May 2014 www.cdd.org.nz Issue No 197 Double sainthood celebrated... St Peter’s Square at the Vatican was packed on Divine Mercy Sunday, 27 April, 2014, when close to a million pilgrims witnessed Francis officially declare former pontiffs John Paul II and John XXIII as . In an historic first, Pope Emeritus Benedict, 87, concelebrated Mass alongside Pope Francis. Benedict had arrived in the square on his own to cheers and applause, wearing the same white vestments and white bishop’s mitre as the cardinals. He was greeted warmly by his successor, Francis. At the appropriate moment in the ceremony, Pope Francis paused, then made the historic pronouncement (though speaking in Latin.) As soon as he concluded, applause broke out from the crowd in St Peter’s and beyond.

‘For the honour of the Blessed Trinity, the exaltation of the Catholic faith and the increase of the Christian life, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ and of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and having sought the council of many of our brother Bishops, we declare and define Blessed John XXIII and John Paul II to be Saints. We enrol them among the Saints, decreeing that they are to be venerated as such by the whole Church. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.’

Pope John XXIII, known as ‘Good Pope John,’ is remembered for his historic encyclical Pacem in Terris, and for his calling of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. John Paul II, known as ‘The Polish Pope is remembered for his charismatic nature, his love of youth and his world travels, along with his role in the fall of Communism in Europe during his 27-year papacy. In his homily, Pope Francis offered each new saint heartfelt praise, saying John had allowed himself to be led by God to call the council, and hailing John Paul’s focus on the family. “They were priests, bishops and of the 20th century,” Francis said. “They lived through the tragic events of that century, but they were not overwhelmed by them. For them, God was more powerful; faith was more powerful.” The Tablet May 2014 Memorable moments... Hunting through my old photo files I came across this one that I took of Pope John Paul II at Lancaster Park, Christchurch, on Monday 24 November 1986, on the occasion of his visit to . He had just emerged from under the stand on his way out to the raised dais from where he would say Mass. I was one of the group to receive communion from him, so I was seated in an area that gave quick access to the main field and presented me with a good opportunity to capture a photo. He turned and greeted us as he emerged from under the stand and I snapped the shot. – Editor

One of the high points in the life of John Patrick Kennedy,Kennedy OBE,O former editor of The New Zealand Tablet, was the audience that he and his wife Colleen had with Pope John Paul II in in 1989. John died twenty years ago on 20 March 1994.

2 May 2014 The Tablet From Poland to the Peninsula By Cecylia Klobukowska A lovely Church service was celebrated by Bishop Len Boyle and Fr Mervyn Hanifin at Mary Queen of Peace historic Church at Broad Bay on Otago Penin- sula on Sunday, 27th April 2014. The Church was built at Waihola by the first Polish Settlers in Otago at the end of the nineteenth century, and moved to Broad Bay in 1948. Bishop Len Boyle in his homily reflected on a message of hope and mercy. He pointed out that the canonisation of two Popes is a consequence of the legacy reflected in the decisions of the Second Vatican Council initiated by Pope John XXXlll and continued by John Paul ll. Bishop Len also talked about his visits to the Vatican and meeting friendly and genuinely interested Pope John Paul who always remembered him as a Bishop coming from a very distant part of the world, New Zealand. and was instrumental in bringing down the Polish Pope. In Prayers of the Faithful we prayed the Iron Curtain so we can now enjoy After the mass we all enjoyed a for Pope John Paul ll, Cardinal Karol peace, freedom and democracy. cup of tea with John Paul’s favourite Wojtyla, the Great Pole, who said to us, When asked, Bishop Boyle said that cheesecake, baked especially for this “Be not afraid.” He ignited hope in the John Paul ll should be the Patron Saint occasion, and other favourite Polish hearts of millions of people in Poland of the African Continent, which adored delicacies. From Dunedin to Rome When Bishop Len Boyle met with Pope John Paul II in Rome, little did he know then that he was being photographed with another who would be declared Saint in his lifetime. He had met and been photographed with of Calcutta, who was later declared Blessed by Pope John Paul II. When Bishop Len met with the Pope, he presented him with a copy of the book, “The Invited,” which is the story of 733 Polish children who grew up in New Zealand as a consequence of war in their homeland. Bishop John Kavanagh, whom Bishop Len succeeded, had been very involved in their settlement in New Zealand, and, indeed, had been official guardian to many of those children.

