31st January 2021 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Waitangi Day
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31st January 2021
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Waitangi Day
The Waitangi Day Mass will be held next Saturday 6 February at 9.15am at
St Mary’s Church. I hope that many parishioners will come and pray for
Aotearoa New Zealand as we acknowledge and celebrate the founding
document of our nation.
Back to School
The holiday season is at an end with students returning to school in the coming
week. There are a number of significant liturgical events such as ‘Commissioning
Masses’ and ‘powhiri’ which will be taking place over the next couple of weeks.
I hope that parishioners will join the parents of students and staff in praying for
the success of our schools and students in 2021.
There are also a number of new families who have enrolled their children at our
Catholic schools and are new parishioners. Some have come from outside Napier
and do not know many people in the city. Please extend a warm welcome to
these families as they settle into the life of the Catholic Parish of Napier.
Safeguarding Workshop
Matthew Balm, the Safeguarding Officer for the Diocese, is coming on Thursday
11 February at 6pm in the St Mary’s Centre to present a short workshop on
safeguarding practices for parishioners involved in ministries in our Parish. This
is of particular interest to those who are involved in ministries such as children’s
liturgy, special Ministers of the Eucharist, and those who engaged in visitation to
the sick. Any parishioner is welcome to attend.
Please register your attendance by contacting the Parish Office. It will take just
over an hour.
COVID-19 Liturgical Guidelines
The Diocese of Palmerston North has advised us that we need to continue our
vigilance regarding the Ministry of Health guidelines at Alert Level 1. These are:
no physical contact at the Sign of Peace
Holy Communion under one kind only
Holy Communion on the hand only
Holy Water is to be removed from vessels at the Church door
The priest will not be inviting parishioners to exchange a ‘Sign of Peace’ at Mass
and there will be no Holy Water in the fonts at the entrance to Churches.
Father Barry Scannell s.m.
Parish Priest
Vacancy - Midday Cook
We ask our Parish to pray for our school community
A vacancy exists for a midday
as we embark on a new school year.
cook (Mon-Fri, 9.30am-1.30pm)
Teachers and staff have been on site all week preparing to for a community of 5 aged men
welcome back our students. We especially look forward to who live in Community in Windsor Terrace,
welcoming and getting to know all students new to our college. Taradale. Above living wage offered.
Year 9 and Year 13 cohorts start on Tuesday 2 February with all
other year groups starting on Wednesday 3 February. Apply by email: ajcrad@now.net.nz Applications close
We warmly invite parents and whanau of all new students and February 12th for starting 1st or 8th March 2021
staff to Sacred Heart College to our Powhiri on Wednesday,
3rd February at 10am.
Thank you from St Vincent de Paul,
Nga mihi, Maria Neville-Foster, Principal St Patrick’s Conference
With funds from our St Patrick’s Conference
and with the help of Paola and the Young
All parents, Old Boys and Friends of the College are Vinnies, Sacred Heart College and St Patrick’s Primary
very warmly invited to the Commissioning Mass, to be School who gave their time co-ordinating wrapping and
held at Sacred Heart Church in Hastings on Thursday, packing, we were able to deliver a total of 78 Christmas
11th February at 10am. Cheer food parcels and gifts to those we were able to
identify needing help this Christmas from within our
RCIA schools, church and local community. All parcels were
We welcome back our catechumens, candidates delivered between 18–24 December. A big thank you
and their sponsors for the weekly meetings, which also to parishioners who contributed generously
begin again on Wednesday, 3rd February at 7.30pm, through the “Giving Tree”. These families were so
the final step towards the ceremonies included in the Easter grateful to receive Christmas treats they would not
Vigil Mass on 3rd April 2020. normally have received.
Baptism Preparation Course—2021 From the SVdP Team, St Patrick’s Conference, Napier
The Baptism Preparation Course dates for 2021 are as follows:
Sunday 7th March Titipounamu Study & Joy
Online Sessions (Evening): The Passion of
Sunday 9th May Jesus Christ with Br Kieran Fenn who has a
Sunday 4th July wonderful way of bringing Scripture alive. Four
Sunday 12th September Mondays in March 2021, 7-8.30pm.
Sunday 7th November Fee: $25/session. ZOOM. All sessions are connected but
also stand alone. Start: 01 March 2021
These will take place at the St Mary’s Centre, Osier Road,
Greenmeadows at 11.30am. Parents wishing to have their first For more information and registration: info@studyjoy.nz
child baptised are welcome to attend. Please advise the Parish
Office if you wish to attend.
