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Sr Joan Parker celebrates her Golden Jubilee of Religious Profession
At the College Mass on Friday 19 August the students and staff of Good Shepherd honoured Sr Joan Parker RNDM on her 50 years of life as a religious.
Public Lecture
Reading the Bible in the Time of Father Colin and Bishop Pompallier
How the Bible was being understood at the time of the foundation of the New Zealand Church.
Monday 1 August, 7:30-8:30 pm at the College, 20 Ponsonby Road
Fr Justin Taylor SM, is retiring Professor of New Testament at the Ecole Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem.
He is author of
The Origins of Christianity (1998)
and
Where did Christianity Come From?
(2001).Admission Free
Msgr Brendan Daly Lecturing in Vietnam
Good Shepherd College's principal, Msgr Brendan Daly, (the tall one in the front row) has just returned from a month of lecturing on Canon Law to the seminarians of the Catholic Diocese of Vinh
Another Quake Fundraiser - Sat 16 April
Quake Fundraiser by GSC Students
Some GSC students took part in a Ponsonby Road Busker Appeal for victims of the recent calamities in Christchurch and Japan. Thanks to everyone who kept us in their prayers and sent donations in cash or in kind. There was wonderful singing and street dancing while appealing for help from passers-by. According to Victor Resano, "We encountered Jesus in some interesting people and one of them is a lady who prayed, sang with us, left her scarf and hat, wept as she exclaimed "keep up the good fight"." All proceeds have been forwarded to the New Zealand Red Cross.
Coadjutor Bishop for Palmerston North
VATICAN CITY, 22 FEB 2011 – The Holy Father appointed Msgr. Charles Drennan of the clergy of Christchurch, New Zealand, diocesan chancellor, as coadjutor of the diocese of Palmerston North (area 36,200, population 470,000, Catholics 59,099, priests 58, religious 141), New Zealand. The bishop-elect was born in Christchurch in 1960 and ordained a priest in 1996.
Msgr Charles also lectured at Good Shepherd College for a semester in 2002.
30 April 2010
The Patronal Feast Day Mass was celebrated at the College with Bishop Colin Campbell of Dunedin , as the main celebrant and preacher. In his sermon he encouraged the congregation, and particularly the seminarians, to foster the pastoral gifts that were offered them by the Holy Spirit of Christ. (Click for the text of the Sermon)
26 March 2010
The Principal of Good Shepherd College is visiting the National Seminary in Vietnam and the Catholic Diocese of Vinh website has these images among other photos of the Mass of the Oils.
Monsignor Brendan is on the left below the image of the Good Shepherd
1 May 2009
The Patronal Feast Day Mass was celebrated at the College with the Marist Provincial, Fr Brian Cummings, as the main celebrant and preacher. In his sermon he summed up something of the hopes that the Trustees of the College (the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference and the Provincial Council of the Marists) are putting in the College and its students. (Click for the text of the Sermon)
A distance student of Good Shepherd College, who is a highly skilled communicator (she ran Connect.org - the website that followed up on World Youth Day pilgrims) has set out for Africa.
Why she is there and what she is up to can be found by reading her blog: Lucy In Africa
For those who want to see what she is seeing her photos can be found on www.flickr.com/lucyellis
A distance student of Good Shepherd College, who is a Carmelite sister living in their Christchurch convent, has been interviewed in a series of short clips which are now available on YouTube. Clicking on the links below will take you to them:
Distance Learning is approved by NZQA! - click here for details!
The death of Jeremy Gray SM
Jeremy William John Gray
27/4/1978 - 2/1/2008
Good Shepherd College joins the family and friends of Jeremy in mourning his sudden death. Jeremy has been one of the top students of the College and we had anticipated his returning for another year of study in 2009. We will miss him and we pray for the repose of his soul.
Here is the homily preached in New Caledonia by Fr Grossin, Jeremy's director.
Clicking this link will take you to the NZ Herald account of his passing.
