Sunday, April 30, 2000

Dear 'kiwicatholics'

A warm welcome to our several new list members, taking our number to 62 'kiwicatholics', of whom about 43 have .nz e-mail addresses.

Special thanks to Anthony Trenwith and Jonathan Godfrey for their first-hand accounts of the Easter Tri-Series assembly for young adult Catholics.

If you have been to the Wellington Archdiocesan jubilee celebrations this weekend, please write us a few lines about your impressions.

Mike Leon
'kiwicatholic' list manager

JUBILEE NEWS & EVENTS
http://www.catholic.org/newzealand/cathcom/jubilee/news.html

This page is updated with fresh links to text, audio and video reports at least twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I have cleared it of all but three of the Easter celebrations' links which are now down in the Previous Events section.

May the first - May Day - will be interesting: the Vatican is hosting a Jubilee concert for workers starring Lou Reed, Alanis Morissette and the Eurythmics. And at the Coliseum on Martyrs' Day, 7 May, Pope John Paul II will pay tribute to thousands of 20th-century Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant martyrs for the faith.


TUI MOTU INTER ISLANDS - APRIL 2000
http://www.catholic.org/newzealand/tuimotu

'2000 years from what? ' (Editorial)
A summary of recent magazine articles about Jesus' influence on the last twenty centuries and especially today. "The Jubilee challenge is this. How do we in the Christian churches make the clarion call "Alleluia, Christ is Risen" so attractive and penetrating that the people of our time will listen and respond?"

'So who really was there - at the Last Supper? '
Sister Pauline O’Regan reflects on the different messages conveyed by three paintings of the Last Supper: Leonardo da Vinci's (15th century), Jacopo Tintoretto's (16th century) and Bohdan Piasecki's (1998). All three paintings are illustrated.

'A Passionate Man: Johann Sebastian Bach' "
Bach’s great choral works draw us into the text – never more so than in his Passion music. And it reflects his own deep spirituality" suggests retired Otago University Professor of English Colin Gibson. Picture. Link to the J.S. Bach home page