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National Calendar 2024
Readings: Sundays Year B Weekdays Year II
Mary, Holy Mother of God
1 Jan
World Day of Peace
14 Jan
Mass celebrated at Totara Point…
National Calendar 2023
Readings: Sundays Year A Weekdays Year I
Mary, Holy Mother of God
1 Jan
World Day of Peace
8 Jan
Mass celebrated at Totara Point…
Apostolic Letter "Desiderio Desideravi" of the Holy Father Francis
Pope Francis has written the Apostolic Letter Desiderio Desideravi to recall the profound meaning of Eucharistic celebrations as they emerged…
Joyful pandemic-inspired rededication of country to Mary Assumed into Heaven
Mary is not a magician, Cardinal John Dew quipped when giving the homily at the Mass to rededicate Aotearoa New…
Church to renew Bishop Pompallier’s dedication of Aotearoa New Zealand to Our Lady Assumed into Heaven
All the country’s Catholic bishops will gather in Wellington on Sunday 15 August for a Mass to renew Bishop Pompallier’s…
Bishops seek artist to create special 2021 Mary dedication work
Aotearoa New Zealand’s Catholic bishops are seeking an artist to create a work commemorating Bishop Jean-Baptiste Pompallier’s 1838 dedication of…
Sunday Reflection: Weekend of 23 December 2018
Luke 1:39-44Mary set out and went as quickly as she could to a town in the hill country of Judah.
29. Can Sinners Belong
When Jesus invited Simon Peter to be one of his closest companions, Peter objected because he felt unworthy: “depart from…
24. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
In the early chapters of this book you reflected on how everything looks different when you know how to see…
14. You and the Common Good
So what is the role of government? If the dignity of every person really is paramount, then the proper role…
13. In the Marketplace
Are you in danger of being used, or of using others? In the context of social and economic life, individualism…
2. Two Ways of Seeing
When you look out on the world at the beginning of each new day, there are two ways of seeing…
Sunday Reflection: Weekend of 25 June 2017
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time | Year A
Matthew 10:26-33So do not be afraid of them.
Former Christchurch Bishop John Cunneen dies
Bishop Emeritus of the Catholic Diocese of Christchurch, John Cunneen, died peacefully on 9 November at Nazareth House, aged 78,…
Message of Pope Benedict XVI for Lent 2011
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS
BENEDICT XVI
FOR LENT 2011
“You were buried with him in baptism,
in which you were also raised with…
Two Auckland students to meet Pope tomorrow morning
Two year 13 students from Auckland have just received the exciting news that they will be meeting Pope Benedict XVI…
Catholic churches around New Zealand remember Christchurch one year on from earthquake
Tomorrow Catholic churches around New Zealand will remember and pray for those who died, were injured or have suffered as…
And the Mother of Jesus was there
24 May 1988
The first words of St.
The Church in Jubilee
Greetings
We greet you all as we prepare together to celebrate the Jubilee Year 2000 AD.
Crime and Punishment Debate
New Zealand has the dubious distinction of having the second highest rate of imprisonment among developed countries.
What is the Church saying today about marriage and marriage difficulties?
A letter from the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference February 2006
"Therefore as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe…
A Shoreless Ocean
A Pastoral Reflection on Suffering
“Suffering is a shoreless ocean
that surged in on Jesus tide after tide”.
To the Young Adults of the Catholic Church in New Zealand
There can be no Church without you, just as there can be no New Zealand without you.
Towards Priesthood
He now went up onto the mountain and summoned those he wanted.