NB NZ BISHOPS: WHERE THERE'S A WILL FOR THE MASS THERE'S A WAY

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Nota bene, NZ Bishops: Father Jeremy Palman shows the way Mass can be done, by those who have the will to do it.

"After Sunday Mass (approx 10:55am), Communion will be given to those who come to the main Church door to receive Our Lord, who have prepared themselves appropriately, as they wait in their cars on Taikata Rd. 

Parking will NOT be provided on Church property, otherwise it will look like a large gathering at Church. The live-stream Mass can be watched on your phone in your car if you can. If I don't recognize you, don't be offended if I ask you some questions to check that you are a Catholic before giving you Communion. As you queue for Communion make sure to keep the 1m distance. Return to your car to make your thanksgiving."

Jeremy Palman

Holy Family Parish Te Atatu Auckland.

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CHURCH OPENING
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~ The Church will be open daily from tomorrow for private prayer.
~ No more than 10 people in the Church at a time.
~ Please disinfect your hands on your way in and out.
~ Keep the social distance of 1m.
~ Wear a mask if you have one.
~ Sign in and out using the sheets provided on the table and provide contact tracing info.
~ There will be no candles at the devotional areas and no kneelers there.
~ Bottles of Holy Water will be available to take home (please take only 1). There will not be an endless supply :-).
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DAILY MASS
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~ Mass will continue to be Live-streamed at 10am (daily) and will not be open to the public.
~ The Church will be closed during Mass.
~ After Mass, Communion will be given at the door of the Church, like for Sunday Mass - see below.
~ This Saturday, May 16, Mass will be at 9am (not 10am) and Communion given after that Mass. This is due to the Funeral at 11.
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CONFESSIONS
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~ Confessions will be 11-11:30am Tues-Sat, (not May 16 due to a Funeral at 11)
~ Sat 3-4pm.
~ I will add another confessional time if needed.
~ Please wear gloves when coming to confession so as to reduce the possibility of infection from the surfaces that you touch.
~ Penitents will have to disinfect the Confessional after use, using the spray provided, by spraying the surfaces that they touch and wiping them.
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NOTA BENE
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***This Saturday (May 16) there will be no confessions at 11am due to a Funeral in the Church.
****Saturday, May 16, Mass will be at 9am (not 10am) and Communion given after that Mass. This is due to the Funeral at 11.
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More updates and adjustments will come as and when needed.
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God bless
Fr Jeremy

And with my hand on my heart, I swear I did not know until now that this "great and holy priest" (as I've seen him described) celebrates the Immemorial (Latin) Mass. What does that tell us?

Father Jeremy Palman, celebrating Mass in the Ordinary Form
(note position of tabernacle)

And with my hand on my heart, I swear I did not know until now that this "great and holy priest" (so I've been told), Father Jeremy Palman, celebrates the Immemorial (Latin) Mass. What does that tell us about the courage and fortitude found at this font of grace, "the most beautiful thing this side of heaven"?

The only Mass likely to be celebrated publicly anywhere in the Palmerston North Diocese this coming Sunday (while staying within the limits prescribed by the Minister of 'Health') will be at a venue I'm not at liberty to disclose. And not so strange to say, it will be a Latin Mass.

From CathNews, August 19, 2014:

"A priest in Auckland diocese has celebrated his first extraordinary form Mass in Latin within days of his ordination.

Fr Jeremy Palman was ordained by Bishop Patrick Dunn at St Patricks’ Cathedral on August 9, and the new priest offered a thanksgiving Mass in the ordinary form at Te Atatu the next day.

On August 12, two days later, Fr Palman celebrated his “first traditional Latin Mass” at Holy Family Parish, Te Atatu.

This is believed to have been a “High Mass” of the extraordinary form (EF).

Some 500 people were present, said Fr Peter Janssen, SM, who was a “priest in choir” at the liturgy.

“It was beautifully sung. The music was just right, the music serving the liturgy,” he said.

Young New Zealand priests had significant parts, with Fr Gerard Boyce of Hamilton being sub-deacon and Fr Nicholas Dillon (on loan from Dunedin diocese and ministering in Melbourne) being the deacon and homilist.

Some New Zealand seminarians were acolyte, torchbearer and thurifer at the liturgy.

Fr Janssen, who lectures seminarians and others at Good Shepherd College in Auckland, said there is interest among his students in the extraordinary form liturgy.

Under Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, priests can celebrate extraordinary form Masses without a congregation, according to the 1962 Missal, without permission from their bishop or Rome, except during the Easter Triduum.

Such Masses may “be attended also by members of the lay faithful who spontaneously request to do so, with respect for the requirements of law”.

Fr Janssen said the community of people in Auckland with devotion to the extraordinary form Mass is not large in percentage terms.

“But in terms of the intensity with which it is experienced and felt, it is significant,” he said.

These people wish to be in “unambiguous communion” with the Church, he said.

Fr Janssen celebrates EF Masses at Mt St Mary’s in Titirangi on Saturday nights, Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation. Some other priests help him when he can’t be there.

According to the seminary website, he is an Aucklander who was born in Twizel and spent some time in religious life in the 1990s.

https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/08/19/new-nz-priest-celebrates-latin-mass-west-auckland-chur

The Latin Mass is what we need, and Father Palman is the kind of priest we need, 'going forward' into a police state, a state in which the right to religious freedom was yesterday abolished. 

Unless you accept, as Minister of Health Hon David Clarke opined in Parliament yesterday while almost visibly squirming at close questioning from Catholic National MP Simon O'Connor, that a group restricted to no more than ten people are actually practising their religion "in a normal way". 

For a shoddy, sleazeball performance by a Minister of the Crown, watch "Question 12 - Simon O'Connor to the Minister of Health on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/417875758?ref=em-share

Yes, we live in a democracy. But once a democracy loses its "fully traditional vision of the political order and the common good" (Dr Peter Kwasniewski), as New Zealand's has, it can easily be perverted, as New Zealand's is now. 

"When human societies lose their freedom, it's not usually because tyrants have taken it away. It's usually because people willingly surrender their freedom in return for protection against some external threat ... that's what I fear we are seeing now." 

- Lord Sumption, English Supreme Court Judge, on Covid-19.