No content has been added to this site since 2014 as it has been replaced by a new parish website at a new address: mastertonanglican.org.nz
For current news, events, contact information, etc., please go to mastertonanglican.org.nz.
St. Andrew’s in the Paddock remains on a separate website at standrewsinthepaddock.org. Facebook: facebook.com/standrewsinthepaddock/
Masterton Parish’s history website: history.mastertonanglican.org remains at the same address.
Bidding: We find in you a listening place
Response: Lord, hear our prayer
Loving, Creator God, the earth is your footstool and
bears the imprint of your artistry.
We thank you for the beauty around us –
summer colours,
fragrance after rain,
clear rivers and ocean waves.
Guide us to make life-giving choices in our stewardship of the earth. Continue reading
This icon shows Mary handing the Baby Jesus to Simeon, while in the background Joseph holds the two turtle doves for the sacrifice.
When he was eight days’ old Mary and Joseph took the baby Jesus to the temple to meet the requirements of the Law of Moses. They brought with them two turtle doves as a sacrifice, as the law required.
The devout, elderly Simeon, who was “guided by the Spirit,” was at the temple when they arrived. God had promised Simeon that he would not die until he had seen Christ (Luke 2:26) Continue reading
Season’s Greetings, Whanau.
We have shifted!
Just over two weeks ago we moved into Thorndon. After living in the beautiful Reikorangi Valley for nearly 11 years it feels good but strange to be back in the city. The shift went well so thank you to everybody who helped carry boxes, etc. Continue reading
A special Choral Evensong on Sunday, 22 September 1913, marked 100 years since St Matthew’s moved from the corner of Queen Street and Church Street, to its present site. The second St Matthew’s church, dedicated on St Matthew’s Day, 1913, was damaged and subsequently demolished following the 1942 Wairarapa earthquake. The present church was dedicated in April 1958. Continue reading
Wellington’s Anglican Cathedral has a new dean. He is the Rev Digby Wilkinson, 49.
His appointment was announced to the cathedral community this morning, and the team charged with finding the new dean are celebrating Digby’s acceptance of the job. Continue reading
Chancel and Sanctuary, second St Matthew’s Church, showing the 1899 Hobday pipe organ, the carved pulpit, choir stalls, altar rails, altar, reredos and Meredith windows – 09-156/32.R12B4S1
I was glad when they said unto me:
We will go into the House of the Lord
St Matthew’s Day, 21 September 2013, marked 100 years since St Matthew’s moved into its second church on a new site in Church Street, where it is today. Continue reading
Bishop Justin began his charge by making us face the fact that “Yesterday is no longer the norm. We have to change.” Continue reading
Greetings Family
As we approach the shortest day and the heart of winter, I pray that we each may experience afresh God’s love, grace and compassion in the darkness of our own lives.
Often, as a Bishop, I get asked three questions: the first normally revolves around my appearance – having dreadlocks and bare feet or jandals; the second is my view on the same sex issues facing the Church; and the distant third is around my seeming addiction to sausage rolls … Continue reading
The media fascination with Bishop Justin Duckworth continues, with a recent article in Wellington’s Dompost.
By the glow of a candle stub cradled inside a coconut shell, Justin Duckworth says sorry for letting anxiety and stress get in the way. And at morning prayers the next day, in the tiny chapel he helped build in the foothills of the Tararua Range, the Bishop of Wellington asks God for insight into a difficult problem. Continue reading