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NEWS & NOTES - 7 June 2009 - The Holy Trinity
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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Catholics to receive pastoral letter on prayer (29 May 2009)
"In its various forms, prayer is at once praise and thanksgiving, an appeal for mercy and our hope in time of need". These words are from a pastoral letter written by the New Zealand Catholic bishops to help Catholics towards a new appreciation of the relevance and accessibility of holiness – a focus of the bishops’ Pastoral Priorities plan for 2008-2013. The letter has been distributed to parishes around the country this week to be given out in churches on Pentecost Sunday, which is when the gift of the Holy Spirit is celebrated. Bishop Barry Jones of the Christchurch diocese says the booklet is a "gentle reminder to busy people about how crucial it is to foster the habit of prayer, without which our love for God cannot flourish" ....
'Prayer in the Busyness of Life'
http://www.catholic.org.nz/statements/0905prayer.php
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'WEL-COM' - a newspaper for the dioceses of Wellington and Palmerston North
http://www.welcom.org.nz
News
Brutal revelations in voices of Israeli soldiers ... 'Peace will come' to the land of Christ's birth ... Book of letters hailed as unique historical source
World News
Columns
The Year of Paul: from mission to gospel living, by Kieran Fenn FMS ... Archbishop's column: World Youth Day a year on, by Archbishop John Dew ... Editorial: Raising questions of power, by Cecily McNeill
Schools
St Cath's new charity initiative ... Hutt school tops wearable arts ... Marist St Pat's takes the prized Swindale after eight tries
Features
From the Year of Paul to the Year of the Priest ... Living in the crossfire ... Book Review: The Franciscan Story
Wellington
Old hands steer pathway into a new era ... Newtown People's Market a regular ... June 20 marks the 160th anniversary of the opening of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
Palmerston North
Sharing the gospel using social context ... Prisoners share Lenten message of hope ... Southern Delights
Reflect: Trinity Sunday Year B, by Veronica Lawson RSM
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Learning leadership in the capital (photos)
The Motueka Golden Bay News, 04 Jun 2009. Page 3
http://tinyurl.com/ow9wgb
A judge's perspective on honesty and the impressive colossal squid were among the stand-out features of the Youth Leaders Conference for the students of Motueka's St Peter Chanel School.
School helps brothers
Hawkes Bay Today
http://www.hbtoday.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3798481&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=
An appeal fund has been established to support injured Dannevirke brothers Tarshaye and Rico Ryder, whose parents and sister died in a head-on crash during Queen's Birthday weekend. The appeal has been established by Dannevirke's St Joseph's School, where Tarshaye, 10, and his sister Monique, 9, were pupils.
Reporting scandal: Media coverage of abuse helps victims, church
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0902590.htm
Vatican City (CNS) -- The embarrassment and scandal raised by each new report of a case of sex abuse in the church also has a positive effect of giving other victims the courage to come forward and increasing the church's commitment to ending abuse, said experts meeting at the Vatican. The Anglophone Conference, which began in the 1990s as an informal network of English-speaking bishops meeting to share strategies for fighting abuse, held its 10th formal meeting at the Vatican June 1-5.
God Walks with Today’s Refugees
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0906/S00055.htm
Caritas Aotearoa's resources prepared for the Day of Prayer for Refugees and Migrants (June 21) remind us that God has always walked alongside refugees and continues to do so today.
Poet shines new light on Baxter's Jerusalem (photo)
A review of of 'The Double Rainbow:James K. Baxter, Ngati Hau and the Jerusalem Commune', by John Newton
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10576205
Budget 2009: how will the poorest fare?
http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/06/03/budget-2009-how-will-the-poorest-fare/
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has both reservations and relief over the government's 2009 Budget.
Support Jean-Luc and friends
The Daily Post (Rotorua) — A004 — 06 June 2009
Even though the original movie took the world by storm in 1977, Star Wars still captures the imagination of Rotorua 6-year-old Jean-Luc Woollacott. The St Mary's Catholic School student is autistic and his family is one of 493 supported by Autism New Zealand's Bay of Plenty branch, which is holding its annual appeal week.
School bank on patience
Hawkes Bay Today — A011 — 05 June 2009
Success is built on patience and oodles of investment in the young. That's exactly what Sacred Heart College sports co-ordinator Robyn Hocking is banking on with her Napier college netball teams after the high school hosted the annual Mission Cup tournament last weekend.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV - http://inspirationaltv.net
** Work Purpose **
Rebels for God: A member of Opus Dei explains its special character.
** Three in One **
A reading and discussion of Matthew 28:16-20 with Kyle Macdonald and Rev. Jenny Wilkins at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington.
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'BEING FRANK' - http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
New Zealand Catholic Blogs. Some current topics ...
Peace Be With You (peace of heart) ... "Stop it! Stop it! Can’t you see this barnyard noise guessing game is tearing us apart?" (on predictions of cataclysmic events) ... Who murders the mass murderers? (on the murder of Dr Tiller) ... Those little eyes (on seeing a street child in Senegal) ... I no understand (standig up for kneeling down)
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
'Remarkable congruence' between pope and president on Islam
If anyone is still puzzled about why the Vatican sat out the fuss over President Barack Obama's appearance at Notre Dame -- and more generally, why the Vatican has refused to allow its relationship with Obama to be defined by obvious differences over abortion -- the president's speech to the Muslim world yesterday in Cairo should go a long way toward clearing things up...
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EVENTS
'Be the Change': NZ Catholic Education Convention
29 - 31 July Wellington Convention Centre
Full details and registration: http://www.conference.co.nz/cathed09
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
[Vacancies for Catholic youth workers are advertised on the Vacancies page of Connect.org.nz: http://www.connect.org.nz ]
