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Dear readers,
Happy Christmas everyone.
Kiwicath News & Notes will now take a break for a couple of weeks. I'll start again in the new year when there is something to report.
God bless.
Mike Leon
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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
NZCBC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CatholicNZ/
** The latest issue of 'NZ Catholic' is available online
** From Colin MacLeod, chair, NZ Catholic Bishops' Committee for Interfaith Relations: "Attached is a lovely letter from the Buddhist Council of NZ wishing us all the very best for Christmas ..."
** The artwork tour, Te Hikoi Wairua mo Te Ara a Maria, has begun in the Auckland Diocese. Ka pai!
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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/
The full text of 'NZ Catholic' No. 628 December 26 - January 30, 2021 is online at:
In this issue: 'A cause for celebration', a Christmas reflection by Bishop Patrick Dunn ... Bishop Lowe appointed as Bishop of Auckland ... Otago church closed after more than 100 years (St Patrick's, Lawrence) ... Learning about the saint behind the Santa Claus legend ... Editorial: Reflecting on cribs at Christmas ... New Zealand Year in Review (photo feature) ... Catholic support for Matariki as a public holiday ... No Christmas Masses at St Patrick's Cathedral this year ... Top Scholars 2021 ... Helen Luxford: The pandemic as seen by the future generation ... Hearts Aflame snuffed out by Covid.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS.
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Christmas 2021
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Honouring human dignity
A Christmas message from the Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev Michael Dooley.
2021 Ecumenical Christmas Church Service from St Anne's Catholic Church Wellington (audio, and full text with illustrations)
This ecumenical service brings together ministers and laypeople from Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Catholic, and Quaker denominations to celebrate Christmas. Music and words in English, te reo Maori, Niuean, Tongan and Fijian mark the cross-cultural nature of the event.
It's a very different Christmas day for many church-goers across Auckland (full text)
Auckland's Catholic Diocese says it has just under 200-thousand members across 68 parishes, from Thames-Coromandel to Northland. Sadly very few of them can operate today, under the red setting of the covid traffic light system. Spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer says the limit of 100 vaccinated people in one place makes it difficult to gather for worship. She says the cathedral in the heart of Auckland has up to eight-thousand people for Christmas mass, and her own parish has 16-hundred.
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOLS
Timaru pupil wins Canterbury science fair award
https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/127298224/timaru-pupil-wins-canterbury-science-fair-award
A Timaru pupil has scooped the Canterbury-wide Wrybill Trophy for a science project on preventing water evaporation and algae in irrigation ponds. St Joseph's Year 7 pupil Daniel Heffernan, 11, won the Timaru Sanford Science and Technology Fair Environment Canterbury Resource Management Award before his entry went on to win the overall prize for Canterbury ...
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CHRISTMAS DAY 2021
THE HOLY FAMILY
The Mass of Christmas Day 2021 , which was celebrated by Monsignor Bernard Kiely in the Mercy Chapel at St Mary's College, Ponsonby, Auckland can be viewed on Auckland Diocese's YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErWJvtL75MA
The Mass for today, the Feast of the Holy Family, is celebrated by Monsignor Kiely in the warehouse of the St Vincent de Paul Society, Onehunga, Auckland at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59-rY-uInwM
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 Christmas gospel by Sister Stephanie Kitching.
Matthew 1:18-24 The ancestors of Jesus Christ
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Other New Zealand Commentaries on the Sunday Readings:
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Fr Kevin Waldie SM. Sunday Reflection:
Sunday homilies of Fr Anthony Trenwith (audio):
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
On a Covid-scarred Christmas, Pope calls dialogue and encounter the way out
As the world continues to navigate the disruptions of the coronavirus pandemic and its variants, Pope Francis, on Christmas day, touted dialogue and encounter as the way out, while also praying for world peace and an end to global conflicts. He prayed for those infected with COVID-19 and for secondary victims, including women facing domestic violence, children who are bullied, families who are struggling, and elderly people who are isolated and alone ...
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EMPLOYMENT
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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:
Job vacancies in the Catholic diocese of Auckland: https://www.aucklandcatholic.org.nz/staff-vacancies/
... and in the Archdiocese of Wellington:
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
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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'.
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
The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/
NZ Catholic Education Office. 'Lighting New Fires'
St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East'
Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger'
Society of Saint Vincent de Paul NZ. News in Brief:
'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine.
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NZ Catholic Bishops' Conference
Catholic Discovery NZ (Catholic Enquiry Centre)
'NZ Catholic' newspaper
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand
Holy Cross Seminary
Marist Seminary, Auckland NZ
Society of St Vincent de Paul NZ
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News of the Church
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