Parish Calendar, News & Notices Te Whetu O Te Moana | Star of the Sea Marlborough Catholic Parish Weekend Mass Times Parish News & Events Friday 19th March Women's From the Sounds to the Sea, the Mountains to the Plains 5th Sunday of Lent (3) Communion to the Sick: If you friendship Group Meeting at Mer- We Are One Mission. One Parish. Seven Communities cy Room at 2pm All welcome. Sat Mar 20 have a family member housebound When a priest is not availa- Blenheim | Havelock | Kaikoura | Picton | Renwick | Seddon | Ward Jessie 02108635235 Blenheim-5pm Mass or in hospital and would like a ble, Word & Communion Parish Office: 61 Maxwell Road, Blenheim | T. 03 578 0038 Sun Mar 21 priest to visit or someone to take Notices from Titipounamu will be led by parishioners. EM. [email protected] | FB. Star of the Sea Marlborough (357 followers) Communion, please contact the WEB. www.staroftheseamarlb.co.nz Seddon-8am Mass Study & Joy Online Sessions Blenheim Parish Office or Judith Kerridge 578 Picton-9am Mass (Evening): The Passion of Jesus Tues: 9.30am Mass A Warm Welcome Parish Priest: Fr Pat McIndoe CP 6209 Cuppa after Mass Christ with Br Kieran Fenn. Wed: 12.05pm Mass [email protected] 03 578 0038 Sacrament of Reconciliation to Our Parish Family Kaikoura-9.30 W&C Monday 22 March, 7-8.30pm. Fee: Rosary: 5.30pm Assistant Priest Kuman Blenheim-10am Mass There will opportunity for the of Marlborough $25/session. ZOOM. Ph: 572 9067 or 5782507 [email protected] Havelock-11am Mass Sacrament of Reconciliation for venue Past Assist: Sr Maureen Connor SMSM All sessions are connected but also We the people of Renwick-5pm Mass (the 2nd rite) on: [email protected] stand alone. Thurs: 9.30 am Mass Palm Sunday (4) Blenheim—24th March 7pm Te Whetu O Te Moana, Past Assist: Sr Frances Anna SMSM https://www.studyjoy.nz/events/ Except 1st Thurs: Star of the Sea Parish, Sat March 27 (2 priests) Bethsaida 10.45am [email protected] Blenheim-5pm Mass Picton 25th March 7pm the-passion-of-jesus-christ-with- are committed by our baptism in Manager/Secretary: Ginetta Petersen Fri: 11am Adoration kieran-fenn-fms/ Christ, to share our living faith, Youth Ministers: Maurice & Mieke Davies Sun March 28 Holy Thursday & Easter Vigil 11.30 Reconciliation Seddon-8am Mass For more information and registra- and make God visible, in joyful un- [email protected] 022 391 8584 Blenheim, Picton Havelock, 12.05pm Mass ion with all people, by our actions Picton-9am Mass tion: [email protected] Parish Pastoral Council Chair: Greg Stretch Seddon, Renwick people, we Sat: 9.30am Mass in the community. Kaikoura-9.30 Mass Parish Finance Committee Chair: need some help for the dif- Reconciliation to follow (Parish Mission Statement) Blenheim-10am Mass Volunteers Required: Tom Harrison ferent ministries in these Sat: 5.00pm Mass Havelock-11am Mass Liturgies. Please phone Viv Red Cross require some drivers for Meals on Wheels 11/ hours, once a Sun: 10.00am Mass Ward– 4pm Southby 021-054-4003 2 Newsletter No 07: 21 March 2021 Holy Week month Contact Belinda Vavasour (2nd & 5th Sunday Tues March 30 Lent: Stations of the Cross eve- 021-744-858 Word & Communion) 5th Sunday of Lent ry Friday at 7pm in St Mary’s Chrism Mass 11.40am Garin Parish Calendar Havelock Church until Easter. College Richmond, Nelson Sunday: 11am Dear Parishioners, CHRISM MASS 2021: Please join March 2021 Thursday April 1st Mar 24 Blenheim Reconciliation (7) (4th Sunday As we journey together into the 5th week of Lent, hopefully we are with Priests and parishioners from No Mass) Blenheim Mass of the last the parishes of the Top of the Mar 25 Picton Reconciliation (7) growing more closer to God and to our neighbour. Our penance of giving Supper 7pm South For the 2021 Chrism Mass. Mar 16..Finance & Property (7) Kaikoura up certain food, meats, drinks, deserts, sweets and of course certain Good Friday April 2nd Held this year at Garin College, 35 Mar 30.. Chrism Mass, Garin Tues: 9.30am attitudes helps us to come closer to our families, friends and work College (11.40) Blenheim -Combined Service Champion Road in Richmond, Nel- Wed: 9.30am colleagues, including our neighbors. It helps us to appreciate