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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
https://www.catholic.org.nz/news/media-releases/
Website goes live for Catholic Church's Te Ara a Maria celebration (27 Jul 2021)
https://www.catholic.org.nz/news/media-releases/tearaamaria-celebration/
In January 1838 Bishop Pompallier, Aotearoa New Zealand's first
bishop, dedicated New Zealand to Our Lady Assumed into Heaven. On this
year's Solemnity of the Assumption, on the 15th of August, the New
Zealand Catholic community is going to renew that dedication following
the numerous requests the bishops received during the lockdown asking
for Mary's protection of Aotearoa New Zealand in such troubling
international times ...
NZCBC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CatholicNZ/
** Our bishops will be joining together on Sunday 15 August -- the
Feast of the Assumption -- to renew the 1838 dedication of the country
to Mary. Check out the new Te Ara a Maria website
** Every parish will take part in the Sunday 15 August rededication of
Aotearoa NZ to Our Lady Assumed into Heaven, but everyone is also
invited to the special Mass at St Mary of the Angels in Wellington,
whether you are in Wellington or beyond. Space will be limited
however!
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
Website: https://nzcatholic.org.nz/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NZCatholic/
Full text articles: https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2021/
In issue no. 619, July 25-August 7 2021: From Sydney World Youth Day
to ordination (Fr Isaac Fransen) ... De Paul House runs 12-unit Kainga
Ora property ... Religious schools praised in feature ... Neil Broom:
God versus gods: a timeless message from Genesis ... Editorial: Sign
of Peace ... Maria Neville-Foster: Teaching our children forgiveness
without limits ... FSSP reacts to papal letter ... Bishop Peter
Cullinane: Devotion is commendable, but liturgy is much more than a
devotion ... Mina Amso: How to get a date worth keeping ... Rosary in
many tongues prayed for years in Dunedin.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Abuse in care: 'It felt wrong, but when you are a kid it's just a shock'
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/07/abuse-in-care-it-felt-wrong-but-when-you-are-a-kid-it-s-just-a-shock.html
A man who was abused by a Catholic priest at school in the 1990s says
it came as a real shock to him. Rupene Amato, who was born in 1972,
has given evidence to the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care's
Pacific inquiry.
Mass choirs
The Timaru Herald 28 Jul 2021
https://pressreader-com.wcl.idm.oclc.org/article/281543703957007
Full text: Twenty South Canterbury Catholic school students will be
among 600 from the Canterbury Catholic Diocese participating in a
day-long celebration of church music at the Christchurch Town Hall on
August 6. There will be a lunchtime Mass, an organ recital and the
Jubilate.
Obituary: Philip Sherry brought gravitas and authority to the news
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/125878336/obituary-philip-sherry-brought-gravitas-and-authority-to-the-news
When Philip Sherry read his last bulletin on TV3 in 1990, he was the
same formal, coolly detached broadcaster viewers had first seen on
what was then WNTV-1 – the fledgling channel that served the lower
North Island – in 1962. He was one of a generation of broadcasters
still fondly remembered from a time when television was such a novelty
that people gathered on footpaths outside home appliance businesses
that kept TV sets running in their shop windows ...
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOLS
Caritas announces winners of 2021 SINGout4JUSTICE song writing competition
https://caritas.org.nz/newsroom/media-releases/caritas-announces-winners-2021-singout4justice-song-writing-competition
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, the Bishops' agency for justice, peace
and development, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021
SINGout4JUSTICE song writing competition ...
Erika Fairweather's schoolmates burst with pride at teenager's Tokyo
Olympics feats
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/125865645/erika-fairweathers-schoolmates-burst-with-pride-at-teenagers-tokyo-olympics-feats
There was no medal for 17-year-old Kiwi swimmer Erika Fairweather in
Tokyo on Monday, but 10,000 kilometres away at her Dunedin school the
pride levels went through the roof. Hundreds of her schoolmates
gathered for a special assembly at Kavanagh College in Dunedin 2.20pm,
when Fairweather jumped off the blocks in the Olympic women's 400m
freestyle final.