3 The Tablet May 2014 Southern Catholic Colleges’ Sports Tournament Gore, Saturday 12 to Monday 14 April 2014 The annual Southern Catholic Colleges’ Sports Tournament was held in Gore on Saturday 12 – Monday 14 April 2014. The tournament was co- hosted by St Peter’s College, Gore, and Verdon College, Invercargill. The following schools took part: Roncalli College - Timaru, St Kevin’s College - Oamaru, St Peter’s College - Gore, Kavanagh College - Dunedin and Verdon College - Invercargill. This annual exchange is a major sporting event for the Colleges. Events included: Senior A Netball, 1st XV Boys’ Rugby, 1st XI Girls’ Football, 1st XI Boys’ Football, Senior A Boys’ Basketball, Senior A Girls‘ Basketball, 1st XI Girls’ Hockey, and 1st XI Boys’ Hockey. Large numbers of students travelled to Gore to compete in the tournament. For example, St Kevin’s College, Oamaru, had a contingent of 120 competitors. The overall champion for the coveted BISHOP BOYLE TROPHY was Roncalli College, Timaru. Food for All... Holy Family School, Wanaka, helped raise funds for the Cari- tas Challenge during Lent. Each week they followed a differ- Catholic Centre Shop ent theme and used a variety of ways to raise money. On 10 April they made and sold American Hotdogs. The pho- Pope Francis – to shows Year 8 pupils, Eva Wilson and Meg Harraway, busy enjoying their “MasterChef” act in the staffroom, as they pre- Untying the Knots pare to squirt the mustard! by Paul Vallely The money raised is sent to Caritas for their works of ‘Charity and Justice’ both in New Zealand and overseas. For Pope Francis – Untying the Knots, Paul Vallely travelled to Argentina and Rome to meet Bergoglio’s intimates over the last four decades. His book charts a remarkable journey. It reveals what changed the man who was to become Pope Francis – from a reactionary into the revolutionary who is unnerving Rome’s clerical careerists with the extent of hiss behind-the-scenes changes. In this perceptive portrait Paul Vallely offers both new evidence and penetrating insights into the kind of pope Francis could become. Price: $38.90 + P/P: $3.90

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5 The Tablet May 2014 Sister Marie (Annie) Fitzpatrick LSP... 100 good years

by the arrival of morning tea. My offer for the elderly, I have always been with to pour was set aside politely but firmly, others - the Little Sisters.” and the heavy teapot was taken in “Can you tell me something about hand in a way that reflected a lifetime your prayer life, Sister?” I asked. of service to others. Deftly she poured, “My prayer life? Well, the prayers I say and sweet was the tea. now are not the usual traditional ones As we concluded our morning tea, and so much - it’s just talking with God now. the conversation about Arrowtown, That’s the advantage of old age; you Sister Marie moved the dishes aside, have more time to pray. You can’t work, turned to me inquisitively and said, but you can pray. When I pray, I thank “Now what are you going to write?” God for having called me to care for “What would you like me to write?” I His elderly. You get to see, often after replied. a lifetime of pain, hardship and trial, By the Editor “Not all that business about the war,” there comes a calmness and serenity in Recently, I had the privilege of visiting she said, “That’s been written about the elderly. That is a sign that they are Sr Marie at the Sacred Heart Home of lots of times, and it’s not the important very near to God. That, also, is the cause the Little Sisters of the Poor in Brock- part.” of contentment on my part.” ville, Dunedin. “Then what would you like me to tell “See that picture and the saying on When I was ushered into the front the readers?” I said. the wall there,” she says, pointing to a room, this diminutive nun, dressed “Tell them that I have reached 100 painting of the foundress of the Little immaculately in her white habit, rose years, and that I have spent 81 of Sisters of the Poor, Saint Jeanne Jugan, quickly and freely to greet me. Her eyes those years as a Little Sister of the “Making the elderly happy is all that were bright and her smile welcoming. “I Poor looking after the elderly. I didn’t counts.” That is my contentment.” know you. You were in Arrowtown at the come looking for happiness, but I’ve Yes, that saying of Saint Jeanne Jugan celebrations for Saint Mary MacKillop. certainly had its equivalent, which is is, and has been, Sister Marie’s life. I remember, we talked outside the contentment.” house.” With her body moving as freely “What else can I tell them that is as her mind, Sister Marie directed me special for you, Sister, as you think to a chair by the window, alongside back over those one hundred the central heating panel, in case I was years?” feeling the cold after coming in from “I’ve never been alone - I’ve being outside. always had the companionship For some time we chatted about the and support of my Little Sisters. early days in Arrowtown and how she Tell them that. I often think of had been at school with some of my the lonely people who are alone Cotter family cousins. Names, dates in life, and I think how fortunate and events came clearly and accurately I am - I’ve never been alone. No into the conversation, interrupted only matter where I’ve been in caring Who is Jeanne Jugan? Jeanne Jugan is the foundress and first Pope Benedict said that Saint Jeanne’s Little Sister of the Poor. She was beati- would “show, once again, fied by Pope John Paul II on 3 October, how living faith is prodigious in good 1982 and canonized by Pope Benedict works, and how sanctity is a healing XVI on 11 October, 2009. balm for the wounds of humankind.” Jeanne Jugan gave herself entirely to Jeanne had often told her Little Sisters, God and the elderly poor. She is a Saint “We are grafted into the cross and we for old age. must carry it joyfully unto death.” At her , Pope John Paul For herself Jeanne chose the religious II said that “God could glorify no more name Sister Mary of the Cross. She humble a servant than she.” would live it in its fullness.

