From Wednesday 10 June to Saturday 13 June, a relic of St Carlo Acutis will be visiting our diocese. Opportunities will include Eucharistic Adoration, veneration of the relic, Holy Mass, and times of prayer. Schools and parishes are encouraged to make pilgrimages during these days.

Relics are honoured as reminders of the saints and signs of the Church’s communion across time and place. This visit is intended to support prayer and devotion and to encourage people — especially young people — to pursue holiness in everyday life.

Everyone is welcome to visit the exhibition when it comes to a parish or school near you, and to consider a pilgrimage to Palmerston North during the Relic Mission. These events offer a practical way to learn more about the Eucharist and to spend time in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.

Relic Visit Programme

Wed 10 June

2pm – Relic Visit to school | Hato Pāora College Feilding

5:30pm – Welcome Mass | Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North

7pm – Talk: “The Eucharist is my Highway to Heaven | Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North

7:30pm – 9pm – Eucharistic Adoration and Relic Veneration | Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North

Please join us for the Exhibition and light refreshments

Thurs 11 June

Relic Visit to schools | Francis Douglas Memorial College, Sacred Heart Girls College New Plymouth and Cullinane College Whanganui

5:30pm – Mass | Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North

7pm – Talk: “Graces and Miracles through St Carlo’s Intercession” | Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North

7:30pm – 9pm – Eucharistic Adoration and Relic Veneration | Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North

Fri 12 June

Relic Visit to school | St Peter’s College Palmerston North

12:05pm – Mass |Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North

5:30pm – Mass | Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North

6pm – 9pm – Encounter Night | Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North

Especially for the young people of our diocese. Pizza, talk on St Carlo’s 5 Steps to Being a Saint, worship, Eucharistic Adoration and Relic Veneration. St Carlo’s witness belongs to all of us, so the young at heart are warmly invited too!

Sat 13 June

9am – Mass | Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North

10am – Talk: “An Ordinary Life becomes Extraordinary” | Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North

12pm – Talk: “Why we need St Carlo’s Witness Today” | Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North

Relic Veneration and Exhibition – ending 2pm | Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North

4:30pm – Adoration and Relic Veneration | St Mary’s Catholic Church, Taihape

5:30pm – Mass | St Mary’s Catholic Church, Taihape