Anglican Diocese of Wellington - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 28 Feb 2022 06:30:17 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Anglican Diocese of Wellington - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 All Saints accepts an olive branch over hearing costs https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/02/28/all-saints-palmerston_north-anglican/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 06:52:57 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=144147 The Anglican church has been granted a $48,000 fees waiver to avoid another divisive hearing with the Palmerston North City Council over plans to preserve the historic All Saints' church building. The Anglican Diocese of Wellington was declined consent to earthquake strengthening and to alter the front of the building after a resource management hearing Read more

All Saints accepts an olive branch over hearing costs... Read more]]> The Anglican church has been granted a $48,000 fees waiver to avoid another divisive hearing with the Palmerston North City Council over plans to preserve the historic All Saints' church building.

The Anglican Diocese of Wellington was declined consent to earthquake strengthening and to alter the front of the building after a resource management hearing early in 2020.

The council then sent it a bill of £268,000 for the total costs of the hearing.

The church has appealed the decision in the Environment Court and lodged an objection to the bill. Read more

All Saints accepts an olive branch over hearing costs]]> 144147 Mobile prayer room gets closer to reality https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/04/12/mobile-prayer-room/ Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:52:36 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=105920 The Anglican diocese of Wellington has procured a second-hand ambulance, and they have a bold vision to turn it into a mobile prayer room for the whole diocese. "Soon, we'll launch a fundraising campaign to get it kitted out and to cover costs, and we'll ask you for your ideas on how to make it Read more

Mobile prayer room gets closer to reality... Read more]]> The Anglican diocese of Wellington has procured a second-hand ambulance, and they have a bold vision to turn it into a mobile prayer room for the whole diocese.

"Soon, we'll launch a fundraising campaign to get it kitted out and to cover costs, and we'll ask you for your ideas on how to make it the best prayer ambulance anyone's ever seen." continue reading

Mobile prayer room gets closer to reality]]> 105920 Bishop Duckworth leads the Anglican charge https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/06/25/bishop-duckworth-leads-the-anglican-charge/ Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:13:06 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=46022

He's been shackled to his children on an anti-slavery march, mistaken for a pimp in seedy Cuba St, and founded a modern monastery. Nikki Macdonald talks to Bishop Justin Duckworth about his colourful past and his greatest challenge yet - revitalising the Anglican Church. By the glow of a candle stub cradled inside a coconut Read more

Bishop Duckworth leads the Anglican charge... Read more]]> He's been shackled to his children on an anti-slavery march, mistaken for a pimp in seedy Cuba St, and founded a modern monastery.

Nikki Macdonald talks to Bishop Justin Duckworth about his colourful past and his greatest challenge yet - revitalising the Anglican Church.

By the glow of a candle stub cradled inside a coconut shell, Justin Duckworth says sorry for letting anxiety and stress get in the way. And at morning prayers the next day, in the tiny chapel he helped build in the foothills of the Tararua Range, the Bishop of Wellington asks God for insight into a difficult problem.

It's a rare glimpse into the weight of the task facing the head of Wellington's Anglican Church, a year on from his surprise election to an erstwhile fusty old boys' club.

The dreadlocked, barefoot bolter who'd lived a life on the edge of society and the church, is now charged with reviving an institution in decline.

If there's one thing the 45-year-old wants to drive home to the church, it's the need to enact their faith and live "peculiar lives". And few could be more peculiar than Duckworth's own - the boy from Stokes Valley turned urban missionary turned modern monastic.

That simple wooden chapel is the centrepiece of Ngatiawa River Monastery, the spiritual community Duckworth and his wife Jenny founded, which has been their home for the past 10 years.

The couple bought the dilapidated old Presbyterian camp, tucked under the hills behind Waikanae, as a refuge for "strugglers, seekers and servants".

It's a place of contemplative quiet, and listening without judgment. Of a thrice-daily rhythm of prayer rung in by an old railway iron. Of communal meals seasoned with laughter. Of home kills, fruit trees, roaming sheep and escaped ginga pigs. Continue reading

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Bishop Duckworth leads the Anglican charge]]> 46022 Bishop Justin will need fancy footwork https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/07/10/bishop-justin-will-need-fancy-footwork/ Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:31:33 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=29254

Cathedral high holy days are like magnificent theatrical productions but you need to be able to see the action to appreciate them. Squashed in just beyond the choir and slightly short of the sanctuary, my view of the ordination of Justin Duckworth, the 11th bishop of Wellington was stymied, so I had plenty of time to muse. Two Read more

Bishop Justin will need fancy footwork... Read more]]> Cathedral high holy days are like magnificent theatrical productions but you need to be able to see the action to appreciate them. Squashed in just beyond the choir and slightly short of the sanctuary, my view of the ordination of Justin Duckworth, the 11th bishop of Wellington was stymied, so I had plenty of time to muse.

Two rows in front of me was a bevy of bishops. Most wore a mitre, the church equivalent of a crown. Lest you think I'm overstating the case, the service had been billed as an enthronement. With that kind of label it's hard to avoid royal overtones, which rather set me to wondering about a Hebrew story and a book about archetypes that I'm reading.
Samuel had a specific role in ancient Israel. He was a judge, a wise person steeped in deep spirituality who took the lead in the country. As Samuel got older, the people decided they were fed up with judges and wanted a king to govern them just like their neighbours had. According to the story, God told Samuel to give the people what they wanted even if the idea was flawed. A rather spacious approach. Read more
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The Rev. Sande Ramage is an Anglican priest and blogger.

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