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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
https://www.catholic.org.nz/news/media-releases/
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2022 resources now ready (22 April 2022)
https://www.catholic.org.nz/news/media-releases/wopfcu2022/
The resources for this year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity are now available. The Week is celebrated in Aotearoa New Zealand between Ascension and Pentecost Sundays each year, so 29 May to 5 June this year ...
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
Website: https://nzcatholic.org.nz/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NZCatholic/
Full text articles: https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2022/
The full text of 'NZ Catholic' April 24 - May 7, 2022 No. 63 is online at:
https://www.catholic.org.nz/assets/NZ-Catholic_Issue-635_April-24-2022.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0y3_cAl5d6JpGpBtFfK0au_WeEvw1UWbvEcBpYOdlrQsZJFkRipMVj6jo
In this issue: Hospices facing funding challenges ... Auckland's Marist Seminary faces repair job ... Aubert's path to sainthood delayed by Vatican 'no miracle' ruling ... Encounter with Marists led to vocation journey ... Legion of Mary ceremonies held in Auckland ... Survey shows softening attitude on blasphemy ... Guest Editorial by Bishop Emeritus John Mackey in 1997: Most important Christian feast ... Call for Church to be community of peacemakers ... More Catholic military chaplains wanted ... Caritas event to support Holy Land school ... Royal commission faith inquiry broadened
... Helen Luxford: Should we take kids to funerals? ... Cheryl working for parish renewal.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS.
Head of the Catholic Church reflects on importance of Easter Sunday (audio interview)
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/real-life/audio/cardinal-john-dew-archbishop-of-new-zealand/
Obituary: Honorah Mary Martelletti, JP, QSM 1932-2022
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/128415593/obituary-honorah-mary-martelletti-jp-qsm-19322022
Nora Martelletti spent a lifetime rising to the occasion. A wife, a mother, a Justice of the Peace, her gentle manner sometimes obscured her intelligence, capacity for reason and debate and vast contribution to the communities she loved. An environmentalist, a politician, a forward thinker, she was ever attuned to the issues of the day, committed to putting her Christian beliefs into practice ...
Retailer's relocation means op-shop looking for a new home
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/central-otago/retailer%E2%80%99s-relocation-means-op-shop-looking-new-home
Clothing retailer Postie is returning to Alexandra after a three-year absence. The retailer's return means the Oasis Opportunity Shop, which operates under the umbrella of Catholic Social Services Dunedin and Central Otago, is left without a home.
From tragedy to joy: Baby on the way for couple who lost unborn son in horror motorbike crash
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/from-tragedy-to-joy-baby-on-the-way-for-couple-who-lost-unborn-son-in-horror-motorbike-crash/F7NO64AJGSWJ4B26MCJKOQOTCQ/
In January last year a motorbike crash shattered - and almost ended - the lives of young couple Kendra Smith and Corey Thompson. But after a year of lows beyond most people's imagination, Smith and Thompson are on top of the world and are excitedly planning their wedding - and for a very special new arrival ...
Former Catholic sisters retreat high above Christchurch to go to auction
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/128391458/former-catholic-sisters-retreat-high-above-christchurch-to-go-to-auction
An almost century-old former Catholic sisters retreat is to go to auction in Christchurch 37 years since it was last on the market. Originally built as a retreat for the nursing sisters of the Little Company of Mary, the property was known as Mary's Mount Rest Home and was opened by Bishop Brodie on December 4, 1927 ...
'Blankets 4 Kids 4 Winter' appeal starts in May
https://www.times.co.nz/news/blankets-4-kids-4-winter-appeal-starts-in-may/
Winter is on its way and the unfortunate truth is that many families in the community will not have enough blankets to keep their kids warm on winter nights. To assist the plight of these families, Howick Rotary will commence the collection of blankets and quilts for its Blankets 4 Kids 4 Winter Appeal on May 1 and it will run for the month of May ...
Eva honoured on her 90th birthday: Long service to the community remembered
Bush Telegraph 18 April 2022 pp.20-21
https://bushtelegraph.communitynews.co.nz/bush-telegraph
On Saturday, April 2 at a midday luncheon in the Dannevirke Services and Citizens Club close to 70 friends and family celebrated Eva Wright's 90th birthday and the life she has led contributing constantly to the community ...
NEWS OF THE SCHOOLS
State-integrated schools: preserving elitism or providing diversity?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/128392315/stateintegrated-schools-preserving-elitism-or-providing-diversity
The history [of State-integrated schools] stretches back to 1975, the third Labour government, and the Catholic Church. Many of the country's Catholic schools, which were private, were close to bankruptcy due to mounting financial pressure through the 1950s and 60s ...
St Kevin's pupil back on track
https://www.oamarumail.co.nz/sport/st-kevins-pupil-back-on-track/
After joining North Otago Athletics Club at age 10, Liam Prouting-Gardner stepped away from the sport a year later, as there was no senior coach to help him progress. Eighteen months ago, Liam (17) re-joined the club. The St Kevin's College pupil's focus and hard work paid off last month, when he won silver in the under-18 400m at the New Zealand track and field championships ...
