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The date of Matariki varies because the 354-day Māori lunar calendar (with occasional intercalary months) only approximates the 365.24 day solar Gregorian solar calendar. [13] On 30 September 2021, Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Kiri Allan introduced the Te Kāhui o Matariki Public Holiday Bill to make Matariki a public holiday.
Public holidays in New Zealand in 2024 are as follows: [446] 1 January – New Year's Day; 2 January – Day after New Year's Day; 6 February – Waitangi Day; 29 March – Good Friday; 1 April – Easter Monday; 25 April – Anzac Day; 3 June – King's Birthday; 28 June – Matariki; 28 October – Labour Day; 25 December – Christmas Day ...
Labour won the election, and in February 2021 Ardern announced that Matariki would become an annual public holiday with a variable date (June or July). [11] The Matariki Public Holiday Bill received royal assent on 11 April 2022. [12] The first Matariki public holiday was observed on 24 June 2022. [13]
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Matariki Williams is a Māori curator and writer based in Whakatāne, New Zealand. [1] In 2021, she was appointed Pou Matua Mātauranga Māori, Senior Historian, Mātauranga Māori at Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage in Wellington .
Mātāmua (left), after his investiture as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Dame Cindy Kiro, at Government House, Wellington, on 24 May 2024 On 30 June 2020 Mātāmua was awarded the 2019 Prime Minister's Science Communication Prize for his work writing and speaking about Māori astronomy and Matariki.
[a] The Apology of the Augsburg Confession states that the remembrance of the saints has three parts: thanksgiving to God, the strengthening our faith, and the imitation of the saints' holy living. [b] [3] As a result, the Lutheran reformers retained a robust calendar of saints to be commemorated throughout the year.
Holy Trinity Day 8th Kiros and Abba Banuda 9th Thomas (not the Apostle) 10th Kidus Meskel (Feast of the Holy Cross) 11th Hanna we Iyaqem (St Anne and St. Joachim, parents of the Holy Virgin Mary) and Fasilides: 12th Michael the Archangel, Samuel, and Yared: 13th Feast of Igziabher Ab (God the Father) and Raphael the Archangel: 14th