Memorial Service - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 17 Nov 2024 17:49:30 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Memorial Service - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Memorial service in Christchurch for Yanfei Bao https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/11/18/memorial-service-in-christchurch-for-yanfei-bao/ Mon, 18 Nov 2024 04:54:05 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=177994 A public memorial service will be held for real estate agent Yanfei Bao in Christchurch next week. Organisers said people were invited to attend the service at Our Lady of Victories Church in Sockburn at 11am on Monday to remember the 44-year-old mother's "beautiful life", "celebrate all her incredible accomplishments" and share their favourite memories Read more

Memorial service in Christchurch for Yanfei Bao... Read more]]> A public memorial service will be held for real estate agent Yanfei Bao in Christchurch next week.

Organisers said people were invited to attend the service at Our Lady of Victories Church in Sockburn at 11am on Monday to remember the 44-year-old mother's "beautiful life", "celebrate all her incredible accomplishments" and share their favourite memories of her. Read more

Memorial service in Christchurch for Yanfei Bao]]> 177994 New Zealand memorial service for Jean Vanier https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/05/13/memorial-service-jean-vanier/ Mon, 13 May 2019 07:50:32 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=117454 A national memorial service for Jean Vanier will be held at St. Gregory's Catholic Church, Bishopdale, Christchurch on Saturday, June 8th at 11:00 am. It's open to the public. There will be a few smaller memorial services around the country that will be announced soon, but the Christchurch one is the primary one. The L'Arche Read more

New Zealand memorial service for Jean Vanier... Read more]]> A national memorial service for Jean Vanier will be held at St. Gregory's Catholic Church, Bishopdale, Christchurch on Saturday, June 8th at 11:00 am.

It's open to the public. There will be a few smaller memorial services around the country that will be announced soon, but the Christchurch one is the primary one.

The L'Arche community would also like to share information on a movie launching in New Zealand in June called Summer in the Forest.

It's a documentary about life in the first L'Arche community of Trosly-Breuil in northern France, and Jean Vanier is featured to a great extent in that movie.

It simply depicts ordinary, everyday life in that community, and the extraordinary nature of what's being lived there. Tickets must be purchased in advance, and the movie will be shown in several city centres: Wellington (June 12th), Auckland (June 12th), Christchurch (June 5th), Palmerston North and Paraparaumu (June 12th). To get more details and to buy tickets, go to: www.summerintheforest.co.nz

Contact for the Kapiti L'Arche community is: Candice Wilson, L'Arche Kapiti on 04 2984633 or 027 307 2477

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New Zealand memorial service for Jean Vanier]]> 117454 Samoa remembers tsunami https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/10/04/samoa-remembers-tsunami/ Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:30:40 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=50368

Memorial services have been held to commemorate the 29 September 2009 tsunami which ripped through villages, homes and businesses, killing 143 people in Samoa, 34 in American Samoa and 9 in Tonga. Radio New Zealand International reports that memorial church services were held, in the coastal villages of Upolu and people marched in black and Read more

Samoa remembers tsunami... Read more]]> Memorial services have been held to commemorate the 29 September 2009 tsunami which ripped through villages, homes and businesses, killing 143 people in Samoa, 34 in American Samoa and 9 in Tonga.

Radio New Zealand International reports that memorial church services were held, in the coastal villages of Upolu and people marched in black and white for those whose lives were taken four years ago.

At Leone village, in American Samoa two elementary school students and seven other residents died in the in the disaster, 100 lanterns were to be in the ocean Sunday to remember those who passed away.

"Each lantern will bear individual prayers and personal moments to be remembered of their beloved family members and friends that were taken in the tsunami tragedy," said Ipu Avegalio-Lefiti, one of the village organizers.

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Samoa remembers tsunami]]> 50368 New Plymouth Church hosts 9/11 memorial service https://cathnews.co.nz/2011/09/13/new-plymouth-church-hosts-911-memorial-service/ Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:30:36 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=11075

Just hours before they took the field against Ireland in the Rugby World Cup on Sunday, the USA Eagles were given a psychological boost at a 9/11 memorial service in New Plymouth. The service in St Andrew's Presbyterian Church was attended by US dignitaries, including the US Ambassador to New Zealand David Huebner. Hundreds of Read more

New Plymouth Church hosts 9/11 memorial service... Read more]]> Just hours before they took the field against Ireland in the Rugby World Cup on Sunday, the USA Eagles were given a psychological boost at a 9/11 memorial service in New Plymouth.

The service in St Andrew's Presbyterian Church was attended by US dignitaries, including the US Ambassador to New Zealand David Huebner.

Hundreds of people filled the church and the nearby hall and the service was full of emotional reminders of the significance of the day and of US patriotism.

The carrying in of the US flag, the rousing rendition of The Star Spangled Banner and the US Marine Corps Forces Pacific Band's trumpeter signalling Taps and Reveille were all moments appreciated by visiting Americans and their New Zealand hosts.

The welcome to the church for the Eagles squad drew a round of applause from the congregation.

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