Feast of the Assumption

Its a big day on Friday, its the Feast of the Assumption. We have the opportunity to celebrate mass together with our children this Friday at 9.15am.

The feast day of the Assumption of Mary, also known as Assumption Day, celebrates the day that God assumed the Virgin Mary. It is the principal feast day of the Virgin Mother.
The children will be preparing this week for our Feast Day.
Share the "Hail Mary" together this week at some stage of the day.

Feast Of Mary MacKillop - 8 August

Mary MacKillop is Australia's first saint who also had a lot of influence in New Zealand. Mary MacKillop believed in education for everyone and realised that country children in both Australia and New Zealand were being denied this opportunity. She founded an order of sisters - The Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart and these nuns set up many schools in New Zealand - many of these are called St. Joseph's (Papanui and Rangiora). The Sister of St Joseph were also at Our Lady of the Assumption School.

One of Mary MacKillop's favourite sayings was:

"Never see a need without doing something about it"