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Dear Readers,

This is the best I can do today, due to a heavy cold. Back to normal next week.

Cheers and God bless,
Mike Leon


FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

Hip Hop Brotherhood (photo)
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/29xrpha
Lower Hutt's St Bernard's College is a rugby and league kind of school, but a crew from the college won the regional hip-hop competition on August 8.

An election win for MacKillop (photo)
http://north-shore-times.whereilive.com.au/news/story/an-election-win-for-mackillop/
It's the providence of God that it's an election year, Sisters of St Joseph say. With Mary MacKillop's costly canonisation looming in October, it came as a blessing when Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott both pledged $1.5 million to the sisters during the election campaign.

Environmental passion takes teens to Japan
The Dominion Post
http://tinyurl.com/24bq96x
Two Wellington teenagers have pipped more than 60 other Kiwis for the chance to travel to Japan on a youth exchange programme. Jeremy Kelly, 17, of Bishop Viard College, and Jill Campbell, 16, of Wellington Girls' College, are among 75 successful pupils from East-Asian, Australian and New Zealand high schools.

High school rolls in city overflowing
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch/4026713/High-school-rolls-in-city-overflowing
Half of Christchurch's state secondary schools are bursting at the seams, an internal Ministry of Education report shows. Of the city's 28 secondary schools, 14, including four state-integrated schools, are oversubscribed.

Interviews with members of the Board of Trustees of St Joseph's School, Queenstown

Promoting a balanced approach (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queenstown/121675/promoting-balanced-approach
St Joseph's School board of trustees parent representative James Lynch tells James Beech that the Government's efforts to implement National Standards means it will have to provide more support and funding for schools.

Teaching family values important (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queenstown/121264/teaching-family-values-important
The proposed Speargrass Flat Rd campus would allow for the growth of Catholic education in the Arrowtown area, St Joseph's School board of trustees proprietor's representative Fr Tony Harrison tells James Beech.

Aim to build on natural learning tendencies (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-lakes/120811/aim-build-natural-learning-tendencies
St Joseph's School board of trustees parent representative Pauline Copland is concerned science, technology and the arts will have less focus in the future of national education.

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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs

http://www.beingfrank.co.nz

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INSPIRATIONAL TV

http://inspirationaltv.net/inspired-word/

'Not Anticipating' - Luke 13:22-30

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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS

Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm http://livingtheword.org.nz

Reflect - Veronica Lawson rsm http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394

Daily Reflections (right-hand column) http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz

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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.

http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic

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FACEBOOK

Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick

Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz

'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15

Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Youth-For-Family-and-Life-CFC-YFL/113115662062621

SMNZ Marists - the Society of Mary in New Zealand
http://www.facebook.com/Marists

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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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EMPLOYMENT

[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]

Principal Organist and Deputy Director of Music, St Mary of the Angels, Wellington
http://www.stmaryoftheangels.wellington.net.nz
Details from the Parish Secretary, St Mary of the Angels, 17 Boulcott Street, Wellington

Senior Catholic Prison Chaplain
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no. 347 August 15-28 2010 p.23, and from Anne Dickinson, NZCBC Office, PO Box 1937, Wellington; tel. (04) 496 1747; e-mail: adickinson@nzcbc.org.nz Applications close 26 August 2010

Prison Chaplain, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch
http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=1203
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no. 347 August 15-28 2010 p.23, and from Donna Malone, Cathedral House, Christchurch. tel: (03) 366 9869; e-mail: dmalone@chch.catholic.org.nz Applications close 30 August 2010.