ALEXANDRA CATHOLIC PASTORAL AREA

Parish Priest
Rev Fr Vaughan Leslie BTheol, MSPsy
Cell: +642 7385 9615

Phone: +64 3 448 8202
Email: alexcatholic@xtra.co.nz

Presbytery
7 Killarney Street
Alexandra 9320
New Zealand

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Parish Pastoral Council
Chair: Mr Brian Mclean

Finance Committee & Maintenance Group
Chair: Mr Doug Stanaway

Catholic Social Services
0800 277 669 (toll-free)
Phone: +64 3 448 5385

A Must See video for Every New Zealander to view in understanding why abortion is not an option!

Retired Southland doctor Dr Norman MacLean performed up to 200 abortions early in his career, but after a year of performing the abortions and being somewhat uneasy but cooperating with the system, he realised that this is not what he should be doing. It was not the medicine or the life giving, healing medicine that he wanted to practice, and from that day he stopped.

We interviewed Dr MacLean earlier this month, and released it yesterday. The interview was viewed more than 20,000 times in the first 24 hours.

The 17-minute interview covers the truth about the reality of abortion including late term abortions, the risks and harms of abortion to the mother, the importance of the heartbeat, foetal pain, the age of viability, and NZ's close connection to operative procedures performed on the unborn child during pregnancy.

(In 2015, Dr Norman MacLean was named a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit
in the Queens Birthday Honours for services to obstetrics and gynaecology.)

The Nathanial Centre for Bioethics – Talk in Alexandra

Dr John Kleinsman, the Centre’s Director is touring Otago and Southland from 16-20 September. John will be speaking to Catholic schools and parishes about the Nathaniel Centre’s work and why it’s important, as well as some of the current ethical issues on rights to life (abortion and euthanasia).

Tuesday 17 Sep Alexandra Parish & St Gerard’s School: Combined Teachers and Parish session at St Gerard’s School 4:30-6:30pm (held in the classrooms on Station Street). Everyone from the wider community welcome. For more on the Nathanial Centre visit: http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/

ADORATION & BENEDICTION

Weekly Holy Hour—Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament now occurs in the Alexandra church of St John the Baptist each Friday, 11am-Noon (concluding with Benediction at 11:45am). Come along and spend some quiet time in prayer before the Lord.

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