Holy Week

The last week of lent is called Holy Week. This is when we remember the last week of Jesus' life and is the most important time in the Christian year.            

Palm Sunday - March 29th

Palm Sunday marks the start of Holy Week. It reminds us of the journey Jesus made into Jerusalem, on a donkey, to celebrate the Jewish festival of Passover. Jesus chose a donkey to show that he had come in peace. Many people welcomed Jesus by shouting, waving palm branches and throwing branches down in the path of the donkey. They hoped that Jesus was the Saviour who the Bible had promised.

Palm Sunday is both a happy and a sad day.  Happy to be singing praises to Jesus but also sad because we know Jesus died less than a week after his arrival in Jerusalem.

Yesterday at Mass - Palm Sunday we had small branches of palms. Left over palms are kept for a special church service on the first day of Lent, the following year, when they are burnt (Ash Wednesday).

Advent in 2 minutes video

Advent

Exaltation of the Cross

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"

Friday 25 July