St Patrick's Parish Te Awamutu

Through his work of manual labour, St Joseph provided for the Holy Family. Addressing workers in Argentina, Pope Francis shared that work “𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒊𝒅, 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕.”
St Joseph the Worker, pray for us.

Notice Sheet for the Fourth Sunday of Easter - Good Shepherd Sunday, 25-26 April 2026

Good Shepherd Sunday is a day when we focus on what it means to be a pastor to the People of God

4E YrA 25-26April26 Notice Sheet.pdf

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest we forget!

E kore rātou e kaumātuatia
Pēnei i a tātou kua mahue nei
E kore hoki rātou e ngoikore
Ahakoa pehea i ngā āhuatanga o te wā
I te hekenga atu o te rā
Tae noa ki te arangamai i te ata
Ka maumahara tonu tātou ki a rātou
Ka maumahara tonu tātou ki a rātou

The Ode comes from ‘For the Fallen’, a poem by the English poet and writer Laurence Binon and was published in London in The Winnowing Fan: Poems of the Great War in 1914. This verse, which became the Ode for the Returned and Services League, has been used in association with commemoration services in this country since 1921.