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Our Lady of Fatima - Waikanae
St Patrick’s - Paraparaumu
Parish of Our Lady of Kāpiti Te Whaea Tapu o Kāpiti
https://kapiti-catholic.org.nz
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A - 26 July 2020 Readings: 1 Kg 3:5, 7-12; Rom 8:28-30; Mt 13:44-52
Haere mai e te whanau, Tena koutou katoa, a kia noho te Ariki ki a koutou. Welcome, family, greetings to you all. May the Lord be with you.
SUNDAY 26 JULY Mass 9.30am - Our Lady of Kāpiti Church (and morning tea - Passionist Family Group) Carpe Diem Coffee & Chat for those who would like company at the Trattoria cafe, Coastlands Car park 10.30-12 noon (permanently operating) ph Annette 021 264 4567. All welcome. MONDAY 27 JULY Charismatic Prayer Group meets for prayer & praise 1.30pm in Our Lady of Lourdes Meeting Room, Our Lady of Kāpiti Church. All welcome. If you require transport please phone Lorraine on 905 2402. TUESDAY 28 JULY Mass 9.30am - Our Lady of Kāpiti Church Circle of Friendship (Women’s Fellowship) - meeting in
Our Lady of Lourdes Meeting Room at 10am-11.30am. Contact Diana Evans 298 1066. Catholic Women’s League meeting in Our Lady of Lourdes Meeting Room at 1.30pm-4pm. All welcome. Contact Christine Fogden 297 1706 Meditation Waikanae 4pm, 20 Belvedere Ave, please contact Wanda 04 2932441 WEDNESDAY 29 JULY Mass 9.30am - Our Lady of Kāpiti Church Coffee and Chat at the Olive Grove, Mahara Place, Waikanae 10.30am-12 noon. ph Sr Diane Burdan 022 096 4605 or Anna Upton (04) 293 6349. All welcome. The Bible Timeline group - 7pm-9pm in Our Lady of Lourdes Meeting room. Contact Janine Postlewait 027 274 6503
THURSDAY 30 JULY Music Jam - for all those in Year 5 and up. If you can sing, play an instrument or just hum a tune, come and join us for Music Jam from 7-8pm in Our Lady of Kāpiti Church
PARISH EVENTS
Dear Parishioners
The Eucharist is the central way we participate in the Body of Christ. The Second Vatican Council teaches us to participate “fully,
consciously and actively” in the Eucharist. In turn, leadership and evangelisation and our parish works of service and charity
flow from the Eucharist – the “source and summit” of our Catholic faith.
We pray a blessing on our children and families continuing with our Sacramental programme today and preparation for their
sacraments of First Eucharist and Confirmation to be celebrated on 13 September 2020. Our thanks to our Youth Ministry team
of Jacqui and Natalie and to Jenny McGlone for coordinating this programme.
Thanks also to Bob Houston and the Parish school staff for providing the reflections on Participation and Leadership.
With every blessing in Christ
Michael McCabe,
Parish Priest
Psalm Response: Lord, I love your commands
Our Lady of Kāpiti Building Giving Account : 02-0536-0170550-20
Our Lady of Kāpiti Planned Giving Account : 02-0536-0170550-00
FRIDAY 31 JULY Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 8.30 - 9.20am Sacrament of Reconciliation available during Exposition and after Mass Mass 9.30am - Our Lady of Kāpiti Church Fun Time Pre-School Music 10.30-11.30am in St Patrick’s Hall, Our Lady of Kāpiti School. All pre-schoolers with their parents/caregivers welcome, $2
SATURDAY 1 AUGUST Archdiocese Chrism Mass 10.30am
led by Cardinal John Dew at Our Lady of Kāpiti Church Vigil Mass 5pm - Our Lady of Kāpiti
SUNDAY 2 AUGUST Mass 9.30am - YOUTH MASS - Our Lady of Kāpiti Church
Children’s Sacramental Programme – First Holy Communion Children and Parents Sessions – 8.15am to 9.15 at Our Lady of Kapiti Church, Meeting Rooms
Opening Celebratory Concert – The Organ is Dancing 2pm at Our Lady of Kapiti Church
Women’s Guild “Spring Back” Midday Luncheon
Waikanae Club, Elizabeth Street Monday, 10 August - 11.15am for noon dining. This has been so popular we regret
reservations are CLOSED as our venue is fully booked. Please ensure your $25 is paid by 2nd August
BNZ account for online payment is 02 0591 0044 012 00 or pay to a committee member in the Church foyer before and after
the weekend Mass or contact Sharyn 04 902 2571. We look forward to your company.
