Latest parish news from Saint Matthew's Catholic Church, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Retreat Presentation
by Fr Dominique Faure
Sunday 14th September 2008, 2:00 to 6:00 pm @ St Matthew’s Church
Topic: "The Importance of the Experience of Friendship".
Presenter: Fr Dominique Faure, of the Community of St John.
Fr Dominique is a renowned international preacher who was chosen by Mother Teresa to give retreats for her sisters. Now working in India with people suffering from HIV/Aids and orphans whose parents died of the disease, Fr Dominique is in New Zealand giving a series of talks and retreats.
Fr Dominique is a priest of the Community of St John, who has a wonderful gift for theology and philosophy. Mother Teresa asked him personally to take care of the spiritual formation of her contemplative sisters, which takes up much of his apostolate around the world. He lives in India, where he founded a house of his community, which is an AIDS orphanage and hospital. (He is looking for volunteers for it too, if anyone is interested!). He also founded houses of the brothers of St John in the Philippines and in the States. The order is a new one, (about 33 years old), founded by Fr Marie Dominique Philippe, a French Dominican.
He was a wonderful philosopher and theologian, and a close friend of Pope John Paul II. His students gathered around him and asked if he would form them into an order. Since then it has grown to include three branches: the Brothers of St John, which has about 600 priests and brothers (with a healthy 15-20 young new vocations per year!), the contemplative sisters and the apostolic sisters, which between them have similar numbers. The order is devoted to the search of the truth and the putting of it in the service of love for the Church. They open their lives in particular to the 'three wisdoms' - philosophical wisdom, theological wisdom and infused graced wisdom.
Link: www.stjean.com
Other Venues and Dates where Fr Faure will be speaking:
Saturday 13th September 2008 at St Joseph’s, Clarkin Road, Hamilton
2:00 to 6:00 PM , followed by a pot luck tea.
Topic : Living the Beatitudes
Monday 15th September 2008 at St Mary’s, 114 Elizabeth Street, Tauranga
At 7:30 PM.
Topic : Love of the Church and Trust of the Church
For more information, please contact
Bruce and Elizabeth Fraser-Jones (07) 858 2954
Sunday 14th September 2008, 2:00 to 6:00 pm @ St Matthew’s Church
Topic: "The Importance of the Experience of Friendship".
Presenter: Fr Dominique Faure, of the Community of St John.
Fr Dominique is a renowned international preacher who was chosen by Mother Teresa to give retreats for her sisters. Now working in India with people suffering from HIV/Aids and orphans whose parents died of the disease, Fr Dominique is in New Zealand giving a series of talks and retreats.
Fr Dominique is a priest of the Community of St John, who has a wonderful gift for theology and philosophy. Mother Teresa asked him personally to take care of the spiritual formation of her contemplative sisters, which takes up much of his apostolate around the world. He lives in India, where he founded a house of his community, which is an AIDS orphanage and hospital. (He is looking for volunteers for it too, if anyone is interested!). He also founded houses of the brothers of St John in the Philippines and in the States. The order is a new one, (about 33 years old), founded by Fr Marie Dominique Philippe, a French Dominican.
He was a wonderful philosopher and theologian, and a close friend of Pope John Paul II. His students gathered around him and asked if he would form them into an order. Since then it has grown to include three branches: the Brothers of St John, which has about 600 priests and brothers (with a healthy 15-20 young new vocations per year!), the contemplative sisters and the apostolic sisters, which between them have similar numbers. The order is devoted to the search of the truth and the putting of it in the service of love for the Church. They open their lives in particular to the 'three wisdoms' - philosophical wisdom, theological wisdom and infused graced wisdom.
Link: www.stjean.com
Other Venues and Dates where Fr Faure will be speaking:
Saturday 13th September 2008 at St Joseph’s, Clarkin Road, Hamilton
2:00 to 6:00 PM , followed by a pot luck tea.
Topic : Living the Beatitudes
Monday 15th September 2008 at St Mary’s, 114 Elizabeth Street, Tauranga
At 7:30 PM.
Topic : Love of the Church and Trust of the Church
For more information, please contact
Bruce and Elizabeth Fraser-Jones (07) 858 2954
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Nativity of Our Lady celebrations
on Sunday 7th September 2008, 3 pm
at St Matthew's Church
Silverdale Road, Hamilton. New Zealand.
You can take part in our Spiritual Bouquet to Our Blessed Mother by offering "A Decade A Day" of the Rosary between now and the end of October 2008.If you are outside the Hamilton area, you can email us your Spiritual Bouquet offering and your Prayer Intentions - Petitions and Thanksgivings messages.
During the Celebration on 7th September, the Spiritual Bouquet together with all Prayer Intentions will be offered to Our Lady.
During the Celebration on 7th September, the Spiritual Bouquet together with all Prayer Intentions will be offered to Our Lady.
Subsequently, all the Prayer Intentions will be included in the weekly Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help at St Matthew's.
When emailing your Prayer Intentions, please mark as 'Private' any intention you do not wish to be read out.
Email your Spiritual Bouquet and Prayer Intentions to: Novena.StMatthewsHLZ@gmail.com
Please indicate your name and city/country, if you wish.
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