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NZ Catholics and Lutherans designate Sixth Sunday of Easter as Festival of New Life
This coming Sixth Sunday of Easter – May 5 – has been designated by the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference and the New Zealand Lutheran Church as the "Festival of New Life", an occasion meant to signal hope and confidence in the move towards Christian unity. It is an initiative of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue, highlighting baptism and its significance for Christian unity ...
NZCBC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CatholicNZ/
** The May 2024 WelCom is out today and available in your church in the Wellington and Palmerston North dioceses.
** St Peter's College in Palmerston North is celebrating its 50th Jubilee on Labour Weekend.
** Pope Francis has written a letter to the 300 parish priests taking part in the international meeting "Parish Priests for the Synod" in Rome, saying that, regardless of how obvious it may seem, the Church couldn't go on without their love, faith and dedication
** Our Bishop of Palmerston North John Adams will be sharing his extensive experience as a parish priest in Christchurch at a Parish Renewal Conference being held in Sydney in August. Read all about it by clicking this article in Australia's Catholic Weekly.
** The bishops are in Dunedin this week for one of their regular NZ Catholic Bishops Conference meetings. Here they are after Mass today, the Feast of St Joseph the Worker, in St Joseph's Cathedral.
** Following the Royal Commission on Abuse in Care? Then please consider completing our anonymous evaluation form. Te Ropu Tautoko, the Church group coordinating Catholic engagement with the Royal Commission, seeks your thoughts on the Church's engagement with the Inquiry.
** On the feast day of St. Joseph the Worker. The Catholic Enquiry Centre has this lovely story about him.
** The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity runs from Sunday May 12 to Sunday May 19. The Catholic Church has been taking part in this special Week for over 50 years.
** In today's CathNews NZ, Christchurch columnist Mike Yardley says Bishop Michael Gielen's announcement about the planned new Catholic cathedral is a welcome breath of fresh air: "
** This coming Sixth Sunday of Easter – May 5 – has been designated by the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference and the New Zealand Lutheran Church as the "Festival of New Life."
** Kia orana! Cook Island Catholics celebrate the ordination of Father Reynaldo Bunyi Getalado from the Mission Society of the Philippines (MSP) as their new coadjutor bishop
** St Peter Chanel SM was murdered on the island of Futuna on 28 April 1841. He was beatified in 1889 and canonised in 1954. He is our patron saint. We celebrate his Feast Day on Monday 29 April.
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
Website: https://nzcatholic.org.nz/
Full text articles: https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2024/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NZCatholic/
The full content of issue 683, April 21 - May 4 is free to read on NZC's home page (right-hand column).
In the issue : Caritas criticises electric car Road User Charges ... Congregational Leaders Conference alarmed by current government discourse on Maori language and treaty ... Teams of safeguarding reviewers appointed (National Office for Professional Standards) ....Call to reduce upward pressure on state-integrated school attendance dues ... Keynote speakers at 2024 Education Convention .... Editorial: Feeling at home in Christian 'ethos' ... Photo feature: Easter observed in some smaller parishes ... Helen Luxford: The mystery of suffering: why do bad things happen to good people ... Michael Otto: Seeing the scorched earth of Hiroshima ... Walking the distance - in solidarity with Gaza (Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage).
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FROM THE CATHOLIC WEEKLY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA
NZ bishop who led earthquake ruins to parish renewal to spearhead Sydney conference
When it comes to spearheading talks at this year's Parish Renewal Conference, who better than the man who watched his church reduced to rubble after the New Zealand earthquakes in 2011? "I was standing next to our triple unreinforced brick church which suffered the biggest of the earthquakes. I watched it fall into the adjoining creek," recalls Bishop John Adams, a man who knows more than most about the true definition of parish renewal ...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
'One of the greats': Sir Vincent O'Sullivan dies
Poet Sir Vincent O'Sullivan died yesterday in Dunedin, his son has confirmed. He was 86. His son, Dominic O'Sullivan, announced the death on his Facebook page. "Hei aitua hoki, kua hinga toku matua," he wrote. "I am profoundly sad to share that my father, Emeritus Professor Sir Vincent O'Sullivan, died in Dunedin late yesterday. I was present with his wife Helen."In the next day or two, Vince will travel to the Home of Compassion in Island Bay, where he will repose ahead of his Requiem Mass later in the week at St Mary of the Angels, Wellington ..."
St John's marks 100 years as parish
Connections among all people were celebrated in Alexandra earlier this month as a local church marked 100 years as a parish. About 130 people joined together for Mass at St John the Baptist Church on Sunday, April 21, to celebrate the centenary of the Alexandra parish.
Churches Project keeps Whanganui Camera Club members busy
Whanganui Camera Club is well into its Churches Project, with over 20 churches in the district now photographed. It's quite a challenge - there are over 60 places of worship in the Whanganui area and the club hopes to include most of these, aiming to document the exteriors and the inside details of all of them
Fallen servicemen honoured with board (text and video)
St Peter's College has held its first dawn Anzac service and unveiled an honours board remembering former pupils who died while serving their country.
Maori land occupiers forced to leave beleaguered Auckland school
Protesters living at an old Maori Catholic boarding school have been ordered by the High Court to leave the school grounds. Descendants of the original landowners of Hato Petera, the last boarding school of its kind in Auckland, moved in after the college was shut down in August.
Learning art and science of flight
A group of Dunedin school pupils soared into term 2. Pupils from Trinity Catholic College and St Joseph's Cathedral School gathered at Robin Hood Park yesterday morning to get a view of Dunedin from a hot-air balloon ...
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SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (B) - FESTIVAL OF NEW LIFE SUNDAY
Today's Mass is celebrated by Father Vincent Barboza at the parish of the Holy Family, Timaru. It can be viewed at:
Sunday Mass is also broadcast on Shine TV (Freeview channel 25) at 2 pm and live streamed at:
https://www.shinetv.co.nz/videos/live (only viewable in New Zealand).
New Zealand Commentaries on the Readings for the Sundays of the Year:
Homily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, by Fr Anthony Trenwith (podcast):
Marist Laity NZ. Living The Word: http://livingtheword.org.nz/
6th Sunday of Easter Year B – Love One Another
Inspired Word: A video reading and commentary on the gospel of the day by John Teariki and Malia Vito-Tupai.
John 15:9-17 Jesus the real vine
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CRUX - Edited by John L. Allen Jr. and Inés San Martin
Pope to visit city of Romeo and Juliet with theme 'Justice and peace shall kiss'
In less than a month Pope Francis will make his second journey outside Rome of the year, visiting the Italian city of Verona, the setting of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," where he will participate in an event dedicated to promoting peace and meet with local clergy and youth ...
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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 ...
Hamilton: https://www.cdh.org.nz/jobs
Christchurch: https://cdoc.nz/news-events/news-categories/vacancies
Dunedin: https://www.cdd.nz/vacancies
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
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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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