Catholic Parish of Puhoi and Warkworth

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Holy Name Church

SS. Peter & Paul Church

Opened August 10th, 1881

Site updated for:

31st MAY 2020 -
Pentecost

Warkworth
6 Alnwick Street, Warkworth
Church Location Map

Puhoi
Main Road, Puhoi
Church Location Map

MASSES REMAIN SUSPENDED in our Parish this weekend

Dear Parishioners,

We will very soon be able to resume celebrating Holy Mass for our people at long last beginning with Monday the 1st of June.

Please note the following Mass Timetable as we leave the Easter Season
Monday, 1st of June - Mary, Mother of the Church: 9:00am -Holy Name, Warkworth.
Tuesday, 2nd of June – 5:15pm – Holy Name, Warkworth (9th Week in Ordinary Time).
Wednesday, 3rd of June – 9:00am – Saints Peter and Paul, Puhoi.
Thursday, 4th of June – 9:00am – Holy Name, Warkworth.
Friday, 5th of June – 5:15pm – Holy Name, Warkworth. (Note: later time for this week only).
Saturday, 6th of June – 9:00am – Holy Name, Warkworth.

Trinity Sunday – 7th of June – The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Vigil Mass – Saturday evening, 6th of June – 6:00pm Holy Name, Warkworth.
Sunday – 8:30am – Saints Peter and Paul, Puhoi.
Sunday – 10:30am – Holy Name, Warkworth.

Please note the following, folks!

Entry to the Church will be through one door only to help count numbers of our people entering (Maximum 100).
Sanitise your hands as you enter the Church.
Contact tracing is required – please complete the required information (we may have people to assist with this for you).
Maintain physical distancing of one metre at all times. Families may sit together, but there needs to be one metre spacing between different families.
Do stay at home if you are unwell.
All the pews in use will be sanitised before and after each Mass (help would be greatly appreciated for the cleaning and sanitising of the Church).

It will be good to be back together again as a praying people of God in our journey of faith, hope and love!
With every blessing,
Fr. Brian

Pentecost Sunday

Introduction:
With this feast we celebrate the birthday of the Church because it was the first Pentecost Sunday that the infant church was launched on its course and took on its missionary role. The Spirit of the Lord transformed the apostles from a fearful group to courageous men announcing the Good News about the mighty acts of God.
The action of the Spirit continues in our own time and is first evident in our lives at baptism. Through the prayer of the Church, the Holy Spirit comes to us to lead us in the fullness of God’s truth and love.

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Parish Donation Receipts

This is the time of the year when the parish provides parishioners with a receipt for the donations that they have given during the year to 31 March 2020. However, because of the lockdown, the processing of the receipts for the tax credit has be delayed.

To produce all the Tax Letters will require at least three of us to break our "Bubbles" and then how we distribute the letters to all the Parishioners will be a further problem. The letters cannot be collected from the Churches, and delivering them all using NZ Post will be slow and expensive to depleted Parish Funds.
We are aware of the problem and doing as much as we can to comply with the Regulations and produce the paperwork as soon as we possibly can do so - legally and safely.

Contributions to the Parish

We acknowledge that this lockdown has placed financial restrictions on many parishioners and we pray that you are getting through this crisis with the support you need. In light of this, we wish to thank the many parishioners who have managed to continue their automatic payment contributions during this period, and other parishioners who have made online donations.

Any parishioners who may wish to contribute to the parish via internet banking may do so as follows:

The parish bank account number is 02-0100-0120990-018.

Please ensure that you provide the following details with each payment:

Your initials and name
If you normally pay via the envelope system then please quote your envelope number
The word “collection”

Parishioners who usually donate by envelope or cash and who do not have access to internet banking may contribute after this crisis has abated.

God bless you all,
Fr. Brian Lange

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