We are currently looking for volunteers for our supermarket bin
clearance. This requires a commitment of two Friday mornings
in a row, for about an hour, every eight weeks, approximately.
Your own car is required and there is some lifting. Training and
support will be given. Please contact Sue on 021 167 9097.
“The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength
and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church
and to the world.” Pope Saint John Paul II
The Open Home Foundation, Hawkes Bay, is Christian Lovelink urgently requires blankets
looking for new respite carers who are willing to and duvet inners to help those in need in the
provide fortnightly, weekend respite for children in their
Napier/Hastings areas. The demand for these
Oasis programme. Oasis is a family-based, out-of-home,
items has increased many fold over the last 4 weeks (approx
overnight respite care service. Oasis is there to support
3 to 4 requests per day for beds and linen packages).
families and whānau to care for their children with Autistic
Spectrum Disorder or with Intellectual Disability. Noticeably a good proportion of these requests are for
families with children. We are experiencing an increase in
For further information please contact our Foster Parent demand and currently we have no queen blankets and few
Recruiter Ella Retter at Ella.Retter@ohf.org.nz or mobile
duvet inners.
027 488 9715.
Please contact us on 06-843 9803 or 027 532 2611 or
christianlovelink@xtra.co.nz if you can help. Christian
Lovelink can pick up the items from your home Mon-Fri
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed 9.30am-11.30am. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
around the world on January 27, which is the anniversary of
the liberation in 1945 of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Holy Habits: 20 New Year’s Resolutions
concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland. How to get 2021 started on the right spiritual foot.
To Pope Francis, remembering “is a condition for a better Set goals for self-improvement in this world, such as
future of peace and fraternity”. “To remember is an exercise or quitting smoking, but then, go deeper, down to
expression of humanity. Remembrance is a sign of your soul, and consider ways to grow stronger and closer to
civilization. To remember is a condition for a better future of God in 2021. Creating holy habits, through this approach,
peace and fraternity.” our resolutions can pick up speed throughout 2021 as new
We pray that governments in future are not ruled by hate behaviours easily become habits. Here are some ideas.
and fundamentalism, and that good people speak up 1. Give a return on your gifts. When using a gift, say a
bravely against this type of evil. prayer for the giver.
2. Commit random acts of prayer. Pick someone to pray for
throughout your day.
Christian Life Community is inspired by the 3. See Jesus more often. Make a weekly appointment to
spirituality of St Ignatius of Loyola. It is made up visit Jesus in the tabernacle. The more time you spend with
of groups of people who meet regularly to deepen Jesus, the more he can give to you.
their faith and express it in their daily lives. Groups meet in 4. Enjoy the wait. What do you do while waiting for the
the Manawatū, Tararua, Whanganui and Hawke’s Bay microwave or while waiting for someone to answer their
areas. You are welcome to contact: phone? Turn inconsequential moments into prayers of
Ruth Smithies (Napier), consequence.
06 845 3547, ruth.smithies@gmail.com 5. Read the Word. Put a Bible somewhere convenient, and
open it up once a day.
Mass Intentions and Anniversaries
Recently Deceased: Patricia Watson, Bill Roche (father of
Maryanne Macintosh and Cynthia Perry), Patrick McManus,
John Marshall
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Anniversaries: Peter Courtney (29/01), Dan Myers (29/01),
Margaret Frame (03/02), Elizabeth Jeffares (03/02), Marie Henderson
(04/02), Peter Dawson (06/02)
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Prayers for the Sick:
COC - Tip of the Month
Eat seasonally & locally to keep our carbon footprint down.
The first afternoon of 2021 will be held this Thursday 4th
February 2.00 pm in the Heavey Hall. We had a great
pre-Christmas gathering so lets kick of the new year with
a "bang" All Parish Seniors welcome and it is great to catch
with friends and parishioners for a few rounds of bingo
followed by a great afternoon tea - see you there!
afterwards we will have a planning meeting in
the in the Parish Centre meeting room.
2021 Round 1,
Draw 4, No 18, Mary & Ian King
Last Week’s Collection
Total - $7,276
Liturgy Readings
This Week: Deut 18:15-20; 1 Cor 7:32-35; Mk 1:21-28
Next Week: Job 7:1-4, 6-7; 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23; Mk 1:29-39
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