On the 23rd and 24th of May the Passionist Family Group Australasian Directors meeting was held in Sydney. Clive and Frances Bleaken along with Paul and Linda Darbyshire attended as the New Zealand Representatives. They took this opportunity to acknowledge Fr Brian Traynor’s 21 years of PFG Ministry in Aotearoa. Messages from Rob & Lynn […]

This photo of Pearl Hadfield aged 92 at the Hurricanes versus the Stormers match at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington. Pearl (from Johnsonville Uniting Parish) said she had never been to a rugby match so our family group decided we should put that matter to right. We took her to the Hurricanes v Stormers – […]

Johnsonville Uniting Church is enjoying its 11th year in the Passionist Family Group Movement. With 74% of the congregation involved the pastoral care of the parish operates at a high level. Sts Peter and Paul – a short walk down the street, guided us into the PFG and now we enjoy a very special relationship […]

By Penny Hudson, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Howick In 1992 (or was it late 1991) we received some information about Passionist Family Groups at church, I guess to gauge the amount of interest in our Parish of Our Lady Star of the Sea. At that time I was fairly new to the Parish […]

Click here to read Fr Joachim’s profile Auckland Fr Joachim met with the Auckland Parish Co-ordinators and Regional team over lunch on November 8th 2008 after arriving in Auckland for his first visit to New Zealand the previous evening. He was keen to meet the people, and hear how things were going for family groups in the […]

In the August edition of the Marist Messenger Fr. Cahill wrote, “Like all families situations change and so it is with our Church family” He also made the comment, “A Parish should be our second family” I am taking these comments out of context purely because they raised the question in my mind, what is […]

The following are some photos and stories from the five young people from the Wellington, Palmerston North, and Hamilton Diocese who went to Melbourne with the Passionist Youth Experience. They were: Nicholas Alsford and Daniel Kleinsman (Wellington), Matt Sissons, Tim Darbyshire (Palmerston North), and Tori Prendergast (Hamilton). In order left to right at back: Daniel, […]