WelCom November 2019
Challenge 2000’s annual Street Day Appeal is on Thursday 14 November. It’s one of our most important days of the year for receiving financial and non-financial assistance from the community, so we can continue helping young people and families. Challenge 2000 is a Youth and Community Development agency and has served young people in the Church and the wider community for over 30 years. If you can help with our annual Street Day Appeal, please contact Anne Harlow or John Robinson on 04 477 6827 or email info@challenge2000.org.nz or donate directly: (Challenge 2000) 01-0519-0057660-00. For more information go to www.challenge2000.org.nz
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception 8 December
‘As has been the custom for many years an archdiocesan Mass will be celebrated on our diocesan feast day, 7pm, Thursday 8 December, at St Teresa’s Pro-Cathedral, Karori. The archdiocese will again be entrusted to the care of Mary under the title of the Immaculate Conception at this Mass. Parishes are asked to renew that Consecration on the following Sunday, 11 December, at All parish Masses.’ – Cardinal John Dew
Dates and events – what’s on
December 2022
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Pope Francis registers for the next World Youth Day in Lisbon
At the conclusion of the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis registered for the next World Youth Day to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, in August 2023. Assisted and accompanied by Portuguese university students studying in Rome, the Pope tapped his way to becoming the first officially registered pilgrim for World Youth Day.