Waitangi Day

3 Feb 2021 | M?ori

Saturday 6 February is ourï¿½national day commemorating the first signings of the Treaty of Waitangi ï¿½ Te Tiriti o Waitangi, in 1840.ï¿½

\'Because of the Christian involvement in its signing and the Churchï¿½s mission to bring about a better world we can mark Waitangi as a significant spiritual event and a time to pray for the land and its peoples. We can give thanks for the gift of being here, ask forgiveness for the wrongs of our history from which some have benefitted and some have lost, and re-commit ourselves to work for a more just society.\'

Monsignor Gerard Burns homily Waitangi Day 2019

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ï¿½It is good that we look here to Waitangi, where in these first sacred discussions about the way to live in partnership with each other, my predecessor Bishop Pompallier asked for and received a guarantee of religious freedom and protection.ï¿½It is religious tolerance, religious inclusion and religious acceptance that is our heritage. We honour and celebrate that today.\"ï¿½From Cardinal Johnï¿½s address at Waitangi in 2020 reaffirming protection of religious beliefs.ï¿½
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Read the full speech HERE
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Readings for the Mass of the Day

Heb 13:15-17; 20-21

Mark 6:30-34

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Prayer of the Faithful

Invocation:ï¿½ï¿½E te Arikiï¿½ï¿½

Response:ï¿½Whakarongo mai r? ki a m?tou

For true partnership living together in peaceful relationships:

May there be a true desire among all in Aotearoa to grow more culturally aware and inclusive communities, schools and workplaces through inclusion of the M?ori language, tikanga and understanding of a shared spirituality of our Christian tradition.

E te Ariki ... Response

For those in government:

May leaders of all nations demonstrate religious tolerance and inclusion so that religious freedom and protection is preserved.

E te Ariki ... Response

You might compose more prayers seeking forgiveness, giving thanks, re-committing ourselves towards justice and increasing religious tolerance.ï¿½

Prayer after Communion

E te Ariki, ka inoi nei m?tou m? teï¿½?karitia kua tango nei m?tou,

May the Eucharist which we have received,ï¿½strengthen and renew us, we pray o Lord,

e whakakaha, e whakah?u i a m?tou, ? m? t?nei kaupapa huna o te kotahitanga

that through this mystery of unity

m?tou e whiwhi ki te rangim?rie ka tukua nei

we may possess the peace we may hand on,

me te whaka? i te rangimarie kua tango nei m?tou.

and preserve the peace we have received.

M? te Karaiti to m?tou Ariki.

Through Christ our Lord.

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ï¿½Prayer for Waitangi Day

God of reconciliation, You made people in your likeness, and you call us to hohou rongo - reconciliation - with you, and hohou rongo with each other.ï¿½Let us give thanks for the good will and aroha that New Zealanders have for one another, and for the progress made in healing the things that divide us. Steel us. Give us kaha - strength - for the challenges ahead and the work yet to do in our nation.ï¿½Like a covenant that unites us together for all ages, help us to use the Treaty to build bridges across our ignorance. Help all New Zealanders to join hands in friendship and seek the way of peace together.ï¿½As we protect each otherï¿½s interests, as we partner each other in our mutual needs, as we participate together in our common good, may we remember the high intentions our founders had for each other.

M? t? m?tou Ariki m? Hehu Karaiti, ?mene

ï¿½Published in Caritas Companions February 2011

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Karakia

E te ?tua e aroha mai ana ki a m?tou

God who loves each one of us

Ko ?u iwi katoa hei iwi m? m?tou

All your people are our people,

Awhinatia m?tou ki te m?rama tetahi ki tetahi

Help us to understand each other

Kia whakapaingia t?u Hahi,

Let your Church be blessed,

E mahi tahi ana I roto I te k?munio tuturu

As we work together in true communion.

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Photo of Interior Onuku church, Akaroa.ï¿½

For many Common Prayers in Te Reo clickï¿½HERE

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Acknowledgement

Headline pictureï¿½shows modern reconstruction, showing T?mati W?ka Nene signing the Treaty in front of James Busby, Captain William Hobson and other British officials and witnesses.ï¿½Some M?ori signatories are assembled on the left.ï¿½

More background here https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/the-signing-of-the-treaty

Image by King, Marcus, 1891-1983. The signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, February 6^th, 1840. 1938.ï¿½Ref: G-821-2. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22308135ï¿½Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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More M?ori resources can be found at Te Runanga o Te Hahi Katorika ki Aotearoa

https://www.katorika.co.nz/

Miha

https://www.katorika.co.nz/miha-m257ori.html

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