Does the Church Allow Cremation?
What is the Church’s stand on cremation? Is it OK to be cremated? There seems to be nothing in the Bible that mentions cremation. Nowadays more and...
June 2016
I Found the Benefits of the Pope’s Advice in My Garden
Some of us will occasionally feel the guilt carefully planted in childhood when our mothers, fathers or caretakers told us to clean our plates because somewhere in...
Our Yearning for the Eucharist
In the last two columns we sought to appreciate how precious the sacrament of the Eucharist is: How what we see as bread and wine has been...
Open Up Homilies to a Prayerful Laity
From Sr Judy Coyle IHM, Johannesburg -The late Benedictine liturgist Aidan Kavanagh in a small book entitled Elements of Rite wrote “one never preaches unless one has...
This Week’s Issue – 22 June – 28 June, 2016
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Mass Readings: June 26-July 3, 2016
Liturgical Calendar Year C, Weekdays Cycle Year 2 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sunday June 26 1 Kings 19:16, 19-21, Psalms 16:1-2, 5, 7-11, Galatians 5:1, 13-18,...
‘He was excluded and now he is one of us’
Flanked by a group of refugees, Pope Francis appealed to Christians to care for and welcome those whom society often excludes. oday I’m accompanied by these young...
Via Dolorosa – The Well-Trod Way of Sorrow
This well-trod path – how maddening, how wrenching to follow along it once again. Forty-nine young lives cut down in Orlando, Florida, in a collection of minutes....
Be a Generation of Hope!
Forty years ago they said: “We want better!” Forty years ago they united and walked from their schools all over Soweto to Orlando Stadium. Forty years ago...
Nuns Certainly Not Undermined
From Sr Marianne Tieber FIC, Middelburg – I am delighted reading the statement by Sr Hermenegild Makoro CPS in connection with the issue of deaconesses (May 25). I too...
