Methodist-Catholic Joint Service of Repentance and Reconciliation

Rev Dr Trevor Hoggard, Orakei parish and co-covenor of the Methodist-Catholic Dialogue NZ —

Wednesday 25 October at Takapuna Methodist Church, Lake Road, Takapuna, 7.30pm.

The Methodist-Catholic Dialogue Committee has resumed meeting again after the disruption of Covid. We concede that ecumenism has slid down the agenda for many churches today, but we continue to believe that our Lord would wish us to be reconciled and able to work more closely together as a living witness to an increasingly fractured world that reconciliation across long-standing differences is achievable. The most recent report published by the Methodist Roman Catholic International Commission, God in Christ Reconciling, offers the church a Liturgy for Repentance and Reconciliation which is to be used at a joint service held on 25 October 2023 at Takapuna Methodist Church to which all Methodists and Catholics are invited. Come along and help us deliver a message of hope for better days ahead to our respective churches and to our society.