6 May 2014 The Tablet Matters of Life and Death Storytelling - A gift of the elderly... by the Editor Like many of those who experience at first hand the harsh- little postulant crying and moaning pityingly of hunger, and ness of war, Sister Marie Fitzpatrick, Little Sister of the Poor, afraid that she would die without more nourishment. Strong is reluctant to talk of her wartime experiences. She would as her own need was, Sister Marie took pity on the young girl prefer to put those episodes behind her and concentrate and gave her the pot. That night she returned to her cell and on the good things of life. However, such storytelling is an cried herself to sleep, so hungry that she thought that she, important contribution that the elderly can make to help herself, would die. another generation understand the seriousness of war, rather Some time afterwards, the Germans discovered that she than to see it as a glorious adventure. was a New Zealander. That presented them with a dilemma One story coaxed from Sister Marie tells much about the as, at that time, Germany was not at war with New Zealand. kind of woman she is, and something of the experiences that She was given some papers, and after being released, she have formed her faith and commitment over the past one boarded a train in an attempt to travel to a convent. Her hundred years. papers were checked on board and rejected as being not in After having been a prisoner of the Japanese during her time order. At that point she was taken and thrown forcibly off the in Shanghai, Sister Marie was transferred to to contin- train. Dazed, bruised and starving, she pondered her next ue her training and her work as a Little Sister of the Poor. As move. She had some recollection of there being a house in fate would have it, and accused of being a spy, once more she the town where Sisters lived, but her efforts to find it proved was taken prisoner, this time by the Germans. Along with a fruitless. group of her fellow Sisters, she found prison conditions to be As night approached, hungry and exhausted, she decided that sparse and their treatment harsh. Food was very limited, and all she could do was curl up on the pavement and sleep on the Sisters became extremely malnourished. In an attempt the street. As she did so, a young man appeared beside her. to get at least a little protein, they agreed amongst themselves “I know where the house is. Take my arm and I will lead you that each day one would take a turn at scraping the bottom of there,” he said. the soup pot and eating the little that was there. Sister Marie had been waiting and waiting for her turn to come. On the She looked at him, and felt a sense of trust and calmness. day that it did, she found herself standing alongside one poor Strange as it was for her to do so, and out of desperation, she took his arm and allowed herself to be led along the streets. When they arrived at the house, he knocked. Someone inside pulled the little slide on the door across, peered out, checked who it was, then opened the door and invited her in. Sister Marie turned to thank the young man who had helped her find a place of refuge. There was no one there. The street was empty.

