At the Aotearoa Catholic Youth Festival held on Dec 2nd/3rd the Passionist Charism was well represented.   Fr Erick and Br Luke from Australia were joined by Kiwis Pravin, Catharina, Awatea, Sam and Penelope to promoting all things Passionist:  Vocations, Passionist Family Groups, Passionist Youth and Young Adult retreats, Passionist Sisters, and Passionist Companions.  The […]

I’ve always had a bit of a sceptical eye when it came to saints and devotions to saints. I mean, my prayer life has never really included prayers to the saints asking for intercessions and all of that, nor have I really put much stock in the idea of saints themselves. I remember before I […]

Initial Reflection “Go now, you are sent!” We wanted to respond generally to the three areas (Accompany one another, Peripheries and Marriage and Families) even though we felt our primary focus was Marriage and Families. Our starting point is that Passionist Family Groups have a call to community, a being for others and so, to […]

Passionist Family Groups – St Mary’s Basilica Invercargill Recently the St Mary’s Parish celebrated a Passionist Family Group Mass with members from all groups taking part. Mary-Ellen and John Leen, part of the PFG National Directing team, along with the South Island Directors Murray and Aileen Straight were present at this celebration. Parish Coordinators Dot […]

After Fr Job came to the parish in July 2016, the Parish Council was encouraged to focus on a Pastoral Plan for the Parish with the help of the Diocesan Guidelines for Parish Councils.  As a couple of our Parish Council members had been involved in PFG in other parishes the idea of introducing them […]

After a time lapse of 18 years, Passionist Family groups are back at Pt. Chevalier, a small parish in central Auckland . On Sunday 26th November, the parish community saw the formation of 6 groups under the Co-ordination of a young and enthusiastic couple , Cara and Logan Stuart and their two young daughters. Over […]

The weekend of 9-10 September was very cold and stormy in Auckland but inside Vaughan Park it was warm, gentle and calm as the Auckland Passionist Companions were holding their biennial retreat. This year it was led by Pat McIndoe CP, our very own Kiwi Passionist priest, kindly shared by his parishioners in Blenheim to […]

During the last weekend of April we held our annual PFG day. As always on the Friday we had a session in Waikanae for our PFG members living on the Kapiti Coast. The topics presented by Fr Brian Traynor – Ageing, Modern Marriage, Conscience and Decision making – very relevant topics for today and they […]

On the morning of the 30th April Fr Brian Traynor CP celebrated the masses at St Joseph’s of Upper Hutt and what a wonderful celebration they both were! At the homily red balloons were given out to Parishioners of different age categories and those people were asked to stand at the front and introduce themselves […]

In April this year, an amazing one hundred and fifty people met in St Joseph’s school hall in Nelson. These people represented the 400 plus parishioners and their family members who had indicated an interest in becoming members at the inception of Passionist Family groups in the combined parishes of St Francis of Assisi Stoke, […]