WelCom December 2022
Before the start of Holy Week in April this year, on 8 April about 100 parishioners spent time in silent adoration during a 13-hour night vigil. Adoration was enhanced with rosaries, hymns, bible readings and prayers for divine mercy. It was an opportunity to place heartfelt prayer intentions and thanksgivings to Our Lord, which were offered during Mass.
The prayer intentions were deeper personal relationship with HIM; deliverance of humanity from the Covid-19 pandemic; recession of the war and human suffering in Ukraine and Russia and in the world. It was also an opportunity to offer food and koha for the local St Vincent de Paul Society foodbank.
Holy Eucharistic Adoration is conducted every week for an hour at 11am on Fridays at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Palmerston North, and at 6pm at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit. ‘Come and see that the LORD is good.’
Eucharistic Adoration Team, Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North.
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception 8 December
‘As has been the custom for many years an archdiocesan Mass will be celebrated on our diocesan feast day, 7pm, Thursday 8 December, at St Teresa’s Pro-Cathedral, Karori. The archdiocese will again be entrusted to the care of Mary under the title of the Immaculate Conception at this Mass. Parishes are asked to renew that Consecration on the following Sunday, 11 December, at All parish Masses.’ – Cardinal John Dew
Dates and events – what’s on
December 2022
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Pope Francis registers for the next World Youth Day in Lisbon
At the conclusion of the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis registered for the next World Youth Day to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, in August 2023. Assisted and accompanied by Portuguese university students studying in Rome, the Pope tapped his way to becoming the first officially registered pilgrim for World Youth Day.