Far East Rand Catholic News celebrates Mother Teresa, Domitilla and Danny Hyams in new issue
By Kati Dijane – The Far East Rand Catholic News is a publication from the Far East Rand Deanery in the Archdiocese of Johannesburg. It aims to promote not only the spiritual and pastoral events in the deanery, but also profile the inspirational parishioners who are going above and beyond their Christian duty to make the church, and the world, a better place.
It was a monthly publication founded by Kati Dijane in 2013 under the name The Catholic Good News, but the project halted due to Covid-19. The publication, now called the Far East Rand Catholic News, is back as a quarterly newsletter and published its first issue in March 2024 with the dean of the Far East Rand, Father Chaka Motanyane, and the Archbishop of Johannesburg, His Grace Buti Tlhagale, on the cover.
Sections in the newsletter include get to know your priest – where the priests in our deanery share their journey to priesthood, as well as the history of their orders – events, profiles, saints of the month, gig guide and Sunday readings.
In this issue, in celebration of the feast of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who’s a patron saint of one of the parishes in the deanery, we shared an interview we once did with the saint’s biographer, Father Don Lush Gjergji, general vicar of the Kosovo Diocese based in Prishtina. To help promote the cause to the sainthood of Domitilla and Danny Hyams, founders of Little Eden in Edenvale in Ekurhuleni and Bapsfontein, we interviewed some of the children and grandchildren of this special couple, who shared with us about the faith and love the Hyams had for their family, community and church. Little Eden provides lifelong care to 300 children and adults with profound intellectual disability.
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