ST. Theresa’s Parish 210 St. Andrew’s Road Plimmerton | email: [email protected] Phone: 04 233 1279 | Office hours: Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri 11-4pm Parish Priest: Father Andrew Kim

4th April 2021 | Easter Sunday

Daylight savings ends this Sunday 4th April at 3am

LEVEL RULES FOR OUR CHURCH In Alert level 1 we can have masses and gather.

Monday 05 April NO Liturgy of the Word or Adoration (Easter Monday.)

Tuesday 06 April No Liturgy

Wednesday 07 April EASTER SUNDAY OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD 9:30am Eucharist Prayer group will meet in the side Who are you? This question was chapel after Mass. most assuredly asked of Jesus on the day of resurrection and it is a question asked of each of us. Thursday 08 April Our identities can be described 9:30amR Eucharist in so many ways. We can start 11:00am Liturgy at Harbourview Rest with our gifts and our talents, home expertise and unique personality expressions. We can describe things we like and things we prefer to set Friday 09 April aside. As descriptive and captivating as these can be, none come close to 9:30am Eucharist our essence, our real and true self. While accurate in their own right, the 10am SVDP meet in the foyer. self who lives and interacts with the world is the self we want others to see, the one we project. But there is much more to us just as there is Saturday 10 April much more to Jesus. 2:30pm Rosary & Adoration in the Church Jesus could describe himself based on all of the same criteria we use for ourselves. After all, Jesus is totally human. With all that people witnessed 6:00pm Vigil Mass and all that Jesus knew about his physical human self, his divinity also shined forth. There was so much more to know about him. Whereas once Sunday 11 April Jesus was transfigured on top of a mountain before his disciples’ eyes, so Divine Mercy Sunday today he is transfigured before our eyes as he reveals his resurrected self 9.30am Eucharist as the Christ. Alleluia, Christ is risen! His glorified presence stands before us showing us that we are all much more than we see ourselves to be and show to others. We have a depth, purpose, and essence that go way beyond the superficial treasures of our existence to the very core of who we are.

Within each one of us is a spark of Divine Love where creature and Creator meet, and we are known uniquely by the name God whispers to us. It is not the earthly name that was given to us but the one that flows from Divine Power and claims us as one who is special and chosen in God’s eyes. This is the self that will rise one day with the eternal Christ of God and live eternally as God provides. This is the self that when free from all superficial constraints layered upon it in this life can discover and know freedom in a way never possible before. This is love lifting us up and transforming us into who we really are, not who we want or need ourselves to be. Who are you? A special, unique child of God who has been fashioned in God’s image, sustained by the power of God’s love and kept eternally with the Blessed Trinity in heaven. Get to know this deeper, truer self as it is who you really are.

Gospel Meditation from Lpi

RCIA St. is the delight of At the Easter Vigil Mass on Saturday . He is a unique we welcoming into the Church through . He is honoured and Baptism, Franchesca Blank and Mel loved as the man closest Greene. On Sunday 11th of April we to Christ. His virtues and will be welcoming into the Church through Baptism, holiness are James Aubrey. Please keep Franchesca, Mel and James extraordinary. Below are in your prayers. some excerpts from our heroes in faith: “I saw heaven opened COLLECTIONS ON GOOD FRIDAY AN EASTER MASSES and St, Joseph sitting There are two collections this weekend, Good Friday upon a magnificent which is for Holy Places and the Easter Offerings which throne. I felt myself wonderfully affected when, each are for the support of the clergy. time his name was mentioned, all the saints made a profound inclination toward him, showing by the If you would like to give to these collections through serenity and sweetness of their looks that they automatic payment, can you please use the Parish rejoiced with him on account of his exalted dignity.” - Account 02 0536 0003250 29 using as your reference St. Gertrude the Great Holy Places or Easter Sunday. Jocelyn will see your ”I have only my great devotion to St. Joseph. This it is name, so she will be able to assign this to your planned that guides me and gives me full confidence. When you giving number. invoke St. Joseph, you don’t have to speak much. You know your Father in heaven knows what you need; so Those who are sick: does his friend St. Joseph. Tell him, “If you were in my Fr Maurice, Mary ten place, St. Joseph, what would you do?” - St. Andre Broeke, Wootton, Bessette Terese McKee, Murray “With the exception of our loving Mother, St. Joseph Butchard, Denis Fairfax, stands above all the saints” – St. Marion Owen, Pansy “Who is not aware that, after the Blessed Mother, St. Cuthbert, Anthony Sarniak- Joseph is, of all the saints, the one who is the dearest Thomson to God?” – St. (Source: Consecration to St. Joseph by Fr. Donald Anniversaries: Ken Sampson, Margaret Woods, Mary Calloway, MIC) , Kevin Neustroski, Gloria Death, Charles Crosby

th Quote for the week: Saturday 8 May - Day of Reflection for Mothers – “Come away with me” This Mother’s Day weekend, give yourself the gift of time to find rest in the presence Dear sister, dear brother, even if in your heart you have of the Lord. 10am-3:30pm at Our Lady’s Home of buried hope, do not give up: God is greater. Darkness Compassion, Rhine Street, Island Bay. and death do not have the last word. Be strong, for Please register by Monday 3rd May, with Lucienne with God nothing is lost! Hensel at Family Ministry: [email protected] Pope Francis: Homily for the Easter Vigil, 2020 or 04 496 1715 / 021 164 5800 We will commemorate the Year of St. Joseph by publishing snippets about the Wonders of St. Joseph our spiritual father when we can.

