Queen's honours - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 23 Mar 2014 09:07:17 +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 Queen's honours - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Gardening Sister invested as member of NZ Order of Merit https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/03/25/gardening-sister-invested-member-nz-order-merit/ Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:06:18 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=55891 The gardening sister, Loyola Galvin may have retired but she is still gardening. The nun in her early 90s was invested by Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae in a ceremony at Government House last week. She was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to gardening. For more than 15 years Read more

Gardening Sister invested as member of NZ Order of Merit... Read more]]> The gardening sister, Loyola Galvin may have retired but she is still gardening.

The nun in her early 90s was invested by Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae in a ceremony at Government House last week. She was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to gardening.

For more than 15 years she tended the gardens at Our Lady's Home of Compassion in Island Bay on Wellington's south coast. Surplus vegetables produced in the garden were donated to a soup kitchen which served a hot meal each evening for 60 to 100 people.

She was New Zealand Gardener magazine's gardener of the year in 2008, and a documentary called Gardening With Soul was made about her.

In recent months she has moved to the sisters' retirement complex in Silverstream. Continue reading

Gardening Sister invested as member of NZ Order of Merit]]> 55891 Prison chaplain Marie Roche honoured https://cathnews.co.nz/2011/06/10/prison-chaplain-marie-roche-honoured/ Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:00:08 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=5323

Sister Marie Roche received a civil honour at Queen's Birthday. She becomes a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit after nearly half a century as a nun, including 15 years as Rimutaka Prison's Catholic chaplain. "I am very humbled by it because I look around and see all those wonderful people doing wonderful Read more

Prison chaplain Marie Roche honoured... Read more]]> Sister Marie Roche received a civil honour at Queen's Birthday. She becomes a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit after nearly half a century as a nun, including 15 years as Rimutaka Prison's Catholic chaplain.

"I am very humbled by it because I look around and see all those wonderful people doing wonderful things."

She shrugged off the extraordinary lengths she goes to for prisoners, including driving many of them across the North Island when they are freed. "I do what I need to do."

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