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SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER (Divine Mercy Sunday)
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Today's Mass, concelebrated by Msgr David Tonks at St Joseph's Church Takapuna, can be viewed at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X77UicVIsMo
Sunday Mass is also broadcast 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 Sister Stephanie Kitching.
John 20:19-31 Jesus appears to his disciples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73yQ4X6gQ6k&list=PLeDNiKpHSQBDAIAYJEHi42R7ctvsFuTEU&index=37
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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/
Pope says proposed June meeting with Patriarch Kirill called off
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2022/04/pope-says-proposed-june-meeting-with-patriarch-kirill-called-off
Pope Francis told an Argentine journalist that his planned second meeting with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill – penciled in for June in Jerusalem – has been canceled, and argued that there is no sense in him visiting Kyiv if Russia's invasion of Ukraine would resume "the following day" ...
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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:
https://www.caritas.org.nz/get-involved/catholic-volunteers-overseas
Job vacancies in the Catholic dioceses of ...
Auckland: https://www.aucklandcatholic.org.nz/staff-vacancies/
Hamilton: https://www.cdh.org.nz/jobs
Wellington: https://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/adw_community/vacancies/
Dunedin: https://www.cdd.org.nz/employment-opportunities
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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.
https://www.svdp.org.nz/resources/ Newsletters. News in Brief:
'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine.
https://tuimotu.org/ Scroll down to Articles, Explore More
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Facebook
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NZ Catholic Bishops' Conference
https://www.facebook.com/CatholicNZ/
Catholic Discovery NZ (Catholic Enquiry Centre)
https://www.facebook.com/catholicdiscovery.nz/
'NZ Catholic' newspaper
https://www.facebook.com/NZCatholic/
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand
https://www.facebook.com/caritasaotearoa/timeline
Holy Cross Seminary
https://www.facebook.com/HolyCrossNZ
Marist Seminary, Auckland NZ
https://www.facebook.com/Marists
Society of St Vincent de Paul NZ
https://www.facebook.com/SocietyofStVincentdePaulNZ/
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News of the Church
in NZ and the World
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http://cathnews.co.nz/category/new-zealand/
https://nzcatholic.org.nz/
https://www.romereports.com/en/ (video)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rome+reports&sp=EgIIAw%253D%253D
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/
https://www.cruxnow.com
https://www.lastampa.it/vatican-insider/en
NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
https://www.catholic.org.nz/news/media-releases/
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2022 resources now ready (22 April 2022)
https://www.catholic.org.nz/news/media-releases/wopfcu2022/
The resources for this year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity are now available. The Week is celebrated in Aotearoa New Zealand between Ascension and Pentecost Sundays each year, so 29 May to 5 June this year ...
************************************
'NZ CATHOLIC'
Website: https://nzcatholic.org.nz/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NZCatholic/
Full text articles: https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2022/
The full text of 'NZ Catholic' April 24 - May 7, 2022 No. 63 is online at:
https://www.catholic.org.nz/assets/NZ-Catholic_Issue-635_April-24-2022.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0y3_cAl5d6JpGpBtFfK0au_WeEvw1UWbvEcBpYOdlrQsZJFkRipMVj6jo
In this issue: Hospices facing funding challenges ... Auckland's Marist Seminary faces repair job ... Aubert's path to sainthood delayed by Vatican 'no miracle' ruling ... Encounter with Marists led to vocation journey ... Legion of Mary ceremonies held in Auckland ... Survey shows softening attitude on blasphemy ... Guest Editorial by Bishop Emeritus John Mackey in 1997: Most important Christian feast ... Call for Church to be community of peacemakers ... More Catholic military chaplains wanted ... Caritas event to support Holy Land school ... Royal commission faith inquiry broadened
... Helen Luxford: Should we take kids to funerals? ... Cheryl working for parish renewal.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS.
Head of the Catholic Church reflects on importance of Easter Sunday (audio interview)
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/real-life/audio/cardinal-john-dew-archbishop-of-new-zealand/
Obituary: Honorah Mary Martelletti, JP, QSM 1932-2022
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/128415593/obituary-honorah-mary-martelletti-jp-qsm-19322022
Nora Martelletti spent a lifetime rising to the occasion. A wife, a mother, a Justice of the Peace, her gentle manner sometimes obscured her intelligence, capacity for reason and debate and vast contribution to the communities she loved. An environmentalist, a politician, a forward thinker, she was ever attuned to the issues of the day, committed to putting her Christian beliefs into practice ...
Retailer's relocation means op-shop looking for a new home
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/central-otago/retailer%E2%80%99s-relocation-means-op-shop-looking-new-home
Clothing retailer Postie is returning to Alexandra after a three-year absence. The retailer's return means the Oasis Opportunity Shop, which operates under the umbrella of Catholic Social Services Dunedin and Central Otago, is left without a home.
