Memories of My Dear Friend, Jean Vanier
Moira Gillmore, Durban – Jean Vanier, the founder of the L’Arche communities and Faith and Light, who died on May 7, and I became friends after he had visited South Africa in the...
Category: Christian Living
Christian Living – walking in the Kingdom of God. Living life Coram Deo – before the face of God requires us to have a healthy prayer life, sound doctrine, Gospel -centred repentance and gratitude and a fruitful involvement in the Body of Christ, that is, Church and the sacraments.
What it Means to have Freedom
I turned my eyes to behold the sapphire waves in front of me. My toes wiggled in the sand and the sun covered my skin. I walked to the water and felt the sand...
Packed Schedule for Visiting Benedictine Meditation Priest
On his visit to South Africa from September 5-16, Fr Laurence Freeman will present ten seminars and other events in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. The director and spiritual leader of the World Community...
Mary Magdalene and Me
I share a birthday with Mary Magdalene – her feast day that is. In his article “How an Apostle Was Slandered” Günther Simmermacher provides some very useful insights into how and why the image...
Astronauts Found God in Space
I didn’t realise there was a moon-landing Bible verse until my priest mentioned it a few weeks ago. It seems that while returning from the historic first landing on the moon 50 years ago,...
Plans for SA Taizé Meeting Gather Pace
The deadline to register for the international Taizé Meeting taking place in Cape Town in September is approaching fast, and preparations are gathering pace. The Taizé Pilgrimage of Trust is expected to draw 4000-5000...
Conversion Can Change the World!
The film Amazing Grace (2006) recounts the efforts by William Wilberforce to convince late-18th century England to abolish the international slave trade. But it wasn’t Wilberforce’s plight that draws my attention, but rather the...
Amalia Snyman: Senior Citizen of the Year
Amalia Snyman, 98, of Maria Regina parish in Lyttelton, Pretoria, was presented with the Senior Citizen of the Year award at the annual general meeting of the Centurion Council for the Aged. She is...
Are there Limits to Freedom of Speech?
It had been long time coming. I finally gathered enough strength to leave our local community’s social media page. Not only was this forum for our suburb slowly making me detest my community, but...
Independence Day 2019: Where Do We Go From Here?
US-based Tony Magliano looks at his country’s birthday – July 4th, Independence Day – and sees that sometimes slogans and rose-coloured glasses don’t make a country great… A birthday is naturally a time to...
Pope: Are Our Christian Communities Places of Welcome?
By Junno Arocho Esteves – To be part of a Christian community is to belong to a group of believers who shun selfishness and give witness to God’s love by loving and caring for...
New Jesuit Film Focuses on SA’s Murder Capital
The Jesuit Institute has launched a new documentary on people’s experience of crime in one of Cape Town’s most notorious townships. Titled Cape Town Exposed Beyond the Beaches, the film is freely available on...
