Prayer7s

26

St Mark the Evangelist

27

Go Carrying Hope

28

Heni Te Kirikaramu of Gate Pā, 1864

29

Catherine of Siena, Teacher of the Faith, 1380

30

Vigil of St Philip and St James

1

St Philip and St James, Apostles

2

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

3

God is Love, 5th Sunday of Easter

4

May the Fourth be with You

5

Vigil of St John

6

St John the Evangelist

7

Wiremu Te Tauri, Missionary in Whanganui

8

Dame Julian of Norwich, Mystic, 1417

9

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

10

Mother's Day, 6th Sunday of Easter

11

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

12

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

13

Vigil

14

ASCENSION DAY

15

St Matthias the Apostle

16

Te Wera Hauraki, Missionary in Ngāti Kahungunu

17

ASIA SUNDAY

18

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

19

Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury and Reformer, 988

20

Tāmihana Te Rauparaha, Missionary to Te Wai Pounamu, 1876

21

Shavuot

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

THE DAY OF PENTECOST (Whitsunday)

25

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

26

Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, Missionary, 605

27

The Venerable Bede of Jarrow, Teacher of the Faith, 735

28

Piripi Taumata-ā-kura, Missionary in Ngāti Porou

29

Ngākūkū, Missionary in Mataatua

30

Apolo Kivebulaya of Uganda, Priest and Missionary, 1933