In August at St Theresa’s Parish in Plimmerton, a very special celebration was amalgamated into the Sunday Mass. The Passionist Family Group Movement has been active in New Zealand since the little parish of Paeroa invited the Passionists into their midst in 1988. It has continued to grow to a point where, at its height, […]

Recently St Mary’s Hokitika celebrated their first year of Passionist Family Groups. There are two groups named Totara Tribe and Tui Troupe. The groups brought food to go to the Food Bank. Mass was celebrated and Welcome to the Family was the entrance hymn. Some of the comments about Passionist Family Groups after Mass were: “We […]

On Sunday 21 February, St. Peter’s Beckenham celebrated 20 years of Passionist Family Groups in that arm of the parish now known as Sancta Maria. Passionist priest, Fr. Brian Traynor CP, from Melbourne officiated at the Sunday morning mass and South Island Directors of the PFGM, Murray & Aileen Straight, presented the parish with a painting entitled “Voyage of Discovery” in […]

On the weekend of the 12th-14th of February the Passionist Family Groups National Directors Lynn and Rob Hill and Diocesan Directors from around the country gathered at the Home of Compassion in Island Bay for their annual PFGM Directors meeting facilitated by Fr Brian Traynor CP from Melbourne, Australia. Over the course of the weekend […]

Our Passionist family group decided to cook a meal for the families at Ronald McDonald House in Christchurch in October 2015. It is the first time our group has done this but it is unanimous that we will be going back again this year. We had a busy evening cooking for the families in the […]

Papatoetoe Parish re-established Passionist Family Groups on 17-5-2015, starting with 6 Groups.   Billie and Jocelyn Uasike (PFG Leaders from the original set up in 1990) are Parish Coordinators