others more ASB theatre 10am son. Date and time: Tuesday 30 April Wed: 7pm Rosary and love them more forgive them more as God has loved us and forgives Kaikoura—10am Stations March at 11.40am. Should accom- Apr 4.. EASTER SUNDAY Thurs: 11am Scripture us. Picton—11am Stations starting modation be required please con- Apr Sounds Stewardship (5) Group In our readings today, especially in the gospel it speaks about dying to at Anglican Church tact Jacqui Cleary on 027 Apr 6.. Wairau Stewardship (7) 3853383 . If you intend going Mass: 5.15pm oneself, this dying to one self or to put it in another way, unless we die to Havelock—Stations starting at Apr 12..Kaikoura Stewardship please also let the Parish Office Fri: 9.30am our own will, we cannot bear fruit for God, this is what Jesus is telling us Anglican Church Apr 18..Blm Sacramental know as we require someone to Sun: 9.30am in today’s reading. He said unless a grain of wheat dies, it could not bear Blenheim Liturgy Service 3pm Programme starts collect the oils on our behalf. (1st & 3rd Sunday fruit. If we do not plant the corn seedlings, we cannot pick the beautiful Kaikoura Liturgy Service 3pm Apr 20..Finance & Property (7) Word & Communion) Easter Vigil April 3 Combined Good Friday Ser- corn for consumption. Picton Blenheim 7pm vice ‘We Remember’ May Concretely, what does all this dying to self or dying to our own will mean Mon: Adoration 4-5pm Sun Easter April 4 Friday 2nd April 10am at the for you and me in our everyday lives? It means dying to our pride and Wed: 9.00am Mass Seddon-5.45am Mass at ASB Theatre. June ask for help; admitting our problems and seeking help from others and Adoration & Reconcilia- Flemings Rd Seddon St 's Roadshow: The Head God, forgiving the person from our hearts and treating her or him with June 12..Confirmation St Mary’s tion: 9.30-10.30am Picton-9am Mass staff of the Boarding school will be love and respect once again. Let the Holy Spirit come into our lives and June 13.. Confirmation Kaikoura Fri: 7.30pm Rosary - Kaikoura-9.30 in Blenheim 28 Mar, 5.30-730pm at transform us into a new person, a person that God wants us to be. Where 24 York Street Blenheim-10am Mass Chateau Marlborough, and Kaikou- we can find it easy to forgive others, love others, be kind to others, be Sun: 9.00am Mass 2nd Sunday of Easter (2) ra 29 Mar, 4.30-6pm (Present & generous to others. Build on that beautiful relationship we have with God (4th Sunday: Sat April 10 Future), 6pm onwards, (Past) at and extend it further into our relationship with our fellow human beings. the Lobster Inn Motor Lodge, to Word & Communion) Blenheim-5pm Mass talk to parents about the opportu- Let us let go of those old habits which hinders us from coming closer to Sun April 11 nities they provide. Old boys are Renwick God, family and neighbour. Seddon-8am W&C also invited to attend. They also 3rd Sunday 5pm Mass Let God’s word transforms our every being that in this hard and difficult Picton-9am Mass have an Open Day on Fri 9 April Seddon times of covid-19 we can put a little smile on people’s faces. Let you be Kaikoura-9.30 Mass 10am-12 Noon. Sun: 8am Mass the reason that your family or neighbour put on a beautiful smile on their Blenheim-10am W&C She Connects: Saturday 10th (2nd & 5th Sunday face. Cuppa afterwards April Women’s event at the RSA Word & Communion) Jacob Kuman CP Havelock-11am Mass rooms Club of Marlborough $15 Ward check the notice board for more 4th Sunday 4pm Mass Readings for the fifth Week of Lent details. Sunday 21st . 31:31-3 Hebrews 5:7-9 John 12:20-33 Baptisms Celebrated during week- Psalm: Create a clean Heart in me O God Let Us Remember in our Prayers and at Mass: COLLECTIONS: end Mass or other times. Recently Deceased: Br Marty Williams sm, Murray Mon 22nd Dan. Ch 13 John 8:1-11 We are most grateful for your support of our Parish Marriages McGuire (Nelson), Rewa Derbyshire (Hamilton), Pat Cos- Tues 23rd Num. 21:4-9 John 8:21-30 of Star Of The Sea. Marriages celebrated in all tello, Darren Wilkinson, Syd Nally, Mary Hogg, Margaret our Churches. Please con- Wed 24th Dan 3: 14-20,24-25,28 John 8:31-42 James Last week: tact the Parish Office