PASTORAL NOTICES
Kapiti Catholic Child & Youth Ministry - Ph. 022 6757 357 [email protected] Our Lady of Kāpiti School, Principal: Ms Viv Conroy, 298 6780 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: www.olok.school.nz
Parish Priest: Fr Michael McCabe
Ph. (04) 902 5815
Office location
1 Presentation Way, Paraparaumu
Parish Office Secretary: Marie Lemmon
Parish Finance & Administration Manager: Isabel Carberry
Office Hours - Monday CLOSED
Tuesday-Friday 9am-1pm
Phone 902 5815
Email: [email protected]
Webmaster: Lafaele Vaeluaga https://kapiti-catholic.org.nz
Parish of Our Lady of Kāpiti Te Whaea Tapu o Kāpiti
Saturday Mass 5pm
Sunday Mass 9.30am
Our Lady of Kāpiti Church
Fr Michael McCabe
Our Lady of Fatima Chapel
Open for private prayer
Mon-Fri 9am-2.45pm (closed on
public holidays and unavailable
during funerals)
REMEMBERING THE HOLY SOULS — MAY THEY REST IN PEACE
Readings for 27 July — 2 August
PLEASE SEE NOTICE BOARD IN CHURCH FOYER FOR ALL EVENTS IN THE ARCHDIOCESE
Genowefa (Jenny) Braczek, Judith McCallum, Phyllis Walker, Teresita Cooper & Graham Cooper, Kathleen Mary Holdaway, Edward Graham Perry, Doreen Doherty,
Sybil O’Neill, Nell Plimmer, Edward Plimmer, Pat Plimmer, Fred Plimmer, Maxine Plimmer and
Deceased Members of our families.
Chrism Mass - Saturday 1 August 10.30am at Our Lady of Kapiti Church
If you are a parishioner intending to come along to the Chrism Mass could you please bring a plate
for morning tea afterwards in the Hall (St Patrick’s Hall).
We are also looking for volunteers to help with hospitality on the day, i.e. serving tea/coffee, morning tea and
cleaning up afterwards. Please let the office know if you can help as soon as possible.
Thank you.
Let us pray for all those that suffer from human trafficking and modern day slavery, may we rise up against it and raise awareness and increase prevention
Prayer Focus:
Opening Celebratory Concert – The Organ is Dancing
Our Lady of Kapiti Church 2.00pm Sunday 2nd August
Get in quick, tickets are selling fast! Tickets are $25 each, available online at eventfinda.co.nz or
from Coastlands Mall information desk. All proceeds to the Church Build Fund.
Monday 27 July Jer 13:1-11; Mt 13:31-35 Tuesday 28 July Jer 14:17-22; Mt 13:36-43 Wednesday 29 July St Martha Jn 11:19-27 Thursday 30 July Jer 18:1-6; Mt 13:47-53 Friday 31 July St Ignatius
Jer 26:1-9; Mt 13:54-58 Saturday 1 August Jer 26:11-16, 24; Mt 14:1-12 Sunday 2 August Is 55:1-3; Rom 8:35, 37-39; Mt 14:13-21
Women’s Hui
Join our Waka Wahine for the second reflection day for our women on 22nd August in the parish meeting room.
You can now register on the Parish Website (see ‘Pilgrims Together in 2020’ in blue box on left)
or by contacting Anna 902 6330 [email protected]. More details later.
Congratulations and welcome to
Chanel Edge
and
Giovanni Tamaki-Reedy
who were baptised in our Church last weekend.
Men's Retreat
Saturday 15th August
The Men's one-day Retreat this year will be held at the Parish Centre on the Feast of the Assumption, Saturday 15th August starting with Mass at 9:30. The retreat will be led by Fr Brian Cummings sm on the theme “Pondering in the Heart: A Faith Response to Living in a Covid-19 World”.
