Happy Easter to you! Your April issue of Tui Motu magazine is in the mail on its way to you.

Easter Messages by Email 12 April — 30 April

If you would like to receive the Tui Motu daily post-Easter messages, sign up on our website or send me an email. The messages are taken from back copies of Tui Motu magazine and, we hope, will provide a little reflective pause and a smile during the Easter season. 

GOOD NEWS! Human Voice to Read Tui Motu for the Blind 

We have just heard that starting with this April issue Blind Low Vision NZ will have a person reading the magazine rather than the synthesised voice. Thank you to Ruth McLay ("Letters to the Editor", TM February 2021) for encouraging readers to ask for this change and to Blind Low Vision NZ for responding so quickly. The human voice process may take a little longer than the machine to complete but it will be worth waiting for.

Dominican Sisters 150 Years in New Zealand

We join all those who have been influenced by the Dominican Sisters over the years as they celebrate the milestone of 150 years in New Zealand. Thank you dear Sisters for your ministry in education and other areas. We still see in you now the spirit of your 10 foundresses all those years ago.

Visit by Leadership Team of Sisters of St Joseph

We were delighted to host three members of the Regional Leadership Team of the Sisters of St Joseph (TM shareholders) on 15 March. They  enjoyed morning tea with our Dunedin volunteers, Judith McGinley the Chair of the TM Board and Elizabeth Mackie former Assistant Editor of TM. Greg Hings was working on the design of the April issue at the time so they were able to see the beginning of the design process.

Books Available 

We have a collection of books which have been reviewed in Tui Motu magazine or collected and are available to anyone who would like one for the price of postage:

Passion Relics and the Medieval Imagination: Art Architecture and Society by Cynthia Hahn.  

Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to start an Essay About Captain Cook by Alice Te Punga Somerville.

The Catholic Boys by Mike Ledingham with brothers Gerard and Chris.

No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani.

The Rosminian Mission: Sowers of the Second Spring by John Michael Hill, IC.

DIY City: the Collective Power of Small Actions by Hank Dittmar.

To Speak the Truth in Love: A Biography of Theresa Kane, RSM by Christine Schenk, CSJ.

A Place at the Table: New Hymns Written Between 2009 and 2013 by Shirley Erena Murray (It has piano/organ music but not guitar chords).

The Stations of the Cross: In Atonement for Abuse and for the Healing of All by Paul Turner, illustrated by Ronald Patrick Raab, CSC, Liturgical Press, 2021.

Send an email if you'd like one. We'll send you an invoice for the postage. We'll distribute the books on a first come basis.

Pronounce Our Name Well

Tui Motu is pronounced "to-e maw-to" and means stitching the islands together.

Do enjoy the Easter issue.