Marist School has worked hard to raise the money through their annual Mission Market and now it will be put to good use. Leanne and Matthew Prichard, along with their children Louis, Fenn and Nina will personally ensure the funds are delivered safely to Mulemi Community School in Zambia. A sum this size is likely to Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Mission’
Warning about overseas priests emptying Irish parishes
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
A spokesman for a priests’ association in Ireland has warned that bringing overseas priests in to plug vocations gaps could empty Irish churches. Fr Brendan Hoban of the Association of Catholic Priests said that there is a risk that old fashioned pastoral approaches by overseas priests could empty some Irish parishes in a decade. Two Nigerian priests have Read more
Mission Vineyards: 50 shades of grapes
Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
Mission Estate Winery, perched high in the Taradale Hills of Hawkes Bay, is as much a history book as it is a vineyard. Approaching the extensive property, the first thing to steal your attention is an avenue of plane trees, the solid trunks, 57 in total, have stood sentry here alongside fields of vines since Read more
Cardinal Marx finds new evangelisation concept problematic
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
The president of the German bishops’ conference has admitted that he has difficulties with the notion of the new evangelisation. Cardinal Reinhard Marx told the French Jesuit journal Etudes that he finds this “concept” to be problematic. The term “new evangelisation” was referred to by St John Paul II in Redemptoris Missio (33). Its application Read more
The Blogosphere as mission field for Catholic women
Friday, February 27th, 2015
As a Catholic author, speaker, and blogger working from my suburban home, I often marvel at the unique vantage point I have to share my voice in service to the Church I love. My laptop, a strong wifi connection, and a patient husband combine to enable me to engage in serving my Church between loads Read more
Former Marist seminarians reuniting to see where their mission is taking them now
Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
Marist seminarians from the 1970’s onwards are being invited to a reunion with a purpose; to see where their mission is taking them now. “Our years at Mount St Mary’s were some of the most memorable of our lives. Let’s re-live the memories, re-invigorate the friendship and share where our Mission is taking us now”, Read more
Retired Benedict XVI says relativism is lethal to faith
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has warned against relativistic ideas of religious truth as being “lethal to faith”. The retired pontiff sent a written message of 1800 words to Rome’s Pontifical Urbanian University, where a lecture hall was recently dedicated to him. “The risen Lord instructed his apostles, and through them his disciples in all ages, Read more
Pope warns bishops not to accept priests when clergy are few
Tuesday, October 7th, 2014
Pope Francis has warned bishops not to accept priests just because there is a shortage of them in a diocese. In an address to the Congregation for Clergy on October 3, Pope Francis asked bishops to think of the good of the people of God and to study the itinerary of vocations carefully. Vocations are Read more
Evangelii Gaudium – Reasons for a renewed missionary impulse
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014262. Spirit-filled evangelizers are evangelizers who pray and work. Mystical notions without a solid social and missionary outreach are of no help to evangelization, nor are dissertations or social or pastoral practices which lack a spirituality which can change hearts. These unilateral and incomplete proposals only reach a few groups and prove incapable of radiating Read more
Evangelii Gaudium: A mission embodied within human limits
Friday, December 20th, 201340. The Church is herself a missionary disciple; she needs to grow in her interpretation of the revealed word and in her understanding of truth. It is the task of exegetes and theologians to help “the judgment of the Church to mature”.42 The other sciences also help to accomplish this, each in its own way. Read more