WelCom May 2024
Parishioners, past-parishioners and friends of the former Sacred Heart Parish of Reefton are invited to our 150-year celebrations over the weekend of 17, 18 and 19 May.
Programme
Friday 17
6pm: Meet and Greet with eats at Presbytery or Dawsons.
Saturday 18
10am: Visit Sacred Heart Church for an insight into the parish story through 150 years. Visit Sacred Heart School, share stories of the old school and the current one.
Midday lunch: Broadway Tearooms or Dawson’s.
2pm: Visit Reefton Cemetery, short stories of early settlers and visit relatives on the grounds.
5pm: Celebration Mass.
6pm: Dinner at Dawsons.
Sunday 19
10am: Morning tea at Broadway Tearooms and goodbyes.
NB: Meals at the Tearooms and Dawsons at own expense.
Please bring photographs of the churches in Reefton, Ikamatua, Murchison, Inangahua, Waiuta, and Cronadun, as well as of the old assembly hall, convent, old school, presbytery, people, gatherings etc.
Register your interest by NOW with:
Tony Fortune: tonyfortune52@xtra.co.nz ph (03) 7328-639; or Bernadette Snowden: berna.cat.snowden@xtra.co.nz ph (03) 732-8915; or Margaret Prince: margaret@reefton.nz ph 027 6311093.