Maria Assumpta Church

Catholic Parish of Beachhaven

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We welcome Gospel reflection activities that have worked in your family that could be included on this page.
Please contact Marc:  secretary@mariaassumpta.org.nz

Here's a little video in celebration of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori (the Lord's Prayer).

Daily Activities

Click here to see a growing list of activities being offered in Auckland suited to Covid-lockdown.

  • Synod 2021 – 2023 : for a Synodal Church
    • Click here for an introduction

 

Family Liturgy

  • Gather your family, invite someone to link in online, and celebrate Sunday Liturgy together:

How to make an Act of Spiritual Communion

If you can’t get to Mass, you can make an Act of Spiritual Communion:

  1. Make the Sign of the Cross
  2. Read the Mass readings
  3. Recite the Prayer of Spiritual Communion

My Jesus, I believe you are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love You above all things,
and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace You as if You were already there and
unite myself wholly to You.
Never permit me to be separated from you.
Amen.

September 2023

 

26th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 01 Oct 2023)

About the Mass

Institution Narrative: Consecration. The priest continues the prayer, giving praise and thanks, and calling upon the Holy Spirit to change our gifts of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ. He then recalls the events of the Last Supper—the institution of the Eucharist. At this important moment in the prayer, we proclaim the mystery of faith. Several texts are possible, for example: “We proclaim your Death, O Lord, / and profess your Resurrection / until you come again.” The priest continues recalling the wonderful deeds of salvation: the passion, death and resurrection of Christ.

Prayer for unity and intercessions. The grateful memory of God’s salvation leads us to make a bold petition, our main one at every Eucharist: We pray for unity. “Humbly we pray / that, partaking of the Body and Blood of Christ, / we may be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit” . We then add prayers for the Pope and for the bishop of the local Church; we pray for the living and the dead and especially for ourselves that through the intercession of the saints we may one day arrive at that table in heaven. We look forward to that and raise our voices with those of all the saints who have gone before us as the priest raises the consecrated bread and wine and offers a toast, a doxology, a prayer of glory to God in the name of Christ: “Through him, and with him, and in him, / O God, almighty Father, / in the unity of the Holy Spirit, / all glory and honour is yours, / for ever and ever.” Our “Amen” to this prayer acclaims our assent and participation in the entire Eucharistic Prayer.

25th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 24 Sep 2023)

24th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 17 Sep 2023)

23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 10 Sep 2023)

22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 03 Sep 2023)

21st Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 27 Aug 2023)

20th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 20 Aug 2023)

 

19th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 13 Aug 2023)

Transfiguration of the Lord - Year A ( 06 August 2023)

17th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 30 July 2023)

16th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 23 July 2023)

15th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 16 July 2023)

14th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 09 July 2023)

 

Matariki EVENTS in Kaipatiki

Key dates: Type of activities Registration links  
Tue 11 July, 6am – 7.30am Hautapu Ceremony  

Registration not required

 Public assembly outside Te Kamaka Marae, 103 College Road, Northcote
Tue 11 July, 10am – 12.30pm Volunteers Planting Day series led by PFK & KP  

Eskdale Reserve Restoration Day

 Meet at Kaipātiki Project, 17 Lauderdale Rd, Birkdale

 
Wed 12 July, 10:00am – 1:00pm Lantern making workshop Rawene Centre
Wed 12 July 2:00pm – 5:00pm

Sat 22 July 2023 2:00pm – 5:00pm

 Lantern making workshop Glenfield Library
Thu 13 July 2023 12:00pm – 2:00pm Lantern making workshop Kaipatiki Project Environment Centre
FRIDAY 14TH JULY PUBLIC HOLIDAY
Sat 15 July, 10am - 12.30pm Volunteers Planting Day series led by PFK & KP: Eskdale Reserve Planting Day  

PFK and KP events on Facebook

 Meet at corner of Domain & Glenfield Rd, Glenfield
Sat 15 July, 1:00pm – 4:00pm Lantern making workshop Bayview Community Centre
Sun 16 July, 10am – 12pm Volunteers Planting Day series led by PFK & KP Shepherd's Park Planting Day Meet at Shepherd's Park, Melba St entrance, Beach Haven
Mon 17 July, 10:00am – 12:00pm Lantern making workshop St Lukes Methodist Church
Tue 18 July, 10am – 12.30pm Volunteers Planting Day series led by PFK & KP: Eskdale Reserve Restoration Day  

PFK and KP events on Facebook

 Meet at Kaipātiki Project, 17 Lauderdale Rd, Birkdale

 
Wed 19 July, 12:00pm – 2:00pm Lantern making workshop Pest Free Kaipatiki
Thu 20 July, 3:30pm – 6:30pm Lantern making workshop Highbury Community House
Fri 21 July, 2:00pm – 5:00pm Lantern making workshop Birkenhead Library & Civic Centre
Sat 22 July, 10am – 12.30pm Volunteers Planting Day series led by PFK & KP: Eskdale Reserve Restoration Day  

PFK and KP events on Facebook

 Meet at corner of Domain & Glenfield Rd, Glenfield

 

 
Sat 22 July, 1:00pm – 4:00pm Lantern making workshop Northcote Library
Sat 22 July, 5.30pm – 9.30pm Community hikoi and closing ceremony Community event Matariki ki Te Whenua Roa o Kahu

Registration not required

 

 Community Hikoi (public assembly back of Northcote Library between 5.30-6pm) followed by closing ceremony.
Sat 29 July, 10am – 1pm Volunteers Planting Day series led by PFK & KP “Gift a Tree” Planting Day at Eskdale Reserve Planting Day Meet at corner of Domain & Glenfield Rd, Glenfield

13th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 02 July 2023)

 

12th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 25 June 2023)

 

11th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 18 June 2023)

The Body & Blood of Christ ( 11 June 2023)

Trinity Sunday ( 04 June 2023)

 

Pentecost Sunday ( 28 May 2023)

 

Ascension of the Lord A ( 21 May 2023)

 

6th Sunday of Easter - Year A ( 14 May 2023)

FOR SALE at the Office ($5 - Daily Mass Calendar (6 left)  )

5th Sunday of Easter - Year A ( 07 May 2023)

 

4th Sunday of Easter - Year A ( 30 Apr 2023)

3rd Sunday of Easter - Year A ( 23 Apr 2023)

2nd Sunday of Easter - Year A ( 16 Apr 2023)

 

Easter Sunday - Year A ( 09 April 2023)

 

Palm Sunday - Year A ( 02 April 2023)

5th Sunday of Lent - Year A ( 26 Mar 2023)

4th Sunday of Lent - Year A ( 19 Mar 2023)

3rd Sunday of Lent - Year A ( 12 Mar 2023)

2nd Sunday of Lent - Year A ( 05 Mar 2023)

1st Sunday of Lent - Year A ( 26 Feb 2023)

 

7th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 19 Feb 2023)

6th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 12 Feb 2023)

 

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Year A ( 05 Feb 2023)

Online Masses

 

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