7 The Tablet May 2014 Sister Winefride OP - Centenarian Born and named Vera Morris During her on 25 April 1914, Sister Mary studies, she was Winefride OP celebrated her asked if she would take a at the 100th birthday on 24 April 2014, Homer Tunnel at the Little Sisters of the Poor construction Home in Brockville, Dunedin. site in Fiordland with some other What a celebration it was with graduates to help members of her Dominican family, with research her extended Morris family, as well as about the rock ex-pupils and a wide circle of friends. samples. When Bishop Len Boyle and Father Kevin Winefride arrived Toomey celebrated Mass in the chapel at the site, she for the occasion. was horrified It was fitting that the setting for Sister to find that her Winefride’s birthday was in the Home accommodation of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Her was just a single other three sisters had each joined that canvas tent with Order as young women, and served out a wooden frame their years providing for the elderly in around it. She countries such as Spain and France. The remembers the youngest had died during the Great keas sliding up Flu, but the older two had each lived to and down on the roof outside the tent, she is very proud of her many pupils a good age. and sometimes looking down into it! and their achievements. In an interview several years ago with At one stage, she was given eight In 1974, Sister travelled overseas. Sister Joan Bennett OP, Sister Winefride samples of rock from the tunnel area She met and spent time with her own gave the following account of her early as a souvenir. They were of immense two sisters and their communities, life. value later in her Chemistry teaching. then went on to visit countries and “My father, John Morris, came out With her background of chemistry, St foundations of St Dominic, including from Tyneside, England. When he Patrick’s College, Teschemakers, was France and Spain. She travelled, also, to arrived at Port Chalmers there was able to begin presenting it as a course Italy and the United States. no one there to meet him. He had subject for many pupils. She never gave up personal study, come out on a settlement scheme for She joined the Dominican Sisters even in retirement. At the end of her farmers, arranged by the New Zealand in 1934, and taught in their schools teaching days, she studied theology Government. My mother, Sarah, said it throughout Otago and Southland from and spirituality at Holy Cross College, was just as well it fell through, because then until her retirement from teaching Mosgiel, and thoroughly enjoyed it. he didn’t know one boot from the other in 1983. It is remarkable that all her Later still, she began working in the about farming! He later became a ‘grip teaching was in Dominican schools of two Dunedin St Vincent de Paul shops, man’ on the trams, and as the years this diocese. enjoying this involvement immensely. passed, a prominent citizen of Kaikorai.” Winefride earned a reputation as It gave her great opportunities to meet He always pointed me out as being an excellent science teacher. Her ex- students and young people who were ‘the first of the Colonials’ born into the pupils describe her as ‘a dramatic always needing help. Of this experience family. We were eight children – four teacher’ who inspired them. Her deep she said, “Often all a customer needs is girls and four boys.” knowledge and love of science was a friendly chat, or a listening ear.” The first four siblings, born in England, quite infectious. “This is going to be the Sister Mary Winefride was also a were Winnie, Mary, Mona and Jim. Her most amazing experiment!” she would superb knitter and crochet worker! other brothers, born in New Zealand, say. Of course, in her hands, and with When questioned about her were Pat, Jack and Kevin. attention gained, it would be. longevity, Sister Winefride has been Sister Mary Winefride attended St She taught at Teschemakers for quick to respond, “I never set out to be Mary’s Primary School in Kaikorai, fourteen years from 1949. Her many ex- 100, you know. It just happened.” Dunedin, then St Dominic’s College in pupils never failed to keep in touch, nor To all her family and friends, Sister Dunedin. she with them. Her interest in their lives says, “I would like to thank you all for When she left school, Winefride and achievements has been constant your prayers, kind wishes and sharing attended the University of Otago where and genuine. It is a matter of joy for in this celebration with me. When you she completed a Diploma Course in her to learn that she is spoken of by get to my age, it’s nice to know you’re Home Economics. ex-pupils as “a superb teacher,” because appreciated. God bless you all.”

8 May 2014 The Tablet The Way of the Cross in Gore... Contributed by Suzanne Boyle The Way of the Cross was held through the streets of Gore on Good Friday morning. It was inaugurated by the local Minis- ters’ Association with the hope that it will continue in the ensuing years with each of the Christian communities tak- ing turns to host the event. There was a pleasing turn out, and many of the church communities were represented. The communities took turns at reading the six selected pas- sages from the Gospel of John, and leading a prayer. The Stations ended at the Baptist church where the pilgrims were hosted to a light lunch. Lawrence farewells Filipino families... Contributed by Maureen Cummings been in Lawrence for seven years and St Patrick’s parish of Lawrence recently served on the parish council, spoke of had a send-off for its Filipino parishion- the support and kindness that her peo- ers who have been working in Law- ple had enjoyed in Lawrence, and said rence at Tuapeka Gold Print over the how sad they were to be leaving. past few years. Some of them had been Family groups of the Filipinos had lived working in Lawrence to raise enough in five different houses in Lawrence, money to bring other members of their including the Catholic presbytery, and, family to New Zealand. Tuapeka Gold although many of them had worked Print moved its business to Fairfield very long hours, they had integrated over Easter and most of the Filipinos themselves into the community of will be relocating to that area. Lawrence and were very well thought At the send-off, Desiree Javier, who had of by the local residents.

