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Suzanne Aubert Day in October

NZ Catholic Staff — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:30:06 +0000

The Sisters of Compassion and the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference have announced the first Sunday of October as a day of celebration for the Venerable Suzanne Aubert. Suzanne Aubert was the founder of the Sisters of Compassion, New Zealand’s only home grown order of sisters. Last year, Pope Francis declared Suzanne Aubert “venerable” —

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Free news on Suzanne’s cause

Michael Otto — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 23:02:02 +0000

by MICHAEL OTTO A new free publication aims to keep Kiwi Catholics up to date with the latest developments in the cause for sainthood of Mother Suzanne Aubert. The first edition of the Suzanne Aubert News was issued in July. John Bergin of Auckland is responsible for the writing and production. He said it is

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Rugby ‘doco’ kicks for effect

Nevil Gibson — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 23:15:23 +0000

by NEVIL GIBSON At their best, fly-on-the-wall documentaries reveal more about their subjects than they would admit, while also reinforcing their own self-beliefs. Kiwi husband and wife team Christopher Pryor and Miriam Smith achieved this with How Far is Heaven (2012), about the Sisters of Compassion at Jerusalem in a remote part of the Whanganui

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L’Arche Kapiti celebrates multiple milestones

Michael Otto — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:54:27 +0000

by KILIAN DE LACY PARAPARAUMU — Stepping into a L’Arche community is a special experience. There is a warmth, a simplicity and a kinship that attract the visitor. The spirit of the movement’s founder, Jean Vanier, who maintained that those who live and work among people with intellectual disabilities have their hearts changed, was evident.

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New entity hoped for from Aubert Home’s closure

Sue Seconi — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:25:44 +0000

by SUE SECONI WANGANUI — About 450 friends, religious sisters, former staff and others associated with the Aubert Home of Compassion in Wanganui gathered around the altar of St Mary’s Church for a Mass of Thanksgiving on September 29. It was with heartache that the Sisters of Compassion decided in March that the home would

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Three Sisters feature in new NZ film

Michael Otto — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 05:38:07 +0000

by PETER GRACE HIRUHARAMA — A New Zealand film released on August 23 focuses on three Sisters of Compassion and the local community at Jerusalem (Hiruharama) on the Whanganui River. How Far is Heaven? was filmed over 12 months during 2010-2011. Hiruharama is on a back road almost 70 kilometres out of Wanganui. Mother Suzanne

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Priest praying for a miracle cure

Michael Otto — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:00:00 +0000

CHRISTCHURCH Fr Paul Duncan is on a mission for a miracle. Fr Duncan, a priest of Christchurch diocese, is suffering from two separate forms of inoperable cancer and has a life expectancy of one to four years. When the Sisters of Compassion at Island Bay wrote to say they were praying that he be cured

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