Some photos from the Palmerston North Diocese Formation Weekend held at Arataki in the Hawkes Bay         Photos from the Auckland Formation Day    Photos from the Hamilton (Bay of Plenty) Formation Day                 Out theme this year was:  Celebrating what’s right with the world In his song ‘Cootamundra Wattle’, Australian singer John Williamson says: […]

Kapiti This area is made up from the parishes of Waikanae, Paraparaumu, Otaki and Levin. Once again, we gathered around 11.00am in the foyer of Our Lady of Fatima in Waikanae. Fr Brian began with “The Ordinary Miracle” and invited us all to consider what is good and wonderful in our world, our lives and […]

By Pat Hudson, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Howick This is a follow up article to the story written by Penny & Pat Hudson titled “My Journey as a Passionist Family Group Member” When Penny come home from church one Saturday night and suggested we join a family group at Our Lady Star of the […]

On the 23rd and 24th of May the Passionist Family Group Australasian Directors meeting was held in Sydney. Clive and Frances Bleaken along with Paul and Linda Darbyshire attended as the New Zealand Representatives. They took this opportunity to acknowledge Fr Brian Traynor’s 21 years of PFG Ministry in Aotearoa. Messages from Rob & Lynn […]

This photo of Pearl Hadfield aged 92 at the Hurricanes versus the Stormers match at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington. Pearl (from Johnsonville Uniting Parish) said she had never been to a rugby match so our family group decided we should put that matter to right. We took her to the Hurricanes v Stormers – […]

Johnsonville Uniting Church is enjoying its 11th year in the Passionist Family Group Movement. With 74% of the congregation involved the pastoral care of the parish operates at a high level. Sts Peter and Paul – a short walk down the street, guided us into the PFG and now we enjoy a very special relationship […]

By Penny Hudson, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Howick In 1992 (or was it late 1991) we received some information about Passionist Family Groups at church, I guess to gauge the amount of interest in our Parish of Our Lady Star of the Sea. At that time I was fairly new to the Parish […]

Click here to read Fr Joachim’s profile Auckland Fr Joachim met with the Auckland Parish Co-ordinators and Regional team over lunch on November 8th 2008 after arriving in Auckland for his first visit to New Zealand the previous evening. He was keen to meet the people, and hear how things were going for family groups in the […]

In the August edition of the Marist Messenger Fr. Cahill wrote, “Like all families situations change and so it is with our Church family” He also made the comment, “A Parish should be our second family” I am taking these comments out of context purely because they raised the question in my mind, what is […]