EASTER RESOURCES
'Doing as Jesus Commands' http://www.ake.quik.co.nz/termon/Commentaries, liturgy resources and further reading for Holy Week.
'The Text This Week' http://www.textweek.com/holyweek.htm Comprehensive Lent and Easter links .... Ideas and Liturgies for Holy Week ... Easter Art and Music ... Stations of the Cross
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
'Camping under cardboard for charity ' (photo) Otago Daily Times 21 March 2002 http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/search-display-story-online-new?date=21Mar2002&obje\ ct=FKJ39J3656ES&type=html&WORDS=catholic&DB=Editorial While the rest of Dunedin slept in their beds, Kavanagh College pupil leaders huddled inside cardboard boxes wrapped in blankets last night... Yesterday was Solidarity Day and every Catholic primary and secondary school in the country was "doing something for others", teacher Jo Stanley said....
'Oldest sister on the school block' (photo, and related video report) TVNZ Mar 22, 2002 http://onenews.nzoom.com/news_detail/0,1227,89237-1-5,00.html Teachers are usually known for their good memories but the memory of one teacher in Christchurch goes back a lot longer than any other in the country. Sister Basil has just celebrated her 90th birthday, but she's still giving students the benefit of her years....
'The Galileo Project ' Auckland University Press Release 20 March 2002 http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/5b/93/200203201019.b048570b.html The Galileo Project is a programme of arts events presented by The University of Auckland, celebrating the life and work of the great Renaissance scientist, mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei. The centrepiece of the project is the opera "Galileo" ... [depicting] Galileo's contention with the accepted view of the laws of physics and the natural cosmos, in particular his observation that the earth revolved around the sun, not vice versa. This discovery led him into conflict with the Catholic Church .... ***************************** [Since the contention by Galileo (1564-1642) that the earth goes round the sun and not vice versa appeared to contradict the Bible ("... the sun stood still ..." Joshua 10:13), he reached an agreement with the Church's censors to publish his view as a theory only, but instead presented it as a proven fact. As a punishment he was compelled to repudiate his book and agree not to write anything else on the subject. He turned his attention to the science of dynamics and statics and in 1636 published 'Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences' which laid the basis for modern physics. Galileo died at the age of 78 and was buried in Florence in the Church of Santa Croce, next to Michaelangelo and Machiavelli.
[In 1994 the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences presented Pope John Paul with a report he had commissioned on the Galileo Controversy. To mark the occasion the Pope gave an address on the roles that faith and science fulfil in human life (1) in which he quoted Pope Leo XIII: "Truth cannot contradict truth, and we may be sure that some mistake has been made either in the interpretation of the sacred words, or in the polemical discussion itself"]
(1) http://www.its.caltech.edu/~newman/sci-cp/sci-9211.html
NEW AND REFURBISHED WEB SITES
[These Websites illustrate a principle which I wish all our Catholic Web site owners would take to heart: technical matters are best left to technicians. In each of the following Websites the content has been supplied by the site owners - the parish, school or religious order - to local firms of professional Web designers who have turned out smart-looking pages comparable in quality to any of their type, for fees which (it's safe to assume) don't strain the limited budgets of the typical parish, school or order. ML]
St Joseph's Catholic Parish, Hawera http://www.stjoshw.co.nz
St Alban's Catholic School, Christchurch http://www.stalbanscatholic.school.nz
Sisters of Mercy, New Zealand http://www.mercyworld.org/nz
CATHOLICTV.NET http://www.catholictv.net (Produced by the Wellington Archdiocesan Media Office)
This week's interview: Fr Gerry Whiteford sm on icons as inspiration and art
(The Catholictv.net team are working hard to solve the present technical difficulties which prevent all or part of the videos from being viewed in some browsers and computers.)
NEWSLETTERS
(Many thanks to the volunteer monitors who supplied these summaries)
NZ Catholic Education Office. "Lighting New Fires" Issue No.7 December 2001 http://catholic.org.nz/nzceo/lnf7.htm Summary: Education Review Office and Ministry of Education to share Information and work programmes ... More efficient system for teachers on transfer ... National nutrition survey ... Effective leadership for new and future principals .... Ministry of education contents and liability insurance ... Progress on technology ... International Years : United Nations has proclaimed the following : 2002 International Year of Ecotourism, International Year of Mountains; 2000-2010 Decade of a Culture of Peace.
Marist Champagnat Family Newsletter December 2001 http://catholic.org.nz/fms/page%2013.html Summary: "At the XXth General Chapter of the Marist Brothers in Rome there were 118 delegates representing all the Provinces of the world of our Brothers. The purpose of a Chapter, held every eight years, is to review the impact of our lives as Brothers and to set out new challenges for us. The time of Chapter is an extraordinary period of grace in the life of an Institute. It marks the beginning of another journey which gets underway in earnest once the last delegate leaves with the Chapter message to share with all those Brothers back in his Province. A new Superior General and General Council was also elected. Brother Sean Sammon (54) is our newly elected leader. Sean was born in Manhattan, educated as a clinical psychologist, and has been the Vicar General for the past eight years. Sean is no stranger to us for he has visited New Zealand many times and led conferences for local Diocesan priests...."
Lifemaze No 4 Summer 2001 http://catholic.org.nz/fms/page%2059.html The Newsletter of the Marist Brothers' young adults' ministry. It includes this poem by Mother Teresa:
HOW TO LIVE Life is an opportunity, take it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is beatitude, taste it. Life is a dream, make it reality. Life is a challenge, embrace it. Life is a duty, fulfil it. Life is a play, play it. Life is precious, take care of it. Life is riches, keep them. Life is love, enjoy it. Life is a mystery, discover it. Life is a promise, keep it. Life is sadness, overcome it. Life is a hymn, sing it. Life is a fight, accept it. Life is an adventure, take the risk. Life is happiness, merit it. Life is life, defend it. May life be a future of hope for You and your loved ones.
EVENTS
April 4-7, 2002 Mariapolis 2002, Feilding Agricultural High School, North Street, Feilding. The annual national gathering of members and friends of the Focolare Movement in New Zealand. Further info. from Atle Lee, 40 Thompson St., PO Box 11826 Wellington 6034 Tel: 04-384 4559 Fax: 04-384 4348 E-mail: focolare@paradise.net.nz ; and from http://www.focolare.org.au
April 5-7, 2002 Eucharistic Convention, Auckland Showgrounds, 217 Greenlane West. Epsom, Auckland Full details at: http://eucharistic-convention.com or from: Eucharistic Convention, PO Box 4523, Auckland.
April 19-21 2002 Catholic Network of Marriage Educators Conference, Napier Details from Oncall Conference Management, 20 Cambridge Terrace, Taradale, Napier. Tel: 06 844 9956 e-mail: c-moore@clear.net.nz
EMPLOYMENT
(Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies )
Researcher-Writer, Caritas Aotearoa-NZ Eleven-week contract, beginning on Tuesday 2 April, to research and write a booklet on refugees in the light of Catholic Social Teaching. Previous booklets in the series are described here: http://www.caritas.org.nz/publications/SJS_info.htm Further details in 'Wel-com' newspaper March 2002 p.19 and from louise@caritas.org.nz Applications close Friday 22 March.
Catholic Social Services, Dunedin. Diocesan Outreach Facilitator To develop a Catholic social support network across the Otago-southland diocese. Further details in 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 24 March 2002 and from CSS Board of Directors, PO Box 263, dunedin. Applications close Friday 12 April.
