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		<title>Are Saints Models to Emulate or Little Gods?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Evans Chama]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 05:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img width="420" height="280" src="https://www.scross.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/LittleGods2022-420x280.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://www.scross.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/LittleGods2022-420x280.jpg 420w, https://www.scross.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/LittleGods2022-744x496.jpg 744w, https://www.scross.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/LittleGods2022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.scross.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/LittleGods2022-720x480.jpg 720w, https://www.scross.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/LittleGods2022-520x347.jpg 520w, https://www.scross.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/LittleGods2022-320x213.jpg 320w, https://www.scross.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/LittleGods2022.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px" />In preparation for my ministry in the priesthood, I spent some months in a parish. Something quickly caught my attention: [&#8230;]
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		<title>Towards an African Pentecost!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Evans Chama]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2017 07:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the end of the African Synod II in October 2009 the reaction of the participants was like: Were our [&#8230;]
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		<title>A Greek Orthodox Giant of Unity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Evans Chama]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Aristokles Spyrou was born in 1886, in Greece. After completing his seminary education he was ordained a deacon in 1910 [&#8230;]
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		<title>The Border-Crossing Pope</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Evans Chama]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2015 05:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a young priest, Fr Giovanni Montini was appointed to serve in the pope’s diplomatic mission in Poland. One experience [&#8230;]
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		<title>How St John XXIII Worked for Unity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Evans Chama]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2015 05:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The late motivational speaker Leo Buscaglia said: The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes [&#8230;]
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		<title>A Group that shows how Unity Works</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Evans Chama]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2015 05:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So far in this series I have looked at particular “Saints of Christian Unity”, but this month I’d like to [&#8230;]
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		<title>The Patroness of Christian Unity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Evans Chama]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2015 05:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This month I&#8217;d like to introduce to you the patroness of Christian unity, Maria Gabriella Sagheddu. She was born in [&#8230;]
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		<title>The Father of Modern Ecumenism</title>
		<link>https://www.scross.co.za/2015/02/the-father-of-modern-ecumenism/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Evans Chama]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 05:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Paul Couturier was born in France in 1881 to a family of a Jewish background and grew up among Muslims [&#8230;]
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		<title>Dom Lambert&#8217;s Long Exile</title>
		<link>https://www.scross.co.za/2015/01/dom-lamberts-long-exile/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Evans Chama]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2015 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Octave Beauduin was born in 1873 in Belgium. At 33, as a diocesan priest, he became a Benedictine monk at [&#8230;]
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