The Tribunal of the Catholic Church is the official ecclesiastical court of the Church. The Diocese of Christchurch has an excellent website about the Tribunal: https://www.catholictribunal.nz/

** The latest Kete Korero, the magazine of the Diocese of Hamilton, has been published. It's available online as well as in print. It includes articles by and about the new Bishop of Hamilton, Richard Laurenson

** In three days, we mark 186 years since  the first Mass celebrated in New Zealand, by Bishop Jean Baptiste François Pompallier at Totara Point on the Hokianga Harbour, 13 January 1838.

** With the Christmas holidays over for many and the Church back into Ordinary Time following Advent and Christmas, this is to remind or alert you to the NZCBC's National Calendar 2024,

** Sunday January 21 is Word of God Sunday. The theme this year is from John 8:31 "Remain in My Word." The National Liturgy Office has resources for this ...

** Msgr Tomáš Halík is a highly acclaimed author, lecturer, psychotherapist, underground priest, psychologist of religion and pastoral theologian at Charles University Prague. He'll be in New Zealand next month.


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'NZ CATHOLIC' 

Full text articles: https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2024/  

The full content of the previous issue is free to read by clicking on its cover on the NZC's home page (right-hand column)

The next issue of 'NZ Catholic' will be published on 11 February 2024.

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

Art showcase collects 240 items for show, sale
Artists and art lovers alike will descend on Wanaka's Holy Family Catholic School this weekend, as the Craigs Aspiring Art Prize returns for another year.
The annual showcase sees artists from across New Zealand submit original pieces for judgement, all of which will be on display and available for sale across the weekend. Started in 2007, the Craigs Aspiring Art Prize is Holy Family Catholic School's main fundraising event of the year. It raised $30,000 for the school in 2023 ...

Sacred Heart College named New Zealand's best high school rugby team over Westlake, Southland Boys' High
Auckland's Sacred Heart College has been named as the best New Zealanders in the nextgenxv.com website's rankings of the world's top 20 rugby schools for 2023 - despite not even making the national top four in national schoolboy first XV competition ...

Ex-Grizzlies player set to represent NZ
Finn Hellyer-Waihape is the latest in a line of former Gore Grizzlies players to be selected to represent New Zealand. Last month the 17-year-old St Peter's College pupil was selected for the New Zealand men's under-18 ice hockey team ...

Builder, civil engineer, innovator and family man
The Post 23 Dec 2023
At his Requiem Mass in Lower Hutt recently, Peter Lawrence McGuinness, who has died aged 76, was remembered for his big-hearted laugh, his 50 years in the construction industry, a lifetime of support for schools, churches and sports clubs, and his enjoyment and love for his family. Many of Wellington's most distinctive buildings, from Government House and the Chews Lane Precinct to the Wharewaka and Clyde Quay Wharf Apartments, have been built or refurbished under the expert engineering eye of "Pete" McGuinness.

Catholic parish parking lease in limbo after iReX collapse
New parking spaces that have been painted in Picton might never be needed. Marlborough's Catholic parish is "playing the wait and see game" after agreeing to provide parking spaces for contractors working on the now-scrapped Cook Strait ferry project.

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SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (B)   
Anniversary of the first Mass celebrated in New Zealand by Bishop Pompallier in January 1838

Sunday Mass videos will resume on 4 February 2024 at: https://www.youtube.com/c/AucklandCatholic/videos


New Zealand Commentaries on the Readings for the Sundays of the Year: 

Scripture: Called to follow. A brief commentary on the Sunday Readings by Fr Kevin Waldie SM

Homily Studio (podcast): Sunday January 14 2024 (mislabelled 2023)
Join Kate Kearins (standing in for Fr John O'Connor) with Jane Maisey and Catherine Gibbs reflecting on the scriptures for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Marist Laity NZ. Living The Word:  2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time: "Come and see"

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CRUX - Edited by John L. Allen Jr. and Inés San Martin


Malta prelate, Vatican official says priests should be allowed to be married
Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, who also serves as an adjunct secretary of the Holy See's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, says the Catholic Church has lost "good priests just because they chose marriage" ...

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EMPLOYMENT 
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Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised on the Website of the Education Gazette: 

Vacancies at Caritas Aotearoa: 

Job vacancies in the Catholic dioceses of ...


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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND


The six dioceses:

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New Zealand Catholic 
Periodicals & Newsletters
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'NZ Catholic' is a national newspaper published by the Catholic Bishop of Auckland. https://nzcatholic.org.nz/

Catholic Diocese of Hamilton. 'Kete Korero'. 

Catholic Dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington. 'Wel-com'  http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/welcom/

Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform'  

Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. Newsletter

NZ Catholic Education Office Newsletter 'Kotui'

The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/

St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East' 

Society of Saint Vincent de Paul NZ. 
https://www.svdp.org.nz/resources/  Newsletters. News in Brief:  

'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine. 

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NZ Catholic Bishops' Conference

Catholic Discovery NZ (Catholic Enquiry Centre)

'NZ Catholic' newspaper

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand

Catholic Theological College

Holy Cross Seminary

Marist Seminary, Auckland NZ

Society of St Vincent de Paul NZ

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News of the Church 
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