Welcom newsitems

• • More than 100 awarded for parish service

    • 9 Jun 2010
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    • A packed cathedral of family and friends rejoiced with over 100 recipients of the first Fitzgerald Awards of the Archdiocese of Wellington last month.
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• • Prisoners share their grief

    • 15 May 2010
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    • The leader of a grief counselling programme in the high-medium unit of Rimutaka Prison says the men she works with are struggling day-to-day because they have no one in whom they can safely confide.
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• • Convent Old Girls celebrate 75 years on the court

    • 9 Oct 2009
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    • Convent Old Girls Netball Club the oldest club still in existence in the Hutt Valley recently celebrated its 75th Jubilee at the Angus Inn in Lower Hutt with more than 100 past and present players and friends.
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    Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Newtown People's Market a regular

    • 3 Mar 2009
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    • The first Newtown People's Market and Boot Sale was such a success last year that organisers have decided to run it each month on the last Saturday, 11am to 3pm at St Anne's Church Hall, Emmett Street, Newtown.
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    Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Sister John Bosco Fraser RSM RIP

    • 6 Jun 2008
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    • Sr John Bosco taught in Catholic primary schools in Hataitai, Naenae, Upper Hutt, Reefton, Westport and Kilbirnie and later at Hato Paora College, Feilding.
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    Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • The cathedral 160 years ago

    • 6 Jun 2008
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    • Even before the diocese was established, there were the beginnings of the Catholic community in Wellington bringing together Catholic immigrant families. Bishop Pompallier celebrated the first Mass in Wellington on Christmas Day, 1840.
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• • Miriama Te Ahipuia Kahu RIP

    • 6 Jun 2008
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    • Miriama was involved in setting up Te Kohanga Reo in Kaikoura, and in the construction of Takahanga Marae, and she established Te Tai o Marokura Health and Social Service and Ariama Cultural Retreat Centre.
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• • God gave us a gift in Sr Jean-Marie

    • 6 Jun 2008
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    • God’s gift arrived in the Wellington Archdiocese when Sister Jean-Marie McErlane decided she would give her considerable talents as teacher to establish and lead some of the Brigidine schools.
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• • Sisters act Johnsonville style for local pilgrims

    • 10 Apr 2008
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    • There was audience enthusiasm as never before in Johnsonville last month when the religious sisters put on a concert for local World Youth Day pilgrims. Even before the final rehearsal enthusiastic fans were queuing at Ss Peter and Paul church for the March 14 concert.
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• • Waikanae monsta WYD garage sale

    • 10 Apr 2008
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    • The sun shone, the people rolled in and there was something for everyone at the Kapiti WYD garage sale. The sausages were superb, the cakes simply delicious, the deals were spectacular and the pilgrims were very happy to have their fundraising efforts boosted by $2500.
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• • Newtown Festival and World Youth Day

    • 10 Apr 2008
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    • Items included the 2008 WYD Song, a medieval weaponry display and more music. We also had a craft stall in the main street selling jewellery, cards and artwork by pilgrims.
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    Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Karen Holland installed in Sth Wellington

    • 4 Feb 2008
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    • A reflection from her husband, Duncan, on the impact of Karen's appointment on the family.
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• • Catholic rugby club parties

    • 6 Jul 2007
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    • On Saturday 26 May, Wellington’s Catholic rugby club, Marist St Pats, hosted almost 200 former players, coaches, managers, supporters and special guests to its annual Old Timers’ luncheon at its Hataitai clubrooms.
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• • Changes to pastoral appointments in Wellington West

    • 8 Jun 2007
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    • The future of Karori, Wadestown and the Cathedral parishes from 1 July. Parishioners in the Wellington West Pastoral Area will be informed of decisions about the future of the area’s three parishes with the departure from Karori of Fr Tom O’Brien on 1 July. This is the essence of the changes.
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    Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Catholics return home in the north

    • 8 Jun 2007
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    • St Josephs Parish, Upper Hutt, celebrated the first two years of its Catholics Returning Home programme last month in which parishioners have accompanied 25 Catholics on their return to the Church. The CRH team put on afternoon tea on 20 May in the foyer of the church and invited all who had been involved with the programme in the Northern Hutt Valley Pastoral Area to meet those on the journey back to their faith roots.
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    Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)