Haere Mai, Welcome
Kia tau te rangimarie ki a koe. Tena koe i nga manaakitanga o te Ariki i runga i a tatou katoa. Ko taku mihi tenei ki a koe.
Peace be with you - and welcome to our website.
As Christians, part of the universal Church, we are called to share the gospel message with all who wish to hear it. Accordingly, we want our website to be a means of making known the good news that God loves us.
Events Calendar
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Saturday 19 May 2012 @ Christ The King Parish, Greers Rd, Burnside
Burnside Branch
50th Anniversary Celebrations, Saturday 19th May, Christ The King Parish, Greers Rd, Burnside.
Interested ex-members please phone: Ngaire Odgers 354 5383, or Judy Walker 357 0951 before Friday 4 May. more»
What's happening?
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Families from around the Diocese converged on Waipara Riverside Park to enjoy fun, friendship, discussion, and prayer on a bright weekend from 13-15th April.
Facilitated by the team at the “John Paul II Centre for Life” and ably assisted by the Diocesan Youth Mission Team, the weekend gave couples an opportunity to network and listen to talks centred on a Catholic view on authentic love, relationships, the meaning of motherhood, and what true manliness really means. more»
Daily Scriptures
Thursday the 17th of May 2012
FROM the Gospel for today [NAB]:
As he blessed them he parted from them and was taken up to heaven. They did him homage and then returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and they were continually in the temple praising God.
Sunday Gospel Reflection
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When did you last encourage someone to consider that God might be calling them to serve as a priest?
This Sunday (“Good Shepherd Sunday”, the Fourth Sunday of Easter) is celebrated throughout the Church as Vocations Sunday.
In a real sense every Sunday of the year is a day of focus on the Christian vocation to live every moment in relationship with Jesus. more»
Latest Updates
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A labour of love and high standards in radio production have won Sounds Catholic the prestigious 2012 NZ Radio Industry Award for best spoken programme in the Community and Access category. The magazine style weekly programme is produced and hosted by Ken Joblin of the Catholic Tertiary Chaplaincy, and can be heard Sundays at Noon, repeated at 10pm and via online podcast.
The winning episode featured highlights from a year of challenges faced by the Christchurch Diocese. At times the sound of an aftershock can be heard during a recording. more»
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Preliminary engineering assessments of Our Lady of Fatima Church (Mairehau) and St Mary and Francis de Sales Church (Rangiora) and the Catholic Social Services building has revealed that all three buildings are earthquake prone. more»
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Works have been completed for ”temporary” solution ensuring that the previously earthquake prone classroom blocks at St Peter's School, Christ the King School, Our Lady of the Assumption School, St Bernadette's School, and St Mary's School (Christchurch) were quickly brought up to a seismic capacity as near as practicable to 67% of the new build standard (nbs). more»
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The Christchurch Diocesan Earthquake Recovery Fund was set up by Bishop Barry Jones to distribute monies donated to him following the earthquake of September 4, 2010 and the subsequent earthquakes. The fund exists to help those people affected by the earthquakes.
The committee appointed by and representing the Bishop has met a number of times and approved a variety of projects. The amount given away to date is almost $100,000 more»
Earthquake
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The Christchurch Diocesan Earthquake Recovery Fund was set up by Bishop Barry Jones to distribute monies donated to him following the earthquake of September 4th, 2010 and the subsequent earthquakes.
Applications are now being invited.
View the goals and criteria and download an application form. more» -
Most churches continue to operate as usual after the various earthquakes.
View a list of the the alternative arrangements where Mass is being celebrated for those churches that are damaged more»
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It has been announced that ACS (NZ) Limited (formerly Ansvar Insurance Limited), will be seeking to put into place a backup scheme.
View the article in the Christchurch Press.
The Diocese meets regularly with the appointed loss adjustor, ACS (NZ) Limited (formerly Ansvar Insurance Limited) and its reinsurance representatives, as it has done since September 2010. more»
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Recently a third earthquake information evening was held for clergy and parish leaders providng the latest information about insurance and the Diocese's strategy regarding earthquake matters.
Following this meeting the notice below has been sent to parishes...
Important Notice – Detailed Engineering Evaluations (DEE) more»