9 The Tablet May 2014 150 Years of the in Southland By Wendy McArthur Labour weekend 2014 (25-26 October) will see a programme of celebrations in Invercargill to commemorate the es- tablishment of the first Catholic parish in Southland – a parish that covered all of the province including Queenstown. When the Catholics of Queenstown opened their church (St Mary’s) in 1863, it gave the Catholics of Invercargill the impetus to apply for a parish priest to the mission station of Southland and to begin working in earnest to build a church on the land bought in Clyde St in 1862. The money for this land had been collected by Donald Angus Cameron of Nokomai among the Irish Catholics at the diggings in Wakatipu. St Mary’s St Kevin’s at Wyndham in 1884, Bishop In the late 1800s the reporter for the Invercargill opened on 23rd October Moran remarked “it is a truism that Mataura Ensign was fond of beginning 1864, the celebrations were completed wherever there were a few Catholic his reports on the opening of yet another six weeks later when Fr Amatus Martin settlers nothing was felt so much as Catholic Church with the sentence arrived to be Parish Priest for Southland. the want of a church and no object “Last Sunday was a red letter day in the A French Marist, Fr Martin had arrived was more readily contributed to by the annals of the Catholic Church”. We are in New Zealand three years earlier and Catholics than a fund for the erection of hoping to make the 150th celebrations had been assisting Fr Moreau in Otago. a place of worship.” a red letter event which acknowledges Fr Martin realised on his arrival in New A committee of representatives from the sacrifices and commitment of the Zealand that he needed fast track the Southland parishes has begun the first settlers and announces that we are lessons in Maori, English and horse planning for the 150th celebrations still here and here to stay! riding in order to minister to far-flung which will include a Memorial Mass Registrations are not yet open but parishioners! Here “at the ends of the for deceased parishioners, clergy and expressions of interest are invited to earth” his parish was from Stewart Island religious on the Saturday morning, help with the planning. A website is in to Queenstown, Te Anau to Tokanui and an Ecumenical/Civic Service in the the process of being set up and this will all places in-between. afternoon and a dinner with guest be advertised in the next few weeks. The cutting up of the vast runs, speaker and entertainment at the Ascot To register your interest please email coupled with the coming of the railways Park Hotel on the Saturday evening. On [email protected] or write to saw a rapid growth of immigration to Sunday morning a combined parishes PO Box 837 Invercargill 9840 and mark Southland and a growing number of Mass will be held at the Ascot Park Hotel. the date on your calendar! Catholic churches opening throughout the province. Queenstown became a separate parish in 1873 followed by Riverton in 1880. In 1883 Fr Fitzgerald was sent from his post as a curate in Invercargill to begin the parish of Gore, opening the first church there ten months later. The 1880s saw five more churches opened in Southland 24 Hour personal service at Wyndham, Mataura, Wrey’s Bush, Orepuki and Winton which also became a separate parish in 1887. Each 03 218 2156 subsequent decade saw more churches added as the numbers of Catholics Funeral services, Monumental work, in what is often described as a very Scottish province, grew. When opening Grief Support

