February 2020
40 Day for Life Prayer Campaign
Please join us in a powerful Lenten prayer effort. Just one hour a week praying opposite Christchurch Hospital will help to save the lives of unborn children scheduled for abortion and increase our nation’s reverence for life. Many volunteers needed from 8:00am to 6:00pm between 26th Feb and 5th April. You won’t stand alone. Visit 40daysforlife.com/christchurch or ring Tony on 022 057 3860 for more info.
Find out more »March 2020
Rosary House Spiritual Life Centre
Mercy Global Presence: Exploring images, language and understandings of God and the call to be a presence of love and justice. Facilitators: Sisters of Mercy Tuesday 18 and 25 February and 17 and 24 March (Sessions one hour) Register with Rosary House giving preferred time: 10.30am or 1.30pm or 7.30pm. Explore images, language and understandings of God and the call to be a presence of love and justice as part of a ‘global heartbeat’ in our local realities. Sessions use…
Find out more »April 2020
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Formation Course
April 4-6, 2020 & May 1-3, 2020 St Pius X Catholic Church, 59 Pine Ave, Melville, Hamilton 3206 Catechesis of the Good Shepherd is a Montessori based faith education process that enables children to encounter God in a retreat like atmosphere filled with sensorially rich materials based on the Scriptures and the Liturgy. This Level 1 Part 1 Formation Course is for those interested in the faith development of children aged 3 to 6 years old. It is the foundation…
Find out more »J.S. Bach St John Passion
J.S. Bach’s St John Passion will be performed at 8 pm on Good Friday, April 10, 2020, in St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Manchester Street. Written for Good Friday, 1724, the Passion is a compact and intensely dramatic setting of St John’s description of Christ’s last hours. Soloists will be Stephanie Waterhouse, Louisa Pilkington, Ken Joblin, Wally Enright and Chris Whelan, with Ben Madden as the Evangelist, and Adrian Lowe as tenor soloist. The orchestra will be led by Natalia M. Lomeiko,…
Find out more »Seasons for Growth Course
2 DAY RETREAT STYLE COURSE AT BEATITUDES 26/27 April (Sunday/Monday of Anzac Weekend) Seasons for Growth is an innovative education programme that explores the effects of change, loss and grief. Seasons is based on the belief that change and loss are part of life and grief is a normal response to these losses. We need the opportunity to learn about how our significant losses may impact our lives. Seasons provides an opportunity for participants to learn the knowledge, skills and…
Find out more »May 2020
Woven 2020 – Diocesan prayer event / vigil
“I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God’s great mystery.” Col 2:2 As we prepare for Pentecost and look forward to our new future within the Diocese, you are invited to come and join Bishop Paul in a prayer vigil. This is to pray for our future and for unity, to be woven together and to…
Find out more »September 2020
Visit of David Wells
David Welles will be visiting the diocese and speaking to clergy, parish leaders and school leaders. Read the background of David here More information to follow View a video below of what you might hear from David Wells...
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