NauMai September 2021
The World Day of Prayer also falls at the beginning of the Season of Creation – from 1 September until 4 October, the feast of St Francis of Assisi. This is an ecumenical season dedicated to prayer for the protection of creation and the promotion of sustainable lifestyles. Thousands around the world join in prayer for a time of restoration and hope, a jubilee for our Earth, and to discover radically new ways of living with creation and take action for our common home.
Every year the Season of Creation also features a new theme and a new logo for everyone to unite around to care for God’s creation. This year’s theme is ‘A home for all? Renewing the Oikos of God’; and the logo reflects that theme as it’s Abraham’s tent, which symbolises ‘a home for all’.
In ancient Greek, Oikos means ‘house’ or ‘family’. By framing the 2021 Season of Creation theme around the concept of oikos, we celebrate the integral web of relationships that the sustain the well-being of the Earth.
Amid crises that have shaken our world, globally we have been awakened to the urgent need to heal our relationships with creation and with each other during the ecumenical Season of Creation.
Learn more at: seasonofcreation.org
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.