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News Archive 2009Sisters Josephine Caulton and Sister Therese Couderc Nansett celebrated their jubilees in September.
11 December 2009
A new dementia wing at St Joseph’s Home of Compassion, Silverstream, is welcoming patients this month.
11 December 2009
Thursday 26 November 2009, Father Dan Ahern, a Columbian priest, celebrated his last Mass for the Residents and Sisters at the Chanel Home of Compassion Chapel, Suva.
10 December 2009
To celebrate the Year of the Priest the Sisters of Compassion invited the priests of the archdiocese to spend a day at the Home of Compassion
1 December 2009
St Patrick’s Church was packed out last Sunday week to acknowledge a nun the community can be proud to call its own.
30 November 2009
Check out what has been happening in the past year at the Compassion Centre
30 October 2009
A new threshold appeared when I left the ministry at the Compassion Centre in Wellington, after fifteen years, and prepared to head overseas.
18 October 2009
The year 2009 marks the bi-centennary of the birth of Bishop Viard, the first Catholic Bishop of Wellington. Bishop Viard was born in Lyon, France, and came to New Zealand with a group of other French Marist Missionaries in 1839.
18 October 2009
This year the Organising Committee was faced with two huge obstacles, but never faltered and put their trust in the Lord.
1 October 2009
2009 saw a major shift in the date of our Annual Street Day – from November/December to August.
1 October 2009
Sister Rae and the Honourable Prime Minister, John Key opened the South Canterbury’s Community Hospice on 3rd July 2009.
14 August 2009
Suzanne Aubert met the Cure of Ars, the future St. John Marie Vianney, when she was quite young.
11 August 2009
Several hundred people attended the launch on a damp and blustery Wellington evening.
3 August 2009
Interviews with Jessie Munro and Sisters Rae, Margaret Anne, Bernadette Mary and Josephine.
16 July 2009
“More like a private home than a rental” is what many tenants are saying about the pensioner units that Compassion Housing manage in central Upper Hutt, Wellington.
12 July 2009
A Friday evening in Wellington, just on dark and it’s absolutely bucketing down outside. Inside the Soup Kitchen it’s warm and comfortable.
7 July 2009
I decided to include voluntary work in my future travels.
7 July 2009
In spite of the gusty gale force winds, thirty members turned up at the Home of Compassion in Island Bay.
16 June 2009
I feel I have something in common with Mother Aubert who left her country, her family, friends and all those she knew and loved, to come and serve Christ in the poor, the needy and to work among the Maori people of New Zealand.
14 June 2009
There aren’t many people in Wanganui who don’t realise that Hospice Wanganui is situation on Virginia Road in S John’s Hill.
11 June 2009
Sister Anna Maria Shortall has spent sixty years doing exactly what the women in today’s Gospel were commissioned to do, i.e., to tell the disciples that Jesus had been raised.
23 May 2009
Aubert Home of Compassion’s Convent Villa has provided accommodation for its 1000th guest
15 May 2009
For the past three years our residents together with the diversional therapists have created an Anzac wreath for the Whanganui dawn parade on Anzac Day.
15 May 2009
We now have over 7,000 people who have become donors in support of the works of the Sisters.
15 April 2009
Archivists from small holdings, like religious houses, schools, banks, museums and such like, belong to a group called Solo Archivists’ Group (SAG).
9 April 2009
Sister Sue is at home in the footsteps of Suzanne Aubert and James K Baxter and in the seat of the ute, writes Ann Warnock. Photos by Andrew Gorrie.
30 March 2009
The Home of Compassion emerged to win top overall title at the Rest Home Games at Jubilee Stadium last week.
16 March 2009
There was a 21st birthday being celebrated at the Aubert Home of Compassion recently but it wasnt one of the residents.
13 March 2009
Currently in Wellington there is a Power of Portraiture exhibition curated by Erin Griffey, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art History in the Faculty of Arts.
8 March 2009
Am I coming or going? I asked myself that question a few months before I retired from Compassion Centre for ten months Sabbatical.
23 February 2009
Weve all noticed it - doing the weekly shop is a tad more expensive this year, than last.
23 February 2009
Wayne Riggs, a guest & volunteer at the Soup Kitchen, writes about being selected for the Homeless World Cup Soccer Competition:
23 February 2009
The Sisters of Compassion wish to thank Mr Bill Shirer and Chris Wyness for running the Ulcer Clinic for the past eight years.
23 February 2009
The Suzanne Aubert scholarship is offered by the Sisters of Compassion to secondary students who will be undertaking tertiary study at a New Zealand university.
23 February 2009
Sister Rae Berry, Congregational Leader wishes to sincerely thank all Wellingtonians for their generosity on the Homes of Compassion Street Day, held on Friday 5th December.
22 February 2009
Beryl Mary Reid known in Religious life as Sister Mechtilde has just celebrated her 100th birthday.
22 February 2009
Compassionate kids at St Patricks School are learning theyre never to young to give to other people.
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