Image: Front page of Catholic Family NZ newsletter.

Recently, I visited a lovely young Catholic family; I had lots of fun making play-dough snowmen with Esther (age 5), Dominic (age 3), and Louis (age 2), while talking to their mum, Therese, about Catholic Family NZ. Geared (as the name suggests) for Catholic families living in New Zealand, it is a quarterly newsletter including inspiring stories, testimonies, fun quotes, and more. Therese has been running this since 2021.

Therese says:

The desire for this little family periodical is to – in the spirit of St Paul, “encourage one another, and build one another up.” (1 Thess. 5:11) Life as Catholic parents is hard and often lonely, as often no one sees the real and daily struggles in the hidden little Mission fields of our homes. The call of the Gospel sets before us a beautiful but often very challenging ideal, of laying down our life like “a grain of wheat” (John 12:23) and living with the trust of a little sparrow in the hands of our Heavenly Father, even when the pressures of life are often relentless and exhausting. Our hope is that these small pages can bring some companionship on the journey towards holiness; with some light and hope from fellow pilgrims, who though they may be geographically far away, are walking exactly the same path, every day.

If you are living in New Zealand, you can sign up for the Catholic Family NZ newsletter by contacting: [email protected]