well Thurs 25th 7:10-14, 8:10 Luke 1:26-38 AP’s: $ 1492.70 Anniversaries: Mar 28 John Romano in advance. Day of prayer for family life Envelopes: $ 579.70 Other Intentions: John Barry (retirement), Katheen Open Church Fri 26th: Jer. 20:10-13 John 10:31-42 Monica Smith, Kitty Collier, Harvey Howard, Beavan Un- Cash: $ 472.23 Our Churches at St Mary’s Sat 27th 37: 21-28 John 11:45-57 drill, Terri Byrne, Jim Loe, Paul McIntyre, Heather Alexan- &Sacred Heart Kaikoura are open every day if you want a der, Flo Andrews, Diane Smith, Paula Schreuder, Lyn But- Caritas $400 quiet place for prayer. Passion Sunday (Palm Sunday) tle, Louise Clark. Romano & Albano Families Sun 28th Isaiah 61:1-3,6,8-9 Philippians 2:6-11 Mark 14:1-15:47 (Passion) Vatican asks Catholics to support Good Friday collection Historic discovery’ of ancient Biblical fragments made in Israel’

Archaeologists have unearthed fragments of a 1,900-year-old Biblical scroll in Israel, in what ex- perts are calling the most important discovery in the last 60 years. By Devin Watkins The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has unveiled an historic discovery of Biblical proportions in several desert caves. In a dig that began in 2017, archae- ologists discovered around 80 new parchment fragments of Old Testa- ment texts. They contain verses written in Greek—with the name of God ap- pearing in Hebrew—from the books of Zechariah and , which are part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. The fragments form part of a scroll which experts believe belonged to Jewish rebels, led by Simon Bar Kokhba, who hid in the caves after a People walk outside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank, May 26, 2020. failed revolt against Roman rule be- (Credit: Debbie Hill/CNS.) tween 132 and 136 AD. Israeli archaeologists began the op- — The support of Catholics worldwide is an invaluable resource for small Christian eration in the Judean desert to pre- communities in the Middle East who have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a vent caves from being looted. They also unearthed a cache of rare coins from the same period, a Vatican official said. 6,000-year-old skeleton of a child, and a large woven basket dating from around 10,500 years ago, the oldest intact in the world. In a letter sent to bishops around the world and released by the Vatican March 11, Cardinal ‘Cave of Horror’ Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, asked for continued support for the traditional Good Friday collection for the Holy Land. The discovery was made in a difficult-to-reach mountain enclosure known as the “Cave of Horror”, “If this small gesture of solidarity and sharing — St. Paul and St. would call which lies some 40 km south of Jerusalem. it ‘restitution’ — fails, it will be even more difficult for many of them to resist the temptation It acquired that intriguing name after 40 human skeletons were found there during excavations in to leave their country, more demanding to support the parishes in their pastoral and educa- the 1960s. Experts say they were the remains of men, women, and children who fled to the cave tional work and harder to sustain the social commitment to the poor and suffering,” Sandri to escape the Romans but died instead of hunger and thirst. said. They brought with them what are now precious objects, including cooking utensils, personal be- The collection, taken up at the request of the , is administered by the Franciscan Cus- longings, and documents and Biblical texts. tody of the Holy Land and the Congregation for Eastern Churches, which uses it for the for- New page in biblical discoveries mation of candidates for the priesthood, the support of the clergy, educational activities, Marcello Fidanzio, the Director of the Archaeological and Cultural Institute of Biblical Lands in Lu- cultural formation and subsidies. gano, described the find to Vatican News as “a new page in the history of archaeological excava- The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, an administratively autonomous province of the tions.” Franciscan order, also uses the collection to carry out its mission of