ART & ARCHITECTURE: ST JOSEPH’S, TE PUNA TAILA BURTON-GOLLOP
We begin a series which will look at different churches around the diocese. If you’d like to write about your parish church, drop us a line.
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tanding inside St Joseph’s, Te Puna, just north of Tauranga, I feel a million miles away from the churches that I usually visit for Sunday Mass, but in the same breath, couldn’t feel more like home. This church holds a special place in my heart. Though it may not be my parish nor has it ever been, it is the church where my beloved Grandad and late Grandmother said
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their marriage vows in front of God and all their family. It became my Gran’s favourite church, and was where she asked her children to take her for Mass when she became too ill to take herself. My Gran passed away eighteen months before I got to meet her, but I feel as though she is with me when I am sitting in the pews of St Joseph’s. St Joseph’s boasts beautiful taonga all throughout, with the
