Passionist Family Groups Movement Aotearoa 2024 -2027 Planning and Consultation  Dear Passionist Family Group members, I am writing to you to seek your insights, comments and thoughts about the needs of our Movement over the next three years. The Trustees will be working with Fr. Brian Traynor CP (Passionist Advisor to NZ) and myself and […]

                                   Morena – Good morning, Clare and I arrived back Sunday October 6 and fortunately we had reasonable sleep on the plane which meant less impact from jet lag. In fact, I felt better than I did after the […]

Kia ora koutou, One of the great figures of Catholicism from the 19th Century is  Cardinal St John Henry Newman (1801 – 1890) whose feast day comes up on Wednesday, 9 October. Newman was an English theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet, ordained first as an Anglican priest and then later as a Catholic […]

Over 30 years ago we welcomed a refugee family into our Passionist Family Group, it wasn’t easy as they had no English & of course there were cultural differences. We got to know & love them as family and were asked to be Confirmation sponsors for their sons. The children grew & flew their nests, […]