Sunday, June 11, 2000

Dear 'kiwicatholics',

ON TV
Just another reminder that the Mass is broadcast on Prime TV at 11.30 am on Sunday mornings. Prime's broadcast frequencies are on: http://www.primetv.co.nz/transmission/transmission.html

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

Unusually, there were no significant Jubilee-related events in the past week so I didn't update the Jubilee page. The most recent reports are about the Jubilees of Migrants and Travellers, and of Journalists (June 1-4) .

For the rest of this month the Jubilee events are centred on the 47th International Eucharistic Congress (18-25 June) and the major feast days: Pentecost (being celebrated as I type); the Holy Trinity (next Sunday); the Body and blood of Christ (Corpus Christi - Thursday 22 June in Rome, Sunday 25 June in NZ); Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles (Thursday 29 June).

I will continue to update the Jubilee News page at least weekly as often as there are significant reports to link to.

NATIONAL CATHOLIC DIRECTORY 2000
http://www.catholic.org/newzealand/cathcom/directory/frdirectory.html

I have finished updating the "Seminaries and Formation Houses" section. The page link is: http://www.catholic.org/newzealand/cathcom/directory/direct4.html

CATHOLIC PRESS - 'WEL-COM' - June 2000

From the monthly newspaper of the Wellington and Palmerston dioceses: http://www.catholic.org/newzealand/cathcom/press/welcom/front.html

'Nelson celebrates its 150th Jubilee ' Nelson's Catholics stepped out along their city's streets on Sunday 14 May in a strong public show of faith. Hundreds walked from St Mary's Church in Manuka Street, the site of Nelson's first Catholic church, to the Trafalgar Centre where they joined more than a thousand for Mass ... [Photo. Link to St Joseph's School, Nelson]

'Catholic Schools' Day - 17 May 2000' The country's two hundred and forty Catholic schools marked 17 May as their special Great Jubilee/ Millennium Year celebration. There are 58,000 students in Catholic schools nationwide. They make up 80% of the numbers of students in Integrated schools. Internationally, 44 million young people attend Catholic schools ... [Photos. Links to several schools' Web sites and the NZ Catholic Education Office's page for the Catholic Schools' Convention in September 2000. The Convention page will shortly be updated and expanded.]

'Recognition is well-deserved ' The top honour in the Queen's Birthday Honours List announced last weekend went to Cardinal Tom Williams. Only twenty living people can carry the Order of New Zealand at any one time, so this is a singular honour and one that the Cardinal richly deserves ... [Photo. Links to ... Cardinal Williams' biography .... Archdiocese of Wellington home page ... information about the Order of New Zealand]

Every best wish and all God's blessings,
Mike Leon
'kiwicatholic' list manager