preserving most of the He said it is the first discovery of note since the great excavations in the 1940s and ‘50s, which shrines connected with the life of Jesus as well as for providing pastoral care to the region’s brought the Dead Sea Scrolls to light in Qumran and the Judean desert. Catholics, running schools, operating charitable institutions and training future priests and “Discoveries of such significance,” he pointed out, “rekindle the excitement of pioneers.” religious. In his letter, Sandri said 2020 was “a year of trials” for the Holy Land’s Christians, who Suzanne Aubert Tertiary Scholarship have “suffered an isolation that made them feel even more distant, cut off from vital con- tact with the brethren from various countries of the world.” Suzanne Aubert knew the importance of tertiary education for young people. In “They suffered the loss of work due to the absence of pilgrims, and the consequent difficul- 1992, the Centennial Year of the Sisters of Compassion, the 'Suzanne Aubert Ter- ty in living with dignity and providing for their families and children,” he wrote. tiary Scholarship Grant' was established by the congregation. Since then, many Furthermore, Sandri said the economic aid from the annual collection fell short since many students have benefitted from the grant and have gained national recognition in churches were forced to close their doors during the pandemic. their respective professional careers. Nevertheless, he said, “we must not give up on taking care of the holy places that are con- Congratulations to Elizabeth Kula (daughter of Lasike and Aiona) Elizabeth as- crete proof of the mystery of the incarnation of the son of God and the offering of his life for pires to be a doctor and address the disparities in the health system between the us and for our salvation.” Māori and Pasifika community and the rest of the population. She is starting her Along with Sandri’s letter, the Vatican press office released some details of how the money second year of Medical School at the University of Otago. was used from the 2020 collection, which totalled more than $7.1 million. The Sisters of Compassion congratulate all of the 7 students who were awarded a The congregation spent more than $2.3 million on academic, spiritual and human formation 2021 Suzanne Aubert Tertiary Scholarship. of seminarians and priests of churches under their jurisdiction as well as for training men and women religious, it said. More than $2.4 million went for subsidizing schooling and edu- cational activities for young people, including at Bethlehem University; and nearly $2.5 mil- Quote from ADW Ecology, Justice and Peace Advisor lion was used to provide emergency assistance and support to people in 10 countries. In Lent, may we be increasingly concerned with speaking words of comfort, strength, consolation Additionally, the congregation allocated $500,000 from the collection to an emergency fund and encouragement, and not words that demean, sadden, anger or show scorn. In order to give to assist countries in the Middle East and Africa reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic. hope to others, it is sometimes enough simply to be kind. The Vatican also released a list of the projects supported through the funds given to the Pope Francis:: Message for Lent 2021 Franciscan Custody to assist the Christian minority in the region, preserve and provide pil- grim access to the archaeological sites and Christian shrines and support education. Among the maintenance and restoration work carried out were projects at: the Church of St. ; the Sanctuary of the House of Martha, Mary and Lazarus; the Basilica The greatness of St is that he was the The 150th Anniversary of the of the Nativity in Bethlehem; and archaeological excavations at the Basilica of Gethsemane. spouse of Mary and the father of Jesus. In this way, Proclamation of St Joseph as Funds were also used to build schools, orphanages and homes for the poor. The collection he placed himself, …“at the service of the entire Patron of the universal Church also financed 490 university scholarships and financial aid for local activities. plan of salvation”.