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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces Auckland will rejoin the rest of the country at alert level 1 at midnight on Monday, February 22. “Lent still began on Ash Wednesday, that 40-day period leading up to Easter did begin,” Freer said. “Lent is a very special time in the life of the church, it’s one of the most important times in the annual calendar. “It will be wonderful to be able to get back to normal.”
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Auckland Unitarian Church services were taken online during the recent level 3 lockdown. Smaller congregations, with fewer than 100 people, were able to return to worship under alert level 2, but Freer said 70 continued to be affected.