Liturgy and Prayer
An opportunity for those involved in RCIA ministry to gather for prayer, formation and support. Please register [email protected] On registration those wishing to join via zoom will be sent the link.
Let’s map Auckland City in prayer. Join Christians from throughout Auckland in praying for all people of the diocese. It is simple, it is free, it is powerful. Take a walk and prayer mapping your walk with the app. Do it as an individual, or do it with friends. Pope Francis has dedicated 2024 as a year of prayer. Here is a practical way to participate.
We do not have a lot of “hard facts” of regarding Saint Nicholas. This has not inhibited the Church honouring him in both the Eastern and Western traditions. We do know that Nicholas was a fourth-century bishop of Myra, a city in Lycia, a province of Asia Minor. The best-known story about Nicholas concerns his charity toward a poor man who was unable to provide dowries for his three daughters. Rather than see them forced into prostitution, Nicholas secretly tossed a bag of gold through the poor man’s window on three separate occasions, thus enabling the daughters to be married. …
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Join the GIFT community in praying Christmas Mass.
Join the Good Shepherd Balmoral Community for their family Christmas Mass. NZSL interpreters will be present.
Today marks forty days after Christmas, the end of that liturgical season. Yes despite the adage of 12 nights and take the Christmas tree decorations down the season of Christmas which admittedly and confusingly includes some weeks of Ordinary Time finishes today. Hence the presence of the Vatican’s Christmas decorations remaining up for so long. This day is also known as the Purification of Mary. But, rotate, it’s known as the Meeting of the Lord in the Christian East. The Canticle prayed at Evening Office come from St Luke’s account of this great moment. Forty days after his birth, in keeping …
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