10 May 2014 The Tablet Christchurch Concerts Contributed by Wendy McArthur Dr Raymond White, organist and Director of Music at St Mary’s Basilica Invercargill, is heading north to Christchurch REGIONAL VISITS to give a lunch-time concert in St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Manchester St, on Wednesday 28th May. Dr White will be Existing and prospective families are invited accompanied by Invercargill soprano Rebecca Ryan, whose to come and meet the Principal, Mrs Kate international experience of singing opera and sacred music is bringing a new joy to Invercargill music lovers and who Nicholson, and Director of Boarding, Mr Jon will be assisting Dr White with future performances of sacred McDowall to discuss how St Peter’s College and music at Invercargill’s Basilica. Rosmini House can meet the educational needs The concert is one of a series of Wednesday lunch-time concerts of your child. organised by Don Whelan, Musical Director of the Cathedral Balclutha June 5 – St Joseph’s School 6:30pm of the Blessed Sacrament Choir, to assist in raising funds for a Western Southland June 10 – Tuatapere – St suite of rooms for the use of the CBC choir and orchestra who Theresa’s 5:30, St Thomas’ Winton 7:30pm have been displaced by the Christchurch earthquakes. Northern Southland June 11 Dr White, who is one of New Zealand’s most experienced – Balfour School organists and choir directors, will present “Harmonious Pipes: 7:00pm Soprano and Organ” with music by Bach, Buxtehide, Messiaen, Wakatipu June 12 – St Joseph’s, Queenstown Dr Vernon Griffiths and a 17th century Scottish organ piece. 2:30-3:30, Holy Family, Wanaka 6:00pm Ms Ryan will sing 3 arias by Purcell, Handel and Bach. Enquiries can be made at the College office, 208 9060, or Please support our advertisers – they help www.stpetersgore.school.nz make The Tablet possible.

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11 The Tablet May 2014 Moments with a saint... When extending a welcome to Pope John Paul II, on the occasion of his visit to New Zealand in 1986, the first by a Bishop of Rome, Thomas Cardinal Williams referred to it as “..an occasion of great significance for the Catholic people of New Zealand.” It certainly was. The theme for the visit was “Peace: The Message of the Gospel,” which reflected well the Pope’s own concern for peace. Many remembered his visit here in 1973 as Cardinal Karol Wojtyla. This time he came as Pope, but, as he stressed, he came as a brother to the New Zealand bishops, sharing with them their call to be pastors. His position as pontiff was primus inter pares (first among equals.) His visit had a lasting effect for good.

Bishop Len Boyle presenting a gift on behalf of the diocese to Pope John Paul II on the occasion of an ad limina visit to Rome. On the occasion of the Pope’s 1986 visit to New Zealand, Bishop Len said, “I am certain the coming of Pope John Paul will imprint firmly on our minds what he really is - A true pastor to all.”

Like the editor, many will have treasured photographs of the moment they received communion at Lancaster Park.

Bishop Colin Campbell was ordained Bishop 9 July 2004. He joined the other New Zealand bishops in September 2004 for their ad limina visit to Rome. The photo shows him meeting with Pope John Paul II and discussing matters of common interest.

12 May 2014 The Tablet Eighty-six Bishops assemble in ... Twenty years after the inaugural As- sembly was held in 1994 in , the Assembly of the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oce- ania has taken place in Wellington this week. It has been a unique time of prayer, fellowship, reflection and dis- cussion on topics which are of concern throughout this region. The Assembly takes place every four years in a differ- ent part of Oceania. The eighty-six bish- ops in Wellington for the event repre- sented Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, the countries of the Pacific and Australia and New Zealand. Pope John XXIII signing the decree calling Vatican II. “The Oceania Assembly is a valuable opportunity for collegial support among the Bishops of this part of the world,” said Bishop Colin Campbell. The Assembly began with a powhiri and opening Mass in the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Wellington. During the week, Bishops visited the Home of Compassion where they learnt about Suzanne Aubert, founder of the Sisters of Compassion, and the work of the Sisters in the wider community. Another Mass was held at St Patrick’s College, Kilbirnie, where students from all the Colleges of the Archdiocese represented their school communities. Through these liturgical celebrations and interactions, something of the life of the Church here in New Zealand was able to be shared with those from other countries of the area. Workshops covered topics about developing young people with Catholic hearts and minds, faith amid secularity, and living not for ourselves but for others. The theme throughout was evangelisation in the spirit of Pope Francis. Much of the spirit of these formal and informal conversations came from Pope Francis’ inspiring exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, The Joy of the Gospel.

