Parish Pastoral Council
Our PPC is a representative body whose primary function is to set the vision and plan to make the life and activity of the parish ever more closely conform to the gospel…
The Catholic Enquiry Centre
The work of the Catholic Enquiry Centre is supported in this parish by a number of parishioners who make an annual donation. Promoters arrange to collect this money and forward it to the CEC office in Wellington who issue a receipt…
Samoan Community
First established March 1978 and since then have been active in the parish.GROUPS OPERATING are the following: Sunday School, Mother’s Club, Choir, Youth, Community….
Social Community
Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Glen Eden is a small and quiet parish from the outside, but with the parishioners that attend every week, we are anything but! With about 50 different languages spoken throughout the parish, we are hugely multi-cultural, and all love to come together and celebrate what an awesome and vibrant parish we are.
The social committee was the brainchild of Fr. David Mullins, our parish priest in 2006…
Housing Operation Support Team
In 1988 the Parish of Our Lady of Lourdes, Glen Eden, responded to the Diocesan Pastoral Council’s plea on behalf of homeless families by purchasing a house at 18 Tahi Terrace.
The house itself was solid but had been badly fire damaged. Glen Eden parishioners worked hard to make it liveable, It was purchased for $80,000 in the name of the Catholic Bishop of Auckland, and a 25 year mortgage was arranged…
Focolare Movement
Founded in Italy in 1943, by Chiara Lubich and her companions who decided to try and live the Gospel values, especially those last words of Jesus. ‘That they may all be one.’ (John 17:21). This movement for unity has now spread to many countries and different Christian Churches…