Recently the parish of Our Lady Star of the Sea Sumner (now Stella Maris Ferrymead) celebrated 22 years involvement in Passionist Family Groups. The first parish coordinators in 1993 were Joan and the late John Collins. Following Mass there was a shared morning tea and Julia and Bill Pringle parish coordinators cut the yummy cake […]
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NZ Passionist Youth Retreat was held 13th – 16th July 2015 at Camp Rangi Wood, Pohangina Valley, Manawatu. Thanks to the Passionists Holy Spirit Province for their support in making it possible in March for Tim McDade (Passionist Young adults retreat presenter from Brisbane and joint Brisbane team leader with his wife Jo) to spent […]
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SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES NZ Passionist Young Adult retreat held 17th-19th July 2015 Thanks to Fr Ray Sanchez Passionist Priest from Brisbane for coming over so soon after the Passionist 4 yearly Provincial Chapter and ministering to the young people in NZ. Ray’s presenting style was well received and the content drawing in each to explore […]
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Thanks to the support from the Passionists Holy Spirit Province, in March Tim McDade from the Passionist Youth Retreat team in Brisbane spent a weekend in Palmerston North, New Zealand to meet and introduce 6 young keen kiwi adults to the Passionist retreat style and charism. All of the NZ young adults had previously attended […]
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They say ‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink’. Well, from the 7th -10th July, 25 NZ youth aged 15-18 registered for the Passionist Youth Retreat which took place at Camp Rangi Woods with a program presented by Fr Ray Sanchez, with Erick Niriragira supporting. It is indeed a […]
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27 Young Adults took time out to spend time away from everyday life for a weekend from July 13-15th. They gathered at the Magnificat retreat centre in Featherston, to be part of a program presented by Fr Ray Sanchez from Brisbane. Ray lives his life from a suitcase whilst running missions around Australia and New Zealand, giving […]
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At Our Lady of Lourdes Palmerston North we celebrated 20 years of PFGs on 23rd March 2014 at the 10a.m. Mass. We had our banner displayed in the entrance and the Voyage of Discovery artworks was displayed near the altar. Linda Darbyshire gave a wonderful talk on what PFGs meant for her and Paul […]
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Pope Francis’s pastoral emphasis An inclusive God for an inclusive Church Pope Francis has frequently claimed that the purpose of the Church is more to proclaim God’s merciful love FOR ALL PEOPLE THAN TO CONDEMN SINNERS, especially those having to do with gender and sexual orientation. Again Francis said “God is in every person’s life. […]
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THE HOPE POPE At the end of March Fr Brian Traynor CP presented a session to approximately 40 parishioners of St Joesph’s Parish, New Plymouth, on the direction that Pope Francis I is leading the Church. In his writings, Pope Francis tells us that our Church needs to be a lively institution that emphasizes relationships […]
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