SUNDAY - DAY TWO SUMMARY
DAY TWO OVERVIEW
Wake-up call on Sunday will be at 6:00am.
You will need to quickly pack-up your belongings and put them on the luggage transport truck. Make sure your luggage is all labelled with your details, and the correctly coloured tag. There won’t be much time after mass before we depart, so make sure you’re ready to walk before you go to Mass.
Mass will commence at 7:00am. Breakfast will be served immediately after Mass at the field kitchen area. Breakfast will be continental; cereals, fruits, milk, tea and coffee.
Once you’ve had breakfast, gather with your bag at the start point for the blessing. The 1st pilgrimage chapter will depart immediately following the blessing, with the second chapter departing 10 minutes later.
The first leg of the pilgrimage is an easy 12.3km walk through an adjoining farm and along SH1. We will arrive at our first rest stop at about 12:30pm at Mudgway Hall. Here we will stop for 40 minutes and have a lunch break before carrying on.
Lunch completed, you will then walk through rolling countryside for about 6.7km to our 2nd rest stop in the Mangamuka’s. We should arrive here around 2.40pm for a 30-minute break. We will then walk along Mangamuka Road to our 3rd and last rest stop, approx. 7.6km away.
After this, we have our final leg of the day, 6.8km to Te Karae Marae and the location of St John the Baptist Church. Here we will be welcomed onto the Marae and accommodated for the night. Saint John the Baptist Church will be open 24hrs during our stay for prayer.
There will be showers available here, but due to our numbers these will be kept to 2 min durations, i.e. a basic soap up and rinse off. As there and only two shower cubicles in each block (male and female) you will need to be patient.
A limited amount of space is available for those that wish to sleep inside that night, female pilgrims and boys under the age of 12 only. Male pilgrims over the age of 12 will camp in tents.