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I believe they only get a priest to say Mass once per month.

A relatively well known priest who has a blog and YouTube channel used to say Mass there once a month.
 
Pope St John Paul II during his visit to New Zealand, with then Governor-General, Sir Paul Reeves. Sir Paul Reeves had previously been the Anglican Archbishop of New Zealand and was the first Māori to become Governor-General.

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Those PBJs look good. My mother loved PBJs her entire life and I like them too, but unlike Mom I sometimes use jellies other than grape. Had to be grape jelly for her.
 
Was this in the fall? Is this the Stations of the Cross? I would love to go back there and spend some more time on my own rather than on the schedule with the group.
 
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The bishops of New Zealand meet Pope Francis, October last year.

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My ordinary, the Cardinal Archbishop of Wellington with our Holy Father.
 
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His Eminence, Vincent Cardinal Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster (London), with Charles, Prince of Wales at the canonisation of Cardinal John Henry Newman.
 
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A lovely view of my city, the capital of New Zealand.

The lovely brick building is a Catholic monastery that now functions as a parish church and Catholic mission training centre.
 
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Was this in the fall? Is this the Stations of the Cross? I would love to go back there and spend some more time on my own rather than on the schedule with the group.
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It was just a few days before Christmas. There’s a High Stations of the Cross at Lourdes and a Low Stations. The High Stations meanders for a ways along the hillside next to the Basilica and has life-size sculptures at the Stations. You’re supposed to do it on your knees, but since my luggage was stolen on he train and I was wearing my only pair of pants, I walked. I only saw one other gentleman during my time there. He was walking too. At the end, the shrubs along side the trail are covered in rosaries discarded by the pilgrims. The birding was excellent as well. Lots of little woodland species similar to their North American counterparts. I liked being in Lourdes in the winter. It drizzled almost the whole time, but I liked that it was nice and quiet.

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Well, God willing, I will get back there some day.
I was very happy to be able to go back to Fatima on my own and spend part of a day doing the stations there although it was definitely not quiet when I went (was the 100th anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun and it was jam packed with a near riot at the bus station to get back to Lisbon).
 
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These are both from Grand Falls, New Brunswick. I took them both in August 2019. The Church is the Catholic parish of the Assumption. The waterfall was absolutely amazing; the photo doesn’t do it justice. I just can’t imagine what it would have been like if there was more water.
 
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My husband and I saw lots of them on our honeymoon downunder 🙂 they would wobble and ripple crossing the road.
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If you liked Australia, maybe you should come to New Zealand one day.

We’re just like ‘Australia lite’ (well, we are similar countries).

What’s not to like about the kiwi?

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Sure, I’d love to come to NZ. A travel agent tried to browbeat us into going there when we went to Australia, but I thought it would be too much for one trip since we were going to four cities and a wildlife area already. And we ended up not using the travel agent anyway, they were annoying, I planned the whole trip myself. Pre-Internet, with a fax machine and a lot of long distance international calls.

I thought we would have time to go other places later in our life but it turned out to be mostly just me going places myself because he had some difficulties with traveling due to his job (it was hard for him to go out of the country without getting many, many, many special permissions) and later his health.

I think NZ is probably a little different from Australia, or at least some of Australia.
 
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