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News Archive 2005To organic gardener Sister Loyola Galvin, compost is a meditation about ongoing life. As well as feeding a community of twenty sisters, the gardens at Wellington’s Home of Compassion provide sustenance of a spiritual kind, she says.
1 December 2005
Wellington Street Day was a resounding success. As in past years, the appeal was again strongly supported by Wellingtonians, who were in a very generous mood in their support of the Sisters.
1 December 2005
Compassion and support for the disadvantaged in our communities will be the order of the day for the Annual Sisters of Compassion Wellington Street Appeal on Thursday 10 November
5 November 2005
Whilst in Jerusalem in August, members of the Leadership Team took the opportunity to meet with Keith Murray, project manager for the Conservation project of the Convent and Church at Jerusalem and to catch-up “first-hand” on progress with the project.
14 September 2005
On 13 August the Leadership Team and support staff travelled to Jerusalem and were formally welcomed on to the local Marae by representatives of the Marae Komiti. The Sisters and Komiti members spent some time talking about the future involvement of Sisters at Jerusalem and the dreams and wishes of the Komiti for the future of Jerusalem.
20 August 2005
In anticipation of the canonisation and the continued interest of the New Zealand Public in everything relating to Suzanne Aubert, we made a decision to upgrade our archives.
14 August 2005
So far this year we have acquired 560 new donors following our donor acquisition flyers in the WelCom and Marist Messenger publications in August, which is a significant way towards the goal of 1,000 new donors set by the Leadership Team at the beginning of the year. Since starting our donor programme in July 2002, about 4,500 people have become donors in support of the works of the Sisters.
14 August 2005
Vascular surgeon Bill Shirer and clinical nurse wound specialist Chris Wyness are continuing to help a significant number of people in the Wellington area who have leg ulcers that are not healing with traditional treatment methods.
27 July 2005
Making a good compost heap is a bit like making a cake, says environmental educator Elly Eaton; the aim is to make a delicious environment for worms, which ends up as great food for plants.
23 July 2005
Last year the sisters worked with Sister Patricia Hannan OP gathering information on the life of Suzanne Aubert. A week long inquiry was held at the Home of Compassion during which, some people whose families had a special connection with Suzanne Aubert during her lifetime, were interviewed and also others whose work has meant that they had useful knowledge of her.
14 July 2005
2005 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of Rotary International by Paul Harris. This significant service club which began in the United States, soon moved to many countries around the globe and twenty years later the first Rotary club in New Zealand was established in Central Wellington.
18 June 2005
As one of the outcomes of our General Chapter 2005 I now find myself at Island Bay, Wellington after an absence of some 26 years! As the newest addition to the Leadership Team my life at present is shot through with creative chaos and challenge - yet, full of the promise of growth, learning and adventure!
14 June 2005
The Wellington People's Centre is about to take on a new lease of life, with the help of some divine intervention from the Sisters of Compassion.
5 May 2005
It was with a spirit of joy and expectation that sixty-four Sisters of Compassion and their support team, gathered at the beautiful and spacious El Rancho at Waikanae on Monday 11th April for the 2005 General Chapter of the Congregation.
21 April 2005
Bishop Peter Cullinane visited the Wanganui Pastoral Area on Wednesday 23 February for the commissioning of the two chaplain's based at Kaitoke Prison.
13 April 2005
Sr Ema Konokono joined the Compassion Centre in September of 2005. Immediately prior to that she accompanied a group of 95 New Zealand young people to the World Youth Day with Pope Benedict in Cologne. Here is her account of that trip.
21 March 2005
This year the Governor General offered us the opportunity to hold a dinner at Government House. The Sisters chose to use this as another way of saying thank you to the supporters of their work in Wellington.
21 March 2005
Depending on which the way the wind blows, up and/or down the valley, there is, these days, more than the sound of the angelus ringing and the birds singing! There is the slow grind of a “metal crusher”.
14 March 2005
A group of dedicated Loreto Home of Compassion residents have made more than 6,494 Rosary Beads since September 2002. How did the residents learn to make Rosary Beads?
14 March 2005
In 1998 the Tongan Community asked Sister Sia to help them with their religious programs, including giving retreats. Sister was officially appointed by Cardinal Thomas Williams to this ministry in 2000. Recently Sister Sia was appointed by the Sisters of Compassion to work in Wairoa and to assist her in her ministry there she completed a Pastoral Ministry Program.
14 March 2005
Recently the Sisters of Compassion hosted a French film crew from Paris who were making a documentary on “The Story of Suzanne Aubert”.
14 March 2005
Graeme Allwright, a New Zealander who became a famous French singer/songwriter is touring New Zealand and performing his own songs (in English and in French).
14 March 2005
Excited by Sue Cosgrove's vision of Jerusalem as a place of pilgrimage, peace and retreat, I traveled up from Wellington to explore ways I could help raise awareness and funds. I booked when she could have time to talk. However life at Jerusalem has a way of spontaneously unfolding.
14 March 2005
Since January 2000 I have been part of the team of sisters, lay staff and volunteers at the Suzanne Aubert Compassion Centre. As well as duties in the kitchen and dining room for breakfast and dinner, I co-ordinate our Outreach Visiting Programme to elderly and isolated people in the city. This has involved training several volunteers for the programme. I regularly visit agencies and drop in centres where I meet guests from the Centre.
14 March 2005
When I came back to Suva I was looking at working with remedial classes. I was interested in schools that worked with children who had dropped out of classes. I was in the process of meeting up with the head teacher of one such school when I met up with a teacher who had been working on the Religious Education material at the Catholic Education Centre. This teacher had a teaching job to go to and she encouraged me to take on the work at the Catholic Education Office, as she had a hunch that I would see the process through.
14 March 2005
In 1883, Bishop Redwood invited the Sisters of St Joseph to assist Father Soulas SM in re-establishing the Maori mission on the Whanganui River. The original mission, started by Fr Lampila SM, had been devastated by the Hau Hau Wars in 1864. Sisters Teresa and Aloysius were appointed to teach school on the Mission and Suzanne Aubert accepted the invitation to assist them.
27 February 2005
On 20 January 2005, over 340 women and men religious will gather at St. Catherine's college, Wellington to celebrate the first ever National Conference for Religious of Aotearoa New Zealand. Included in this number are Religious from Australia, East Timor and the Islands of Fiji and Tonga.
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