Online zoom Mass will start on Friday 14 August. Rosary starts at 6.30pm, Mass will be at 7pm.
It will be held everyday during the lockdown, unless advised otherwise.
Please read the newsletter for more details.
Fr Sam invites you to join him for 7pm Mass via zoom.
Rosary will be prayed at 6.30pm each day, before Mass.
To join us at Mass, please click here for meeting ID and password.
If you need help understanding zoom, there are youtube videos that you are look up.
If you are intending to participate in Mass, please enter the meeting room early.
When participating in Mass, we kindly ask you to mute yourself please.
Please DO NOT record and post videos of Fr Sam's Mass. This includes, no postings on social media please. His intention is to celebrate a 'live' Mass with the parishioners as well as to lower risks associated with online security.
Please click on this link to read more about the Bishops’ announcement of the suspension of Masses and other liturgically related events.
For up to date info from the Catholic Diocese of Auckland including a letter from Bishop Pat regarding the suspension of Mass, please click here.
Online Mass option : You will also be able to pray Sunday Mass individually or in small groups through the diocesan website www.aucklandcatholic.org.nz/ where Sunday Mass (with Bishop Pat) will be available on the front page of the website from 6pm each Saturday.
20 March 2020
Pastoral letter to parishioners from the Catholic Bishops of Aotearoa New Zealand regarding the Covid-19 coronavirus-related suspension of Mass
The psalm we pray together at this weekend’s Masses for the Fourth Sunday in Lent is perhaps the best known and most loved of all the psalms. For almost three thousand years those who know God have prayed this prayer in times of comfortable peace and from the heart of the battlefields of life when anxiety, persecution and sickness threaten to overwhelm us.
We often pray this prayer especially as a hymn, when we gather to bury those we love. And today, in union with our brothers and sisters of every nation on earth, together facing the threat of the new coronavirus, we call to God with deepened awareness of our need and with confident hope:
Even though we walk in the dark valley, we fear no evil for you O God are with us giving us courage.
In recent weeks we your bishops have communicated to you the people of our Catholic community in Aotearoa New Zealand the professional advice from the Ministry of Health on how to keep ourselves and all people, especially the most vulnerable, safe, and protected from this virus. We are grateful to all who have immediately implemented the necessary restrictions, especially those who find the required changes most difficult.
Now that it is no longer possible for us to gather for Mass and the sacraments it is important to remember that the church and the ministries of the priest remain open twenty-four hours a day seven days a week. It is our hope that church buildings remain open for personal prayer, even when the liturgy which gathers people together is not able to be celebrated. If you know of people who need the ministry of a priest for any reason do not hesitate to make contact with a priest or diocesan office. In these days, even when the liturgy is not able to be celebrated together, side-by-side, the life of Jesus Christ communicated to us through the church remains open to us.
Diocesan websites are being constantly updated as new information, restrictions and resources become available. Please make sure that all parishioners have access to this important information.
While the visible present fear is a biological virus, the fact is that we humans face fear every day. While in these days we are wisely focused on keeping people safe from the present threat of infection, in our families and friendships and local communities we continue to accompany those who are facing fears that are not related to the coronavirus; those who are struggling with a relationship break-down, and financial anxiety, and those who are terminally ill, and those who care for them.
We live in an age when it seems possible to believe that modern opportunities, education, medical care and technology can deliver us the happiness we seek. When we are faced with a fear that threatens to overwhelm us, we become aware of the fact that we remain vulnerable creatures, dependent on a God who is greater than us for everything, including every breath that we take. Without God this vulnerability is a problem to be suffered and solved. In personal and shared faith in Jesus Christ we understand that the reality of human vulnerability is a gift that opens us to receive and to give love.
May these difficult days be for all the people of our land an opportunity to realise anew that when we dwell in the “House of the Lord” here on earth, goodness and mercy follow us all the days of our life.
Perhaps our mantra for these difficult days can be our psalm for today prayed as a simple repeated line when you are not sure what to pray:
The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
Then as a communal prayer:
The Lord is our shepherd; there is nothing we shall want.
Yours in Christ,
✠ Patrick Dunn, Bishop of Auckland and NZCBC President
✠ Steve Lowe, Bishop of Hamilton and NZCBC Secretary
✠ John Dew, Cardinal Archbishop of Wellington
✠ Paul Martin, Bishop of Christchurch
✠ Michael Dooley, Bishop of Dunedin
✠ Michael Gielen, Auxiliary Bishop of Auckland
ALL are welcome to fill the Vodafone Event Centre to celebrate the Episcopal Ordination of Rev Fr Michael Gielen at 11am on Saturday 7 March. Free parking for buses and cars (please carpool).
More information at https://www.aucklandcatholic.org.nz/episcopal-ordination/.
Te Koropiko – Keeping you in the Loop’ is the newsletter of the Liturgy Centre of the Auckland Diocese.
We hope that this newsletter keeps you ‘in the loop’ with information related to liturgy matters.
It contains information and dates about events which are coming up, plenty to put in your diary.
Fr Francis outlined the options regarding the lingering building issue in the letter below. You are invited to read and pray about it. The finance committee, parish pastoral council and Fr Francis would like to hear your thoughts on this matter.
Enrolled parishioners will be asked to vote on the 2 possible actions they would like to see the parish move towards. This in turn will help the finance committee come to a decision. Votes will only be accepted at the AGM on Sunday 7 July.
If you have any questions, please feel free speak to Fr Francis.
Letter to the parish June 2018
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the St John Vianney 2018 AGM will now be held on Sunday 8 July instead of 24 June.
Every parishioner is invited to attend the AGM after the 9am mass in the hall.
The Parish Pastoral Council be electing new members to join them. If you wish to know more about serving the parish on the Parish Pastoral Council or have any questions about it, please speak to Fr Francis.
The Parish 2018 AGM will be held in June. The final date will be announced by Fr Francis Poon on Sun 3rd June. The agenda would be the reports from the Parish Pastoral Council, the Finance Committee, referendum about the Compensation and the appointment/ election of the PPC for the next term of 2 years. Parishioners who would like to like to stand for election or would like to propose a nomination to the PPC should contact the Parish office.
The Parish has grown since the last parish roll was updated 5 years ago. Steve Barry, Chairman of the PPC announced on Sunday 20th May that enrolment forms are available to enable parishioners to enrol themselves. Those who are regular participants in the St John Vianney Church activities and masses should enrol. It is also mandatory for older parishioners as their details may have changed since the last update. The Parish records will be updated to ensure that all Parishioners are represented and advised on issues relating to our Parish community. Parishioners collected forms after the Sunday morning service and completed forms were dropped in the dropbox. Some took the forms home to return them next Sunday.
Please complete the form below and submit. You can also fill the physical form and drop it in the box placed in the church foyer. Or you may scan the completed form and email it to stjvianney@xtra.co.nz.
Please complete the form even if you are already enrolled on the parish roll. If you have any queries, please contact the parish office 09 624 3440 or email stjvianney@xtra.co.nz