The Latin Mass Society of New Zealand

Traditional Latin Masses Holy Week and Easter Ceremonies – New Zealand 2026

Auckland Diocese

Fraternity of St Peter

Holy Week Schedule – all Masses/ceremonies are at St. Paul’s Chapel, 183 Richmond Road, Ponsonby, Auckland

Holy Thursday – 7pm Sung Mass – Adoration follows till midnight

Good Friday

2.00 pm Stations of the Cross

3.00 pm “Mass” of the Pre-sanctified

7.00 pm Tenebrae

Holy Saturday

7.00 pm Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday

9.00 am Sung Mass

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HOLY FAMILY PARISH – 94 Taikata Road, Te Atatu, Auckland

Easter Sunday 8.00 am Low Mass

Hamilton Diocese

Easter Sunday 5.00 pm Low Mass, St Mary’s Chapel, 47 Clyde Street, Hamilton East, Hamilton

Palmerston North Diocese

Easter Sunday 12.30 pm Low Mass, St Columba’s 83 Mulgrave Street, Ashhurst, Palmerston North

Christchurch Diocese

Easter Sunday 11.00 am, St Patrick’s Church, Kaiapoi, Christchurch

Dunedin Diocese

Easter Sunday 9.00 am, St Joseph’s Chapel – (next to St Joseph’s Cathedral) 300 Rattray Street, Dunedin

Joint Press Release of Una Voce International (FIUV)

and the Latin Mass Society (England and Wales).

SSPX announces new Episcopal Consecrations

Una Voce International and the Latin Mass Society have heard with concern the announcement by the Superior General of the Society of St Pius X (SSPX), Fr Davide Pagliarani, that the SSPX will carry out Episcopal consecrations on 1st July this year.

Our ardent wish, shared by many Catholics of good will, is for the canonical regularisation of the SSPX, which would enable its many good works to bear the greatest possible fruit. This announcement is an indication that this outcome is a more distant prospect than it has seemed for many years.

We share the SSPX’s goal, that the Church’s ancient liturgy be made available as widely as possible for the good of souls. We do not share the SSPX’s analysis of the crisis of the Church in all its details. In particular we know many Catholics able to attend the Traditional Mass with all the necessary permissions from the Church’s hierarchy, such that it is not necessary for them to seek it in any irregular context.

We also know, however, that for others, attending the Traditional Mass has been made very difficult: in some places, this is despite the desire of qualified priests to celebrate it for the faithful, and even the willingness of the local bishop to allow this. This creates an environment in which the SSPX argument of a ‘state of emergency’ gains sympathy.

We urge our bishops, and above all His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, to be mindful of these pastoral realities, which are at this moment precipitating a crisis whose consequences no one can foresee.

What Catholics attached to the ‘former Missal’ desire is not some harmful or novel liturgical form. Pope St John Paul II called our desire for this Missal a ‘rightful aspiration’ (Ecclesia Dei, 1988), and later Pope Benedict XVI described it as a source of ‘riches’ (Letter to Bishops, 2007).

The time to act is now.

Joseph Shaw, President, Una Voce International, and Chairman, Latin Mass Society

Monika Rheinschmitt, Vice President and Treasurer, Una Voce International

Andris Amolins, Secretary, Una Voce International

David Forster, Treasurer, Latin Mass Society

Selina Fang, Secretary, Latin Mass Society

Note:

Una Voce International (Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce, FIUV) groups together more than forty lay-led associations in support of the Traditional Latin Mass around the world.

The Latin Mass Society, founded in 1965, supports the Traditional Latin Mass in England and Wales, and is the largest member association of the FIUV.

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Contact: Joseph Shaw president@fiuv.org

LMS Press Officer: Daniel Beurthe daniel@lms.org.uk

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Fraternity of St Peter, Auckland – St Paul’s College Chapel, 183 Richmond Road, New Lynn, Auckland

A Mass was offered for the deceased members, co-operators of the Latin Mass Society of New Zealand on the Feast of Christ the King. This included the priests who have offered the TLM in New Zealand since the 1980s.

FIDELIUM DEUS omnium conditor et redemptor, animabus famulorum famularumque tuarum remissionem cunctorum tribue peccatorum: ut iudulgentiam, quam semper optaverunt, piis supplicationibus consequantur. Qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. R. Amen.

O God, the Creator and Redeemer of all the faithful; grant to the souls of Thy servants departed the remission of all their sins, that by our devout supplications they may obtain that pardon which they have always desired. Who livest and reignest world without end. Amen.