This Week’s Issue: 2 May – 8 May, 2018
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Golden Jubilees for Two Daughters of the Immaculate Heart
Two Sisters of the Daughters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Witbank diocese celebrated their golden jubilees. (From left)
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Mass readings
Mass Readings: 6 May – 13 May, 2018
Liturgical Calendar Year B Weekday Cycle 2 Sunday May 6, 6th Sunday of Easter Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48, Psalm
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Baptism Church Holy Spirit Pope Francis
Pope: The Holy Spirit, Not Magic, Protects People from Evil
Those who receive the sacrament are given the strength to overcome “the temptation to separate from God, from his will, from communion with him and fall into the snares of worldly seductions,” the pope said during his weekly general audience.
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Jesus’ Agony Over the Weight of Sin
In one of his columns, Fr Ron Rolheiser OMI mentions the reason for Jesus’ agony in the garden. He says that it was not easy for Jesus to link with a divine source outside himself in prayer. He then concludes that this was the reason for his agony in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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US Catholic School Removes Cosby Name from Building
St Frances Academy in Baltimore has removed the name of its “Drs. Camille and Bill Cosby Community Center” after Bill Cosby was convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman. The letters on the building came down the same day.
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Fr David Rowan SJ to Head Consecrated Life Body (LCCL)
Fr David Rowan SJ, Jesuit regional superior in South Africa, has been elected president of the umbrella body for religious
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More Americans Believe in a Higher Power than in God, study says
A new Pew Research Centre survey has some interesting takeaways. While the majority of Americans say they believe in a higher power, what they are talking about isn’t necessarily God “as described in the Bible.”
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Winter Living Theology 2018: Bridging the Gap Between Faith and Society
Fr Bryan Massingale was invited to meet one of the key works of the Jesuit Institute: to bridge the gap between faith and society – this he will do in the Winter Living Theology series of lectures…
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