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Priests’ Jubilees 2014 Congratulations from parishioners and friends. Please remember in your prayers the following priests who celebrate special jubilees this year. 50 years: Father Hill Father Maurice White 40 years: Father Mervyn Hanifin Father Wayne Healey Father Kevin Morton 25 years: Father Michael Dooley 10 years as Bishop: Bishop Colin Campbell

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ST MARY’S PARISH BLENHEIM SESQUICENTENNIAL At Labour Weekend 2014 St Mary’s Parish, Blenheim, will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the current Church. A range of activities will be offered during the month of October, leading up to the full Programme and Information celebrations over Labour Weekend. details available from: Outlying churches at Renwick, Picton, Havelock and the Awatere will be [email protected] included. or check the website: Former parishioners, clergy and www.interfaith.org.nz religious who would like more information are invited to contact the parish on – [email protected], Phone 03-578 0038.

ST BRIGID’S PRIMARY SCHOOL Southland Catholic Tainui Parish, Dunedin 75th Jubilee Sesquicentennial Friday – Sunday 24 – 26 May 2014 To register for the Saturday Night Dinner please email: [email protected].

REMEMBERING THE CHURCH IN YOUR WILL When you leave a bequest to the Church, you give a gift that lasts longer than your lifetime; a gift that will always be remembered. Planning for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the A bequest to the Church may be a specific amount, or a establishment of the Catholic Parish of Southland is underway. percentage of your estate, or a particular item of value. Big or small, your bequest will be greatly appreciated. It is intended that this will be centred on Labour Weekend, 25 – 26 October 2014. If you have an existing Will, with the help of your legal advisor, you can make a simple modification to it. This marks the date of the opening of the first Church in Clyde Street in Invercargill. Registrations are not open yet, but Sample wording for a bequest expressions of interest can be made to: [email protected] “...to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin for the time or to P.O. Box 837, Invercargill 9840. being, to use for the general purposes of the diocese as he sees fit, I give and bequeath...” More information to follow

15 The Tablet May 2014 The Diocese of Dunedin has special links with Saint John Paul II, as this 1979 extract from the files of The Tablet records. From the Archives: The Tablet Wednesday June 13, 1979 What Bishop Kavanagh’s presence in Poland signifies The presence of Bishop Kavanagh, of Dunedin, in the Pope’s party on John Paul II’s historic Polish visit was a reminder of the universality of the Church

Bishop Kavanagh told The Tablet this Church with the just before he left Dunedin. Bishop of Rome and The invitation for a New Zealand Bish- the Vicar of Christ on op to go to Poland for the papal visit earth, and as witness was received at the recent meeting of that Our Lord’s the New Zealand bishops. It came from injunction that His the Polish bishops. teachings be carried The Bishops nominated Bishop to the uttermost parts Kavanagh, not only because he has of the earth was being been serving as President of their carried out. conference since the death of Cardinal But, even more Delargy, but for two other reasons important perhaps, which they considered important. was their vision of Bishop Kavanagh told us: “In asking the Church as a family me to go, the bishops were very embracing all men conscious of the fact that I head the wherever they may diocese which is farthest in the world be. In this respect they from Rome. They had in mind, too, were conscious too, of such simple things as the fact that I was my association during the first bishop ever to set foot on the the Second World War with the 700 The way in which those children Antarctic continent. displaced children who were brought were taken in still stands as one of They saw my going as demonstrating here by the New Zealand Government New Zealand’s proudest moments. the solidarity of the New Zealand under the late Peter Fraser. You know, those children taught us all something. They came here torn from their Polish homeland and their families by war. They stuck together. They loyally supported each other. They lived their faith and they showed us what the concept of family really meant. 8=;B=HM New Zealand was enriched as they IB9F5@ 9FJ=79G grew up, became citizens and the : ÛG parents of a new generation,” the Bishop said. Dz”‘˜‹†‹‰ƒˆ—‡”ƒŽ•‡”˜‹ ‡ –Šƒ–‹••’‡ ‹ƒŽ–‘›‘—dz The Tablet is published by the Roman Catholic Diocese of ‡Ž‡’Š‘‡ǣȋͲ͵ȌͶͺ͹ͺ͸ͲͲͲ Dunedin, 300 Rattray Street. ƒ‹Žǣƒ†‹̷†‹‰‹–›Ǥ ‘Ǥœœ Dunedin. ͳͺ͵‹††Ž‡–‘‘ƒ†ǡ—‡†‹‡†‹ Mail address: Private Bag 1941 Dunedin ™™™Ǥ†‹‰‹–›Ǥ ‘Ǥœœ 9054. Phone (03) 474 1994.

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