Mass Readings: 16 February – 23 February, 2020
Liturgical Calendar Year A – Weekday Cycle Year 2 Sunday February 16, 6th Sunday of the Year Sirach 15:15-20 (16-21), Psalm 119:1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34, 1 Corinthians...
Liturgical Calendar Year A – Weekday Cycle Year 2 Sunday February 16, 6th Sunday of the Year Sirach 15:15-20 (16-21), Psalm 119:1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34, 1 Corinthians...
With the youth unemployment challenge facing South Africa, the Salesian Institute Youth Projects (SIYP) is establishing new innovative programmes to launch this year. The new programmes will...
Church / Parish Life / Sacraments
by hazelelponiSC · Published January 28, 2020 · Last modified January 24, 2020
Young members of All Saints parish in Ennerdale, Johannesburg, celebrated their confirmation with Auxiliary Bishop Duncan Tsoke. (Photo: Mashadi Makhondo)
Christian Living / Church / God / Jesus
by hazelelponiSC · Published December 3, 2019 · Last modified December 1, 2019
By Mthetho George Nojekwa – Light is a natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible. It is the absence of darkness, that which is more...
Bishop Frank Nubuasah of Gaborone, Archbishop Dabula Mpako of Pretoria and Bishop Kevin Dowling of Rustenburg at Mass during the mid-year plenary of the Southern African Catholic...
Guest Editorial by Michael Shackleton – “The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers into the...
About us / Death / History of The Southern Cross
by hazelelponiSC · Published May 19, 2019 · Last modified May 17, 2019
Former Southern Cross board member Joan Williamson died on March 27 at 98. Born in 1920 in Pietermaritzburg, she was a boarder at Holy Cross Convent School...
Church / Death / Religious Life
by hazelelponiSC · Published May 18, 2019 · Last modified May 17, 2019
Oakford Dominican Sister Jerome Stützel, who was encouraged in her vocation by Padre Pio, died on March 25 at the age of 81. Born on December 3,...
Church / Feast Days / Mary / Our Lady
by hazelelponiSC · Published May 6, 2019 · Last modified September 9, 2019
The Five Saturdays devotion has been adopted in many parishes in South Africa. PAUL DE MARCO explains the background of this personal devotion. We’ve all heard of Fatima and know...
By Sr Helen-Veronica Wagner OP – Oakford Dominican Sister Charitas Bartilla died on March 27 at 97. Born Gabriela Bartilla on February 2, 1922, near Breslau (then...
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