Welcome to Week 5 Term 3
Thank you Ruma Kereru for leading the Mass this week! Amazing Reading and Reverence shown and shared. Next week Ruma Takahe are our leaders.
Nga mihi nui
Leanne Brookes DRS
Week 5 14th - 18th August
What is a Holy Day of obligation?
The obligation to participate in the Mass. The obligation to refrain from engaging in work or activities that hinder the time with God.
In New Zealand, we now have only two holy days of obligations as well as Sundays. They are Christmas Day and the Feast of the Assumption, August 15. This day celebrates the mystery that the Virgin Mary was taken into heaven body and soul. Mary’s assumption into heaven is also the patronal feast of the Catholic people in New Zealand. In other words, she is the Patron saint of New Zealand and this week is her feast day.
St. Maximillian is the patron saint of families, prisoners, journalists, political prisoners, drug addicts and the pro-life movement. St. John Paul II declared him to be “the patron saint of our difficult century.” The evils which made the twentieth century so difficult were not left behind as we moved into the twenty-first century.
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