Join us as we begin another grace-filled year of youth ministry with our Young Leaders’ Commissioning Mass! Monsignor Bernard Kiely will be celebrating the mass and commissioning our young leaders as they are sent out for ministry in 2024. If you’re a youth ministry leader or young adult ministry leader, you’re an essential part of ...
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Want to know what happened at the Synod in October? Everyone is invited to join one of the two evening Zooms to hear Auckland Vicar for Māori Manuel Beazley, St Joseph’s Levin parish Priest Fr Dennis Nacorda and Archbishop of Wellington Paul Martin, SM. The three were part of the wider Oceania group from Australia ...
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Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. Lent is the forty days (excluding Sundays) leading up to Easter. The number forty is significant as it refers to Jesus’ forty days in the desert prior to beginning his ministry of teaching. On Ash Wednesday, Catholics and some other Christian denominations receive ashes in the shape ...
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Want to know what happened at the Synod in October? Everyone is invited to join one of the two evening Zooms to hear Auckland Vicar for Māori Manuel Beazley, St Joseph’s Levin parish Priest Fr Dennis Nacorda and Archbishop of Wellington Paul Martin, SM. The three were part of the wider Oceania group from Australia ...
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Today the Church prays with Saint Josephine Bakhita a women captured and enslaved. On 1 October 2000, she was canonized as Saint Josephine Bakhita. She is venerated as a modern African saint, and as a statement against the brutal history of slavery. She has been adopted as the patron saint of modern Sudan and human ...
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6 February is our national day commemorating the first signings of the Treaty of Waitangi – Te Tiriti o Waitangi, in 1840. 'Because of the Christian involvement in its signing and the Church’s mission to bring about a better world we can mark Waitangi as a significant spiritual event and a time to pray for ...
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All are welcome to celebration of Mass in Te Reo Māori and English to pray for our nation as we acknowledge the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840. Miha (Mass) will be celebrated at Whaiora Marae, 14 Ōtara Road, Ōtara beginning with a Pōwhiri at 8.30am on Tuesday 6th February 2024. Following Mass ...
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In 1997, Pope Saint John Paul II instituted a day of prayer for women and men in consecrated life. This celebration is attached to the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord on February 2nd. This Feast is also known as Candlemas Day; the day on which candles are blessed symbolizing Christ who is the light of ...
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Today we remember the first official Mass in New Zealand, at the Poynton family home in Totara Point. All are welcome to the 186th Anniversary of the first mass in Aotearoa at Totara Point, Hokianga, 11am on the 14th January 2024 Main Celebrant Bishop Stephen Lowe. Wherever we are on this special day, may we ...
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Today the diocesan offices reopen after the Christmas break.
Today marks the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord the end of the Christmas season. This feast celebrates the beginning of Jesus' ministry and confirms his identity as the Son of God. Read more about the feast
Today we remember the first disciple Mary who carried the Word. followed the Word and inspires us to do the same. Read more about the history of this feast Mary Mother of God