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National Calendar 2025

Readings: Sundays Year C    Weekdays Year I

Mary, Holy Mother of God

1 Jan

World Day of Peace

 

12 Jan

Mass celebrated at Totara Point…

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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…

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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…

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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…

Crop Blessing at door of the church

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…

1 St Mary of the Angels

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…

Artist sought by NLO

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…

Mary visits Elizabeth

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.