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The Most Holy Trinity
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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Students and staff safe after college fire (full text) (27 May 2010)
Early this morning there was a fire in a Hato Paora College dormitory. No staff or students were harmed. The fire began at about 4.50am. Students evacuated, going to the college's gymnasium until 7am. It appears the fire was caused by a water cylinder exploding. While the damage is extensive, it is contained to one dormitory.
Acting Principal Debi Marshall-Lobb is pleased with how the students responded to the fire and grateful to the staff for their assistance. "I will be eternally grateful that all students and staff are safe. Buildings can be replaced but people can't," she says.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Immigration Changes Welcomed
http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/immigration-changes-welcomed/5/50304
New Zealand Christian Network (visionnetwork) welcomes changes to the Immigration Act that will allow churches to sponsor pastors from overseas who come to take up pastorates in New Zealand.
The Man in the middle (photo)
Sunday Star Times
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/3752691/The-man-in-the-middle
Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson now faces the greatest test of his career, folowing National's bust-up with Tuhoe and with a battle looming over the foreshore and seabed.
Feisty French nun sets up Catholic school (photo)
Taranaki Daily News
http://tinyurl.com/29tu2sk
''New Plymouth is giving us more trouble than we ever expected but never mind with God's help, we'll win in the end ... our Sisters are with us in spirit ... thank God that our trials keep us united.'' Sister Euphrasie Barbier supposedly said that about establishing New Plymouth's Foundation of the Sacred Heart. Her best-known quote, though, was in describing the new institution as her ''cross of crosses''. Getting established in the town had been far from easy.
'Love can wait to give,' says chastity advocate (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/3750842/Love-can-wait-to-give-says-chastity-advocate
Abstinence is not a Victorian idea, it is an exercise in self-control and respect says Jason Evert, an American chastity advocate on a week-long tour around New Zealand.
Catholic Marriage Educators Explore The Look Of Love
http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/catholic-marriage-educators-explore-look-love/5/49615
Over two hundred Catholic marriage educators will gather at the Brentwood Hotel in Wellington May 28-30 to hear cutting edge research and dynamic presentations on relationship education.
Parents and pupils make final plea to save school
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/education/news/article.cfm?c_id=35&objectid=10647952
Parents and students of Monte Cecilia School in Hillsborough have made one final plea to Auckland City councillors to save their school.
'Conflict of interest'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/3735719/Conflict-of-interest
Monte Cecilia Primary School supporters want Auckland City Council's deputy mayor to pull out of purchasing talks with the Catholic Diocese of Auckland.
Pioneering church's history recalled (photo)
http://www.times.co.nz/cms/front_page_feature/2010/05/printer_pioneering_churchs_history_recalled.php
Many fascinating and little-known insights into a church's long and colourful history are highlighted in a new book. Mike and Helen Hammond trace the story from 1847 to 2010 of Howick's Catholic Parish of Our Lady Star of the Sea in 'Footsteps of Faith'.
Celebratory Mass (photo)
North Taranaki Midweek
http://tinyurl.com/335m5cm
More than 600 children from five schools around New Plymouth celebrated Catholic Schools' Day last week.
Schools to pray for sick, elderly (photo)
Cambridge Edition
http://tinyurl.com/3667738
Students from St Peter's Catholic School released balloons from the town hall last week to mark Catholic Schools' Day.
No injuries after fire gutted dormitory
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/7301494/no-injuries-after-fire-gutted-dormitory/
A dormitory at Hato Paora College in the Manawatu was gutted by fire this morning.
Church looks out for a thief (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/western-leader/3741552/Church-looks-out-for-a-thief
Who'd steal from a church? Father Bernard Dennehy from the Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Glen Eden is keen to find out.
Naturally gifted teacher inspired young minds (photo)
Southland Times
http://tinyurl.com/38dcuu8
Scholar, teacher and father - the death last month of Mark Febery, head of social studies at St Peter's College, Gore, for a remarkable 33 years, left a school and community sadder but rich with memories of a man who inspired so many young minds.
Pioneering church's history recalled (photos)
http://www.times.co.nz/cms/news/2010/05/printer_pioneering_churchs_history_recalled.php
Many fascinating and little-known insights into a church's long and colourful history are highlighted in a new book. Mike and Helen Hammond trace the story from 1847 to 2010 of Howick's Catholic Parish of Our Lady Star of the Sea in 'Footsteps of Faith'.
Crowds outside lakeside church for anniversary (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/3y7y28z
Tekapo's Church of the Good Shepherd overflowed with visitors celebrating its 75th anniversary on Saturday.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Sister Act **
A visit to the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions (RNDM), Petone, where a new generation of sisters from Asia is being welcomed into the community.
** Finding Truth **
John 16: 12-15 : a reading and discussion with Sr Stephanie Kitching and Simon McLellan.
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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PODCASTS
** Sounds Catholic **
http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=2185
Programme 8 Pentecost Sunday: Sunday 23rd May 2010
David O'Neill interviews young school children about their understanding of Pentecost.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** "In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act" (listening to Jason Evert)
** "Homer? Who is Homer? My name is Guy Incognito." ('Being Frank' and anonymous blogging)
** Wax on, wax off. (on balance)
** Being Frank for the first time (introducing a new blogger)
** Earth to Mike, Earth to Mike, come in Mike (demanding accountability)
** Pause. Rewind. (lives on tape: looking forward to looking back)
** Struggle (sin and the Church)
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MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS
Marist Messenger - May 2010
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
NZ Catholic Education Office. 'Lighting New Fires'. May 2010
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resourcesubpages/lighting-new-fires.html
Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform'. March 2010
http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25
The Nathaniel Centre. The NZ Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report'. Issue Thirty. 30 April 2010
http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/?sid=218
Tui Motu InterIslands. May 2010
http://www.tuimotu.org
St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East'. May 2010
http://www.columban.org.au/publications/the-far-east/index/
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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
A great Catholic renaissance in Ukraine may be at risk
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/great-catholic-renaissance-ukraine-may-be-risk
On any countdown of terrific Catholic stories over the last twenty years, the renaissance of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine would have to be near the top of the list. Numbering some five million faithful, about ten percent of the Ukrainian population, Greek Catholics follow Orthodox liturgical and spiritual traditions but have been in full union with Rome since the 16th century.
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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
Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealand/292888828797
SMNZ Marists - the Society of Mary in New Zealand
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Auckland-New-Zealand/SMNZ-Marists/80022416689?v=wall
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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 ]
GIFT Centre, Balmoral - http://www.giftcentre.org.nz
Residential Caregiver (Houseparent) - 6 month fixed term contract. Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 23 - June 5 2010 p.23, and from Brian Nicholas, GIFT Centre, 28A Telford Avenue, Balmoral. Tel: 620-9254; Fax: 620 9250; Email: giftcentre@xtra.co.nz
