Mass Readings: 11 February – 18 February, 2024
Liturgical Calendar Year B – Weekday Cycle Year II Sunday February 11, 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Lv 13: 1-2. 44-46/ Ps 32: 1-2. 5. 11 (7)/...
Ash Wednesday
Unexpected Miracles
Dear Reader, Our cover story this month is on Lourdes, the site of Our Lady’s reported apparitions in 1858 to the peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous. Apart from...
How We Can Serve the Church in Lent
The annual Lenten Appeal is an institution in the Southern African Catholic Church. Fr Hugh O’Connor explains why it is so important that Catholics support the Lenten Appeal...
Pope: Lenten journeys require effort, sacrifice, focusing on God
By Carol Glatz, CNS – Tradition is a source of inspiration for seeking out new paths to take with Jesus and for avoiding the traps of stagnation...
Ash Wednesday Prayer
Prayer for the observance of Ash Wednesday, the penitential day that begins the season of Lent
Mass Readings: 19 February – 26 February, 2023
Liturgical Calendar Year A – Weekday Cycle Year 1 Sunday February 19, 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time Lv 19:1-2. 17-18/ Ps 103:1-2. 3-4. 8. 10. 12-13 /...
Ash Wednesday at St David’s Marist Inanda
Ash Wednesday at St David’s Marist Inanda celebrated by Fr Brian Mhlanga OP. The school prayed for Ukraine as per the wishes of Holy Father Pope Francis....
Ash Wednesday at Marist Brother Linmeyer
Marist Brothers Linmeyer celebrated Ash Wednesday. After liturgy readings and a talk by Fr Eduardo Gabriel CS, staff, students and parents received ashes on their foreheads to...
Pope on Ash Wednesday: Those who seek worldly rewards never find peace
By Carol Glatz – Prayer, charity and fasting have a medicinal power to purify oneself, help others and change history, Pope Francis wrote in a homily read...
Pope’s Message for Lent: Do good unto others, ditch digital addictions
By Carol Glatz – Christians must persevere in generously doing good in the world, bolstered by prayer and by fighting evil in their own lives, including an...
