Immaculate Conception Pakipaki

05/06/2026

A big huge thank you to the Parish of Hastings for supporting the our Maori Mission appeal to collect books for the Mangateretere School library during Lent this year.

Principal Grace Ropitini said years of declining student numbers, ageing buildings, a lack of provided resources, and growing financial pressures on the school had taken their toll.

“When I started at the beginning of the year, I walked into what was the school library, and there were zero books in the library,” Ropitini told Hawke’s Bay Today.

15/05/2026

An exhibition on the Eucharistic Miracles inspired by the life and witness of St Carlo Acutis is coming to Sacred Heart Church Hastings next weekend 23-27 May

This Exhibition shares stories and images of Eucharistic miracles from around the world, gathered and presented by St Carlo Acutis — a young Italian layman whose deep love for the Eucharist shaped his short but profoundly influential life. Through this Exhibition, visitors are invited to deepen their understanding of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist and to renew their faith and devotion.

14/05/2026

This Sunday is Ascension Sunday. Haere mai ki te Miha hei te 8.00am

14/05/2026

All the best to all those participating in the O'Shea Shield competition in Lower Hutt this weekend.

Best of luck to all of our team who have travelled to Lower Hutt to compete in this year’s O’Shea Shield.

O’Shea Shield is an annual public speaking and drama competition requiring our students to be on their feet, thinking, talking, debating and entertaining the audience. The competition takes place annually and has been running since 1946. It sees students from the seventeen Catholic secondary schools in the Wellington Archdiocese and Palmerston North Diocese - which includes our college and Hato Pāora in Feilding - test their skills around a central topic. In 2026, it will be “Returning to the Heart”.

This is a very auspicious occasion with the 17 Catholic schools competing in Debating, Junior Prepared Speech, Oratory, and Impromptu Speech, Religious Questions, Scripture Reading in English and in Te Reo Māori, and Drama. Close to 300 secondary school students will descend on Lower Hutt from as far afield as the Hawke’s Bay and Nelson. Counting their cohorts, teachers and whanau, we are expecting close to 400 people to descend on the college for the events, and 500-600 people to attend the Drama performances at the Performing Arts Centre, Sacred Heart College.

All events will be held at Sacred Heart College in 65 Laings Road, Lower Hutt. All events are open to the public, free of charge.

💙 I o Mahi Katoa Mahia 💙

07/05/2026

It was great to have the Young Marist Team and student leaders at Pakipaki last weekend and we hope to see you all again soon.

02/05/2026

We have a wonderful weekend here in Pakipaki welcoming whānau to Mihiroa for Te Rā o Hinepuaraurangi and the at Houngarea to welcome the school leaders from all Marist Schools nationally who have their annual leadership camp here at St John's College this week.

30/04/2026

Miha this Sunday 8.00am at Pakipaki. Haere mai.

28/04/2026

Today is the Feast Day of St Peter Chanel and the 58th Jubilee of our Church of the Immaculate Conception concecrated on 28 April 1968. St Peter Chanel pray for us.

25/04/2026

Kei Wareware Tātou Lest We Forget. This evening we gathered at the marae flagpole for a sunset ceremony to lower the flag for the day and for evening prayers to remember those who died overseas and the service of those listed on Pakipaki & Districts War Memorial.

Photo Credits to Janine Kenrick, Ngahina and Heather.

24/04/2026

Anzac Act of Remembrance at the Mangateretere War Memorial this morning.