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A passion for the Lord’s prayer
From: Loz Hayden, Broederstroom, Gauteng
Michael Shackleton’s Open Door article, “Clarifying doxology” (February 16) responds to the question “Why do we say the doxology of the Lord’s Prayer during Holy Mass only, and not on a daily basis?”.
30 March – 5 April, 2011
Headlines
» Interview with SA’s blind-deaf priest
» Medjugorje: 30 years after first ‘apparition’
» New law ‘will harm’ skills growth
» Archbishop Tlhagale on mixed marriages
» Ngara: How is God calling you?
This Week’s Editorial
A time for Catholic radio
A time for Catholic radio
Catholics in many countries across Africa take it for granted that they have access to a radio station that communicates their faith. Indeed, some African countries have more than one Catholic radio station.
The terrorist. The Vatican. The sign
It was a cold and rainy day in Rome. Ominous black clouds raced over the Eternal City bringing joy only to the river Tiber in anticipation of a deluge that would swell it from a late summer trickle into a raging torrent. A wall of water that would sweep away the ugly algae clinging to piers and bridges and wash the detritus of mankind left on its banks by millions of tourists.
Tooth mugs and justice
I recently spent some time at two very different locations: one a retreat centre (lovely setting but pretty basic), the other a beautiful four-star holiday resort with pretty much all the mod-cons one could wish for.
The sacrament of unity
BY MGR PAUL NADAL
One of the most important things to come out of the Second Vatican Council was the Church’s understanding of herself. According to Lumen Gentium, the Church is the “sacrament of the unity of mankind”.
Part 5: The desert life
The Holy Land is tiny. It covers about half the size of Mpumalanga — and that’s South Africa’s second smallest province. With that in mind, the geological and meteorological variations in the region are striking. Our group of Southern Cross pilgrims left the fertile Galilee, and before we could catch our breath, we were in the desert, where the sun shines hotter and the air is drier and not much grows.
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23 March – 29 March, 2011
Headlines
» Call on Christians to be vegetarians
» What Pope Benedict wrote in his new book
» Mary at the Cross a model for adulthood
» Preaching better to the youth
» Moerdyk on a scruffy reject in the Vatican
This Week’s Editorial
Reverence at Mass
Your personal saviour and mine
From: John Lee, Johannesburg
A happy, recent development in our priests’ homilies (and in Pope Benedict’s talks) is the frequency with which reference is made to the urgency for a personal relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ.
Reverence at Mass
The recent correspondence in this newspaper on the subject of music in the liturgy and the on-going debate about the new translations in the English missal have been vigorous and occasionally perhaps even polarising. Even so, these discussions show that for many the Mass and its liturgy still matters a great deal.
