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News Archive 2007Earlier this year we celebrated the Centenary of Our Lady’s Home of Compassion in Island Bay, Wellington.
15 December 2007
This is what I have been doing in the last eight years. Reaching out to our Maori people in all walks of life in this Ministry.
14 December 2007
For the past 15 years, she’s worked at the Suzanne Aubert Compassion Centre – as manager for eight years.
10 December 2007
Rex McArley, benefactor and friend, came into the life of the Sisters of Compassion at a time when great changes were taking place in the management of the Congregation.
12 October 2007
For the past 13 years, there has been a Catholic Worker house of hospitality in Christchurch named after Suzanne Aubert.
12 October 2007
Tables were turned on volunteers from the Compassion Centre Soup Kitchen when they were treated to a night out by Holiday Inn.
12 October 2007
Podiatrist, Linda Evans started this service in June 2000, and it still operating out of the Newtown Union Health Services.
12 October 2007
Our annual Street Day is on Friday 7th December this year.
12 October 2007
Wellington's Sisters of Compassion were seeking to rationalise their activities into one central location.
16 September 2007
While living in Rome during 1913-1919, Suzanne Aubert initially lived with the Sisters of Sion. They had to ask her to vacate her room when their own Sisters started arriving in Rome from war zone areas.
13 August 2007
The Sisters of Compassion are looking for a lay person to manage the Compassion Centre with the imminent departure from the position of Sr Margaret Mary.
13 August 2007
Have a look at www.inspirationaltv.net, you will find daily quotations from Kilian deLacy’s booklet “Compassion Kiwi Style”.
27 July 2007
All I wanted was to get married and have lots of children. My father's response was I would have to learn to cook and sew so I could be a good wife and mother.
10 July 2007
The St Vianney's Timaru Trust is donating $500,000 towards the new purpose-built hospice.
6 July 2007
In 1892 Frenchwoman Suzanne Aubert came to the Whanganui River and was taken to Kaiwhaiki and on to Jerusalem by the Sisters of St Joseph.
6 July 2007
A Wanganui doctor of medicine has won an aged care professional development grant for 2007.
28 June 2007
Two postage stamps commemorating Home of Compassion’s centenary were released this week. The 50c and $1.50 stamps honour 100 years of the work of the Home of Compassion and its founder Suzanne Aubert, who established the home in 1907 to care for orphaned children or those who were severely disabled.
22 June 2007
“I wasn’t born with a pencil in my hand...but my first job was in an advertising agency and there, I fell in love with illustrating.”
22 June 2007
A spring, a well and a historic reservoir.
22 June 2007
Government House has a special atmosphere and elegance about it and walking into the English style building with its plush furnishings and chandeliers makes one feel really special as anyone will tell you.
12 June 2007
One hundred years ago, Suzanne Aubert had to get a reservoir built on the hillside beyond the Home of Compassion, where there was a spring, because the town water supply only came as far as Beramphore.
29 May 2007
‘O let all who thirst – let them come to the water
And let all who have nothing – let them come to the Lord’. 28 May 2007
A nun who has called Island Bay home for the past 46 years will be at the door to greet colleagues and former residents of the Home of Compassion when they return for this weekend’s centenary celebrations.
24 April 2007
Sister Margaret Anne Mills never thought clowning around was part of a nun’s duty, but her impromptu performance gets the thumbs-up from Peter Havell, 8, of Oriental Bay.
23 April 2007
A recent hip replacement isn’t going to stop a former resident of Island Bay Home of Compassion from attending centenary celebrations this month.
15 April 2007
Speech by the Governor-General of New Zealand - The Honourable Anand Satyanand, opening of Compassion House, Lukes Lane, Wellington on 23rd February 2007
2 April 2007
The restoration and conservation work on 100-year-old Gothic style St Joseph’s Church and old convent at Jerusalem is now finished.
20 March 2007
At the end of September Sisters Margaret Anne Mills and Josephine Gorman, travelled to Rome to meet with people from the Congregation of Saints to help promote the cause for beatification of the Servant of God Suzanne Aubert.
26 February 2007
Looking ahead fifty years is such a long time, but looking back it is only a flash. Golden Jubilee is such a special occasion in one’s life.
26 February 2007
“Jubilee” – a time of gratitude, of recalling and reliving memories.
26 February 2007
Our Wellington Street Day in early November was another resounding success.
26 February 2007
The purchase and refurbishing of Compassion House for community groups in the inner City.
26 February 2007
'Much of the work the brothers did - setting type, inking, drying paper, stitching, binding and more - was repetitive, but also fairly gentle. In all the activity that they were engaged in, there would have been time for contemplation within their busy-ness.'
7 February 2007
Evan Renall, a longtime friend of the Sisters in Carterton enjoyed catching up with the Sisters in Auckland in December 2006.
30 January 2007
Since she was 12, the Home of Compassion in Suva has been her home. I caught up with Agnes at the home last Friday while she was enjoying a cup of Milo and a pie.
30 January 2007
For someone so old, it amazes me how much she can still remember, like her birthday. Without thinking she said, “I’m 85, I will be 86 on December 29. I was born in 1921.”
30 January 2007
At the Home of Compassion in Suva, there’s laughter and smiles to last you a lifetime.
30 January 2007
This is Bernadette Aichieson a resident at the Home of Compassion in Suva.
Her wrinkled face, missing teeth, grey hair and bent back are evidence of old age. But when you get to know her, you’ll understand what ‘young at heart’ really means. 30 January 2007
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