Prayer7s

27

Low Sunday, 2nd Sunday of Easter

28

St Mark the Evangelist

29

Catherine of Siena, Teacher of the Faith, 1380

30

The Seven Martyrs of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 2003

1

St Philip and St James, Apostles

2

Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher of the Faith, 373

3

George, Martyr, Patron Saint of England, c.304

4

3rd Sunday of Easter

5

Vigil of St John

6

St John the Evangelist

7

Ruatara, Te Ara mō te Rongopai (The Gateway to the Gospel)

8

Dame Julian of Norwich, Mystic, 1417

9

Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher of the Faith, 389

10

Father Damien of Molokai, Religious Priest, Missionary, Martyr of Charity 1889

11

4th Sunday of Easter

12

Samuel Marsden, Priest, Missionary, the Apostle of New Zealand, 1838

13

Ihāia Te Ahu, Missionary, Priest in Te Arawa

14

Ngākūkū, Missionary in Mataatua

15

Piripi Taumata-ā-kura, Missionary in Ngāti Porou

16

Te Wera Hauraki, Missionary in Ngāti Kahungunu

17

Carl Sylvius Völkner, Priest, and Mokomoko, Rangatira, Opotiki, 1865, symbols for reconciliation

18

ASIA SUNDAY

19

Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury and Reformer, 988

20

Tāmihana Te Rauparaha, Missionary to Te Wai Pounamu, 1876

21

Wiremu Te Tauri, Missionary in Whanganui

22

Rota Waitoa, Te Mātāmua o ngā minita Māori. The first Māori ordained in New Zealand, 1853

23

Frederick Augustus Bennett, Te Mātāmua o ngā pīhopa Māori. The first Māori Bishop, 1950

24

Mother Edith, Founder, Community of the Sacred Name, Christchurch, 1922