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Dear Taranaki Cathedral whānau, Peace be with you. Please find attached a letter from our new co-leaders, Jacqui and Jay, and our Bishop. Also attached is a service sheet for a simple Service of the Word which Jacqui and Dan recorded earlier in the week. The video of the service will be available on the Taranaki Cathedral Facebook page, and website at 10am this Sunday morning. It is our humble online offering to you all in this challenging time of... read more

All church services are suspended including the midweek services. The buildings will remain locked whilst Alert level is at 3 or higher. Resources for the Cathedral community whilst in isolation are available through the Home Worship Resources page. read more

All sevices on the 22nd will be non-eucharist. We will hold short services of prayer at 8.00am, 9.00am and 10.15am for our country and world as we face the COVID-19 crisis. Following the PMs declaration on Saturday 21 March at midday of a level 2 situation, requesting at risk groups to remain at home, which includes those over 70 years and those with other respiratory or health conditions, we also request our parishoners in those groups to remain at home. It... read more

The Archbishops and Bishops of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand have together made the decision to suspend all public services of worship until further notice. This suspension will take effect following those services being held this coming Sunday 22 March. read more

In response to the Government restriction on gatherings of more than 100 people we will this Sunday 22nd March, offer 3 services at 8.00am, 9.00am and 10.15am restricted to 50 people at each, which will also allow for social distancing. At our services we are no longer sharing the Peace and communion will only be offered in one kind, the bread. Sunday’s Shared Lunch is cancelled. read more

In determining the Cathedral's response to the Covid-19 pandemic we are using the following websites to aid our response: Ministry of Health Advice Government Guidelines read more

Announcement from our Bishops of the appointment of Jacqui Paterson and Jay Ruka to lead the Taranaki Cathedral. read more

Our updated fundraising figure for The Cathedral Project has splashed down at the end of January. We have now topped $9m raised. Thanks so much to all our supporters large and small. read more

Sermon preached by Archedeacon Trevor Harrison 29 December 2019: Matthew 2:13-23 Christmas is over. Already people are starting to take the decorations down, to put the crib scenes away and the tree has been dragged out waiting to be next winter's firewood. It's over. Now back to normal. Christmas is a wonderland, a fantasy of peace, joy, love and goodwill. But normal is the world as it really is, the workaday, ordinary fallen world. And yet, after all of tyhe partying,... read more

Sermon preached by Archdeacon Trevor Harrison at the Midnight Mass of the Nativity 25 December 2019 It’s a marvellous, wonderful, wise, loving practical joke. Christmas! The Nativity! There’s God, down through the centuries, listening to the prophecies about the Messiah. Some of them were wonderful and beautiful and spoke the mind of God. Others thundered away about the Conqueror, the one who would come riding on a white charger, with sword in hand, a leader that would be better and... read more