Church to renew Bishop DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY. Pompallier’s dedication In preparation for feast of the of Aotearoa Divine Mercy on the second to Our Lady Assumed Sunday of Easter we are invited into Heaven to pray the Chaplet and the Novena which Jesus gave to St Faustina. Jesus said to her “By All the bishops will gather in this novena (of chaplets) I will on Sunday 15 grant every possible grace to August – the Feast of the souls” It is a very appropriate prayer to pray in this Assumption -- for a Mass to renew Bishop Pompallier’s time of pandemic. 1838 dedication of Aotearoa New Zealand to Our Lady The Novena begins on Good Friday and ends 9 days Assumed into Heaven. The Mass will be celebrated at later on Divine Mercy Sunday. St Mary of the Angels Church, which will be become a To learn more about this feast, the chaplet and novena national shrine to Mary of the Assumption. go to www.divinemercy.com.au

Celebration of Feast Divine Mercy Sunday 11 April The bishops have commissioned an icon artwork of 2021 at St Teresa’s Karori, Pro Cathedral 2:00PM to Mary by Christchurch artist Damien Walker which will 5:00PM. Adoration, Sacrament of Reconciliation, The be taken on a hikoi around the six dioceses in the three Chaplet of Divine Mercy Prayers and Holy Mass … months before August 15. Fellowship (Share plates) if we are still at Covid -19 Level Attached is a statement about this project, and the The Bach Choir of Wellington presents Dvořák’s Stabat three photos referred to in the statement. The Mater, Op. 58, 3pm Saturday 17 April at Queen statement and photos are also online at: Margaret College, Thorndon. In his setting of the 13th Century poem describing Mary at the foot of the cross, https://www.catholic.org.nz/news/media- Dvořák captures his own faith journey through releases/church-to-renew-mary-dedication/ sadness, solace, acceptance, and affirmation, after losing his three young children in the span of one year. The choir is joined by soloists Michaela Cadwgan, Our Lady's Home of Linden Loader, Jamie Young, and Simon Christie, Compassion Easter Hours accompanied by Douglas Mews, and is under the Suzanne Aubert Heritage direction of Shawn Condon. Tickets available Centre, Cloister Cafe and from Eventfinda: $30/$25, schoolchildren free entry. Chapel of Our Lady of Compassion JOSHUA FELLOWSHIP Good Friday - Chapel open Come and join other men for a cuppa, prayer and short from 10am-2pm. Cafe and talks on Thursday 15th April 2021 at 7:30pm (Note: Heritage Centre closed. fellowship from 7:00pm for 7:30pm start). New venue Easter Saturday - 10am-3pm ‘Loaves and Fishes’ next to Anglican Cathedral of St Easter Sunday - 10am-3pm Paul, corner Hill and Molesworth Streets Easter Monday - Cafe closed, Heritage Centre and Chapel open 10am-3pm. Speakers: Twin Testimonies – Marshall Garrett,

Orlando Basabas 120 Years of the Compassion Soup Kitchen Want to know more? Ring Steve Ready 027-356-9555 This year we are celebrating the Compassion Soup email: [email protected] Kitchen's 120th Birthday. There will be a new chapter of the Compassion Soup Kitchen's story added to our website every month: https://soupkitchen.org.nz/120-years/

Taizé Prayer Friday 2 April, 7pm Venue: The Chapel of Our Lady of Compassion, 2 Rhine Street, Island Bay “A reflective time with simple songs and scripture that brings us to stillness and silence.” ALL are welcome.

Service Rosters for 10/11 April – Divine Mercy Sunday Mass Time: 6:00 pm 9:30 am

Sacristan Mike Montgomery Geoff Shirkey Greeters Maureen Wilmshurst Whelan Family Data Projectionist Terry Cole Hunter Tomlinson Welcomer /Prayers of Cath Gardner Eugene Crosby Faithful Altar Servers TBC TBC Karanga Lizzie if at Mass Janet McClean Children’s Liturgy Ana & Sarah Ayora Proclaimer of The Word Carmel Keane Veronica Young Offertory Procession TBC Dennis & Dorothy Gibbs Extra-Ordinary Catherine Blank Ministers of Holy George Ichim Luke Barber Communion Jocelyn Bryant Communion to the Sick Hospitality Jocelyn & Kevin Bryant

Flowers Krystyna/Dorothy Altar Society Ursula Peters Church Cleaning Claudia/Grace