{"id":3149,"date":"2017-08-15T11:38:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T23:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2017-08-15T11:55:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T23:55:56","slug":"feast-of-the-assumption-of-blessed-virgin-mary-patronal-feast-for-aotearoa-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/?p=3149","title":{"rendered":"Feast of the Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary &#8211; Patronal Feast for Aotearoa New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3156\" src=\"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Assumption.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"794\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Assumption.jpg 794w, https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Assumption-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Assumption-768x618.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><em>Each year members of the Italian community in Island Bay make sure that Mary&#8217;s Altar at<br \/>\nSt Francis de Sales Church reflects the special significance of 15 August, the Feast of the Assumption.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bishop Jean-Baptiste Pompallier was the first Catholic bishop of New Zealand.<br \/>\nAt the end of the first Mass he celebrated in Aotearoa New Zealand, on 13 January 1838, at Hokianga, he dedicated the country to Mary under the title of her Assumption.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference, in a pastoral letter in 1988 said:<br \/>\n\u201cIn dedicating New Zealand to Mary in her Assumption, Bishop Pompallier placed our country under the protection of Mary as she is now \u2013 alive, body and soul, rejoicing in the happiness of God\u2019s kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>UPDATE:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fislandbaylittleitaly%2Fposts%2F1833335410014717&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"740\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year members of the Italian community in Island Bay make sure that Mary&#8217;s Altar at St Francis de Sales Church reflects the special significance of 15 August, the Feast <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/?p=3149\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/3161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}