From tragedy to joy: Baby on the way for couple who lost unborn son in horror motorbike crash
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/from-tragedy-to-joy-baby-on-the-way-for-couple-who-lost-unborn-son-in-horror-motorbike-crash/F7NO64AJGSWJ4B26MCJKOQOTCQ/
In January last year a motorbike crash shattered - and almost ended - the lives of young couple Kendra Smith and Corey Thompson. But after a year of lows beyond most people's imagination, Smith and Thompson are on top of the world and are excitedly planning their wedding - and for a very special new arrival ...
Former Catholic sisters retreat high above Christchurch to go to auction
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/128391458/former-catholic-sisters-retreat-high-above-christchurch-to-go-to-auction
An almost century-old former Catholic sisters retreat is to go to auction in Christchurch 37 years since it was last on the market. Originally built as a retreat for the nursing sisters of the Little Company of Mary, the property was known as Mary's Mount Rest Home and was opened by Bishop Brodie on December 4, 1927 ...
'Blankets 4 Kids 4 Winter' appeal starts in May
https://www.times.co.nz/news/blankets-4-kids-4-winter-appeal-starts-in-may/
Winter is on its way and the unfortunate truth is that many families in the community will not have enough blankets to keep their kids warm on winter nights. To assist the plight of these families, Howick Rotary will commence the collection of blankets and quilts for its Blankets 4 Kids 4 Winter Appeal on May 1 and it will run for the month of May ...
Eva honoured on her 90th birthday: Long service to the community remembered
Bush Telegraph 18 April 2022 pp.20-21
https://bushtelegraph.communitynews.co.nz/bush-telegraph
On Saturday, April 2 at a midday luncheon in the Dannevirke Services and Citizens Club close to 70 friends and family celebrated Eva Wright's 90th birthday and the life she has led contributing constantly to the community ...
NEWS OF THE SCHOOLS
State-integrated schools: preserving elitism or providing diversity?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/128392315/stateintegrated-schools-preserving-elitism-or-providing-diversity
The history [of State-integrated schools] stretches back to 1975, the third Labour government, and the Catholic Church. Many of the country's Catholic schools, which were private, were close to bankruptcy due to mounting financial pressure through the 1950s and 60s ...
St Kevin's pupil back on track
https://www.oamarumail.co.nz/sport/st-kevins-pupil-back-on-track/
After joining North Otago Athletics Club at age 10, Liam Prouting-Gardner stepped away from the sport a year later, as there was no senior coach to help him progress. Eighteen months ago, Liam (17) re-joined the club. The St Kevin's College pupil's focus and hard work paid off last month, when he won silver in the under-18 400m at the New Zealand track and field championships ...
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SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER (Divine Mercy Sunday)
**************
Today's Mass, concelebrated by Msgr David Tonks at St Joseph's Church Takapuna, can be viewed at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X77UicVIsMo
Sunday Mass is also broadcast 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 Sister Stephanie Kitching.
John 20:19-31 Jesus appears to his disciples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73yQ4X6gQ6k&list=PLeDNiKpHSQBDAIAYJEHi42R7ctvsFuTEU&index=37
*************
Other New Zealand Commentaries on the Sunday Readings:
*************
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/
Pope says proposed June meeting with Patriarch Kirill called off
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2022/04/pope-says-proposed-june-meeting-with-patriarch-kirill-called-off
Pope Francis told an Argentine journalist that his planned second meeting with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill – penciled in for June in Jerusalem – has been canceled, and argued that there is no sense in him visiting Kyiv if Russia's invasion of Ukraine would resume "the following day" ...
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EMPLOYMENT
**********
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 dioceses of ...
Auckland: https://www.aucklandcatholic.org.nz/staff-vacancies/
Hamilton: https://www.cdh.org.nz/jobs
Wellington: https://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/adw_community/vacancies/
Dunedin: https://www.cdd.org.nz/employment-opportunities
******************************************************
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
***********************
New Zealand Catholic
Periodicals & Newsletters
***********************
'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.
https://www.svdp.org.nz/resources/ Newsletters. News in Brief:
'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine.
https://tuimotu.org/ Scroll down to Articles, Explore More
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NZ Catholic Bishops' Conference
https://www.facebook.com/CatholicNZ/
Catholic Discovery NZ (Catholic Enquiry Centre)
https://www.facebook.com/catholicdiscovery.nz/
'NZ Catholic' newspaper
https://www.facebook.com/NZCatholic/
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand
https://www.facebook.com/caritasaotearoa/timeline
Holy Cross Seminary
https://www.facebook.com/HolyCrossNZ
Marist Seminary, Auckland NZ
https://www.facebook.com/Marists
Society of St Vincent de Paul NZ
https://www.facebook.com/SocietyofStVincentdePaulNZ/
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News of the Church
in NZ and the World
*****************
http://cathnews.co.nz/category/new-zealand/
https://nzcatholic.org.nz/
https://www.romereports.com/en/ (video)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rome+reports&sp=EgIIAw%253D%253D
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/
https://www.cruxnow.com
https://www.lastampa.it/vatican-insider/en
