Episode 17: Catholicism & Te Ao Māori with Hemi Ropata
Curiously Catholic
In this week's episode of Curiously Catholic, we interview Hemi Ropata, a 4th year Marist seminarian. Coming from a Maori Anglican background in Ōtaki, before lapsing into Agnosticism, Hemi encountered the Mass and the deep peace he found in it. Hemi journeyed and was accepted into the Catholic Church in 2014. Hemi and Dom discuss the challenges and similarities unifying Te Ao Māori and Catholicism in Aotearoa. Similarities touched on include: whanau, hospitality, ritual, prayer, whakawhaungatanga, beliefs on the human person and whakapapa all feature in this episode. Below is a link to Pope St John Paul the Great's Homily of 1986 in Auckland NZ https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1986/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19861122_auckland-nuova-zelanda.html ----- Curiously Catholic is an Evangelion production and is one of the many things the apostolate is doing to share the truth of the gospel with the love of Christ. Check us out at evangelion.co.nz
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Welcome to Curiously Catholic an Evangelion production. In this podcast we are going to be picking the brains of Catholic enthusiasts to try and get to the bottom of how to live truly as a Catholic in contemporary times.
There will be a particular emphasis on the Great Commission (Matt 28:,16-20) where Jesus empowers the Disciples to go and spread the faith to the ends of the earth, well, welcome to the end of the earth... New Zealand. This is our mission territory, we know what we have to do, how do we do it? Well you Curious Cats join this Curious Catholic on a mission to find out so that the whole world might come to know Christ and the fullness of the Church He instituted in the Catholic Church. God Bless