Our History

“To what is The Kingdom of God like and where unto shall I resemble it?”

“It is like a grain of mustard seed (an acorn) which a woman took and cast into the garden, and it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of the air lodged in the branches thereof.”

Mark 4 30-32

This quote has its significance in the stooping of the Foundress to plant an acorn, which we think she may have brought with her from Sturry or Deal.  In a report quoted from the Pukekohe Chronicles, thirteen years after the date 18th May 1885, reads, ‘Pukekohe has all the resources necessary for a prosperous centre of trade.  There is a commodious hotel, two large boarding houses, two large stores, two carpenters, a painter, a printer, two saddlers, three blacksmiths, one tailor, two dressmakers, three wheelwrights, two bakers, a stationer and fancy goods store, two bootmakers, two doctors, one chemist and a barber’..  It could be added a Convent of Notre Dame des Missions, with a flourishing oak tree in its driveway – a centre where the Kingdom of God is rippling its wavelets outer and outer for over a hundred and twenty five years and more, all to His Glory. 

Sr Mary Lucia (former Juvenist)