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‘Hearts’ deals with hot topics

Rowena Orejana — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 20:30:39 +0000

Hearts Aflame 2019 started on January 4 in a spirit of expectation with a weekend retreat themed as “Called”, led by Hearts Aflame “old-boy” Fr Jeremy Palman from Auckland. This year, “Hearts” – as if is commonly called – attracted 95 participants from around the country for the annual 10 days of prayer and formation.

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Hearts focus on vocations and God’s call

Sue Seconi — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:00:49 +0000

Traditionally the Wednesday at Hearts Aflame is set aside to focus on vocations. Each of the guest speakers this year spoke frankly, telling of their initial promptings of being called by God. First up, Christchurch diocese vocations director Fr John O’Connor explained that vocation comes from a Latin word meaning, “to call”. “God is always with

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Hearts Aflame fosters deepening of faith

Sue Seconi — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:30:40 +0000

Hearts Aflame 2018 (Fides et Scientia), held in the beautiful and spacious campus of Nga Tawa Diocesan College in Marton, attracted 90 young adults from all over the country as the summer school marked its 26th year. “Nga Tawa is competitive in terms of financial costs for the facilities we get to use,” said Jemma Brunton

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Spiritual fire burns at 2017 Hearts Aflame

NZ Catholic Staff — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:45:06 +0000

by KEN JOBLIN Scrub fires are an unwelcome, but all too common summer event in Canterbury. However, just before the new year, fire of a spiritual kind engulfed part of Christchurch. Around 80 Hearts Aflame participants converged on Rochester and Rutherford Halls across from the University of Canterbury’s Ilam Campus. While many around Aotearoa saw in the new year in town squares and on

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Changes at Hearts’ helm

Sue Seconi — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 23:35:30 +0000

by SUE SECONI After 11 years as director of Hearts Aflame, Brendon Malone from Christchurch is resigning. Although sad to be leaving and unsure what lies ahead for him, he believes this annual national Catholic summer school enjoys a very positive future. “It is flourishing,” he said. The new director for Hearts Aflame is Jemma

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A 22-year journey to priesthood

Rowena Orejana — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:00:50 +0000

by ROWENA OREJANA AUCKLAND — It took Jeremy Palman 22 years to become a priest, but it was a great joy when he got there. Fr Palman was ordained by Bishop Patrick Dunn on August 9 at St Patrick’s Cathedral, in Auckland. “It was a great joy, it was an enormous joy. Sometimes I tell

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