Lunch will be provided, with finish at 3:30.
Enquiries to Glen McCullough 2931747 or Peter Ryan 902 6330.
Thank you
Peter and I wish to sincerely thank so many of you for all you did for us both during the 4 weeks I was in
hospital. Your kind phone calls to Peter, the delicious meals you provided for him, your cards, flowers and
visits to me. All these gestures to us both made us realise how blest we are to belong to a loving, caring and
prayerful parish family. My journey at times was tough but I was always aware of a blanket of prayer and kindness surrounding me.
Thank you from our hearts.
Marie-Louise & Peter Blockley
We offer our condolences and
prayerful sympathy to the
family of Judith McCallum whose
funeral will be held on Saturday.
May she rest in the peace of Christ
It has all changed...
To arrive at this point in the history of Our Lady Of Kapiti Parish is a breath-taking achievement; you only have to listen
to the reaction of someone who has walked into our church for the first time. The marriage of parts of the old parish-
es brought together in the most beautiful of simple functionality.
Yes, we have arrived, and so to speak we are in our starting blocks, ready to move into the future.
There were a bunch of people with unique talents who have helped get us to this point, entrepreneurial talents,
financial and constructional talents, and in every other ability that is required to complete something as magnificent
as our church and parish complex.
But to those who got us here their race is run and like Fr Michael they deserve to put their feet up and enjoy the
results of their toil.
What does lay ahead is a whole new game where new talents and energies are required, and it would be nice to think
in transition that we could knock a couple of decades off the age of our volunteers.
Here’s the plea
The weekend of 21 and 22 November is the Feast of Christ the King, this is going to be our
special weekend of celebrations for the opening of our new church, seeing that Covid
defeated our original timetable.
It will be a diverse programme typifying the diversity of our parish, an opportunity to get
new people involved to make this event work and to pick up the ball to assist this
Our Lady of Kapiti Parish to move into the future, having a bit of fun along the way too.
Bob Houston (retiring Parish Chair)
I am the commentator at both Masses this weekend, if you would like a chat.
Or [email protected] or 0274 898017
The kingdom is here, it returns, it struggles to flourish anew. Christ’s resurrection everywhere calls forth seeds of that new world; even if they are cut back, they grow again, for the resurrection is already secretly woven into the fabric of this history.
Pope Francis: Evangelii Gaudium paragraph 278
Dear Parishioners
During Term 3 our Parish School focus on a further Principle from Catholic Social Teaching – the Principle of Participation. Each Term the staff and students will be weaving a social teaching principle through everything that we are doing. Last Term was Stewardship and next Term is the Common Good. Below is a small briefing for the teachers to guide their planning and thinking as to what participation is and what it can look like for our children. It fleshes out the letter written by our Parish Chair Bob Houston.
Together with the principles of Partnership, Protection, and Justice, Participation is also one of the guiding principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Father Michael McCabe
Participation
Everyone should be able to contribute and use the talents that God has given them.
CALL TO FAMILY, COMMUNITY, AND PARTICIPATION The person is not only sacred but also social. How we organise our society—in economics and politics, in law and policy—directly affects human dignity and the capacity of individuals to grow in community. Marriage and family are the central social institutions that must be supported and strengthened, not undermined. We believe people have a right and a duty to participate in society, seeking together the common good and wellbeing of all, especially the poor and vulnerable.
The Catholic social teaching principle of Participation is recognising that everyone has a part to play in our communities – our parish faith community and the wider community.
Promoting participation - nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou - means recognising we each have something unique and important to contribute to society.
We are called on to be active members of our local and global communities.
What can we do to encourage participation?
Engender confidence in our children to speak up in class and share their ideas.
Encourage a mindset of ‘everyone doing their share of the work’ – no one sits back and gets carried.
Help children to extend their comfort zones by challenging them in new situations – physically,
academically, socially and spiritually.
Encourage children to stand up for each other- those who are confident to stand up for those who are shy
or reserved by nature - so that everyone gets to have a say.
We have a duty to share our talents as they are a gift from God given for the building up of the Body of
Christ.
Welcome new members to our school and parish community.
Take time to get to know others – the elderly, the young, visitors to our school and parish.
