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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
NZCBC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CatholicNZ/
** The Catholic Diocese of Auckland is seeking a suitably qualified chief financial officer.
** Next Wednesday September 1 is the World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation and marks the beginning of a month-long Season of Creation for Christians throughout the world. The National Liturgy Office has prepared a page of resources to help prepare for it.
** The National Liturgy Office has published a page of information to help everyone manage this lockdown period without the usual access to liturgies at church. For we people of faith, many who depend on the Mass celebrated on Sundays and throughout the week find ourselves struggling without the strength received from the Eucharist. The creative suggestions on this page will help ...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Sunday's Miriama Kamo on her time with isolated Canterbury monks (article and video report)
A visit to the ultra-traditional order, the Transalpine Redemptorists, living in South Canterbury hills.
Helping families say goodbye to loved ones during lockdown
During the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown Julian Donaldson was experiencing his own loss, locked down at the South Canterbury Hospice, comforting his terminally ill mother. This lockdown he is helping bereaved families as their loved ones are laid to rest via Zoom. In alert level 4 families cannot view the body or attend burial or cremations ...
Person with Covid-19 linked to two Auckland churches
Parishioners from two Catholic churches in Auckland have to get tested and self-isolate after coming into contact with a Covid-19 case. Saint Therese Catholic Church in Mangere East, Auckland. Source: Google Maps
The positive case and their family members attended services at Saint Therese Catholic Church in Mangere East on August 15 while infectious.
Religious communities Zoom in: Services go online in lockdown
As a lockdown forces people to stay home in their bubbles, religious communities are finding new ways to work and stay spiritually connected. [This article is behind a paywall but can be read with some difficulty: right-click on the article, choose View page source, search for Richard Laurenson]
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOLS
'We would have caught it earlier': Clare Hewitt encourages Pacific Island and Maori to speak up about cancer
Twelve-year-old Senira Hewitt successfully campaigned for her school – St Joseph's in Upper Hutt – to take on a student counsellor.
Young Enterprise Scheme: Sacred Heart Girls' College student receives award
Sacred Heart Girls' College student Abbie Wood has been recognised at a national level for her outstanding efforts in two 2021 Young Enterprise Scheme challenges.
Timaru student helping inspire NZ paralympians
Kiwis beginning their path to glory at the Paralympics in Tokyo will be able to draw inspiration from an artwork by a Timaru student. Ivan Obillo, a 14-year-old year 9 student at Roncalli College, won a competition to have his artwork, together with one other winner, showcased on the walls of the New Zealand Paralympic team's base at the athletes' village in Tokyo ...
Disquiet over stress of mock exams
PASCO
Parents are concerned mock exams, which started online at an Invercargill school yesterday, are putting extra pressure on their children during the Alert Level 4 lockdown. In a Facebook post last Thursday night, Verdon College pupils and parents were advised the exams, which were scheduled at the start of the year, would still continue, whether the school was at Alert Level 2 or not.
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TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (B)
The Mass of the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, celebrated by Father Pat Breeze SM at the Marist Seminary in Auckland, is broadcast on Auckland Diocese's YouTube channel at:
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).
In conformity with the lockdown regulations, the Mass was attended only by the community of the seminary.
Inspired Word: A video reading and commentary on the gospel of the day by Very Rev. Frank Nelson and Rev. Dr Ellie Sanderson at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington.
Mark 7:1-8,14-15, 21-23 The things that make a person unclean
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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
Beatification of 'the Smiling Pope' likely to be approved this fall
Nearly 18 years after the opening of the canonization cause of Albino Luciani, better known as Pope John Paul I, his beatification could finally be green-lighted this fall with the approval of a miracle that has been presented of a scientifically inexplicable healing of an Argentine girl ...
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EMPLOYMENT
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Chief Financial Officer, Catholic Diocese of Auckland
Applications close on 13 September at 5.00pm.
Caritas Aotearoa NZ -- the Catholic Bishops' agency for justice, peace and development -- is seeking an education advisor, nominally based in Wellington. Position requirements include a teaching qualification, experience of New Zealand curriculum, and familiarity with and commitment to Catholic social teaching. Details at https://caritas.org.nz/get-involved/work-us and at: https://consultusgroup.secure.force.com/RecruitsmeCurrentJobs/ts2__JobDetails?jobId=a0D4y00000lCjhAEAS&tSource=
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
The six dioceses:
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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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