Also: Fairweather gets mass support from schoolmates
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/fairweather-gets-mass-support-schoolmates
St Patrick's School centenary: Celebrating 100 years of Catholic
education in Te Awamutu
https://www.teawamutu.nz/courier/archive/2021/2021-07-29.pdf
Labour weekend, October 22-23, will see the centenary of St Patrick's
Catholic School Te Awamutu. St Patrick's Catholic School is a state
integrated school of 290 students situated in Te Awamutu in the heart
of the Waipa¯ district ...
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EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (B)
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The Mass of the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, celebrated by
Father Chris Denham at the Cathedral of St Patrick and St Joseph is
broadcast on Auckland Diocese's YouTube channel at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cZU-Z8LlhY
and on Shine TV (Freeview channel 25) at 2 pm and live streamed at:
https://www.shinetv.co.nz/videos/live (only viewable in New Zealand).
Inspired Word: A video reading and commentary on the gospel of the day
by Very Rev. Frank Nelson and Rev. Jenny Wilkens at St Paul's
Cathedral, Wellington.
John 6:24-35 Jesus the bread of life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxCDr8DrQg&list=PLeDNiKpHSQBDAIAYJEHi42R7ctvsFuTEU&index=8
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Other New Zealand Commentaries on the Sunday Readings:
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Fr Kevin Waldie SM. Sunday Reflection:
https://nzcatholic.org.nz/category/sunday-reflection/
Sunday homilies of Fr Anthony Trenwith (audio):
http://station15.co.nz/
Marist Messenger. Daily Reflections: https://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/
Fr Frank Bird sm. Living the Word: Sundays of the Year: Discussion
Guide - https://livingtheword.org.nz/
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CRUX - Edited by John L. Allen Jr. and Inés San Martin
https://cruxnow.com/
While space tourism needs regulations, a Vatican astronomer is ready to go
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2021/07/while-space-tourism-needs-regulations-a-vatican-astronomer-is-ready-to-go/
With private companies planning to expand their offerings in orbital
and suborbital space tourism and more and more civilians already
shooting into space, one Jesuit astronomer said if he were ever
offered the possibility, he would go. "I know enough to never say no
to an opportunity," U.S. Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, a planetary
astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory, told Vatican News
July 29.
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EMPLOYMENT
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Deputy Executive Officer, New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference, Wellington
https://www.catholic.org.nz/news/media-releases/nzcbc-deputyeo/
Applications close 9 August 2021.
Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised on
the Website of the Education Gazette:
https://gazette.education.govt.nz/vacancies/?Keywords=catholic#results
Vacancies in the Catholic Volunteers Overseas programme:
https://www.caritas.org.nz/get-involved/catholic-volunteers-overseas
Job vacancies in the Catholic diocese of Auckland:
https://www.aucklandcatholic.org.nz/administration/staff-vacancies/
... and in the Archdiocese of Wellington:
https://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/adw_community/vacancies/
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
https://www.catholic.org.nz/
The six dioceses:
https://www.catholic.org.nz/find-us/dioceses-2/#section_59
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New Zealand Catholic
Periodicals & Newsletters
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'NZ Catholic' is a national newspaper published by the Catholic Bishop
of Auckland. https://nzcatholic.org.nz/
Catholic Diocese of Hamilton. 'Kete Korero'.
https://www.cdh.org.nz/kete-korero/
Catholic Dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington. 'Wel-com'
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/welcom/
Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform'
https://chchcatholic.nz/?sid=25 (Latest news - Latest Inform)
Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. Pastoral Newsletter
https://www.cdd.org.nz/
The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The
Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/
NZ Catholic Education Office. 'Lighting New Fires'
https://nzceo.schoolzineplus.com/nzceo/archive
St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East'
https://www.columban.org.au/media-and-publications/the-far-east-magazine/archive/
Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger'
https://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
Society of Saint Vincent de Paul NZ. News in Brief:
https://bit.ly/2EFXF82
'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine.
https://tuimotu.org/
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