January 2025
Kia ora and greetings,
We hope that you are having a good start into the New Year 2025.
In the Catholic Church, we are celebrating a Jubilee Year, and Pope Francis dedicated it to the theme of Hope, inviting us to be Pilgrims of Hope.
From 24-26 January, the Vatican website has announced that there would be a special focus on the World of Communications.
For Titipounamu Study & Joy, education and communication are at the heart of the initiative that started almost 5 years ago. For more than 10 years, we have been using radio and Internet for interviews on topics relating to social justice, community work, spirituality, religions and beliefs.
We have recently enhanced our channels of communication by adding a new page to our website: News & Opinions. This page will provide some news articles and pictures. All items on this page are informative, balanced, respectful and independent. If you have news that you might like to share with us, please get in touch.
Take a listen to the new Muffin Talk recording Snippets 2024. This video-clip is made up of several short video-clips of interviews that were recorded in 2024.
From February on, we will continue with our online meeting on the first Sunday of the month, in which we discuss and share our thoughts around topics from the Scriptures: “Bible Stories—What do they mean?”. While registration is not necessary, it is helpful. Let us know if you would like to be on the special reminder mail to receive the Zoom links.
We have some new beautiful greeting cards, and our little booklets with reflections on the Stations of the Cross by Bill Verryt are available for you in English, Samoan, German and Fijian.
For more information, interviews and videoclips, please see our website.
If you are on Social Media, follow us on YouTube and Facebook or on our Webfeed so that you don’t miss any new items on our website.
Coming up:
Bible Stories—What do they mean? with Beate Matthies.
Sunday, 02 February 2025, 5-6pm (Zoom). Fee: Koha/Donation.
Incense—A Taste of Heaven? – with Beate Matthies
Monday, 24 February 2025, 7-8pm (Zoom). Koha/Donation.
Our latest YouTube video: Muffin Talk 2024
Beate Matthies—Titipounamu Study & Joy
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Titipounamu Study & Joy is self-funded and independent.
Thank you for you donations towards our work.
