Christian Living / Feast Days / Holiness and Sanctification / Pope Francis
by hazelelponiSC · Published November 4, 2018 · Last modified November 3, 2018
Saints include simple people “from next door, our relatives and acquaintances who now are part of that ‘immense multitude’” in heaven, he said, which makes the feast of All Saints “a family celebration.” “Saints...
Lord God, you are the glory of believers and the life of the just. Your son redeemed us by dying and rising to life again. Since our departed brothers and sisters believed in the...
By Michael Ogunu – According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, all those who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death...
On August 15, Catholics around the world mark the feast of the Assumption of Mary — and on August 19, South African Catholics have a second opportunity to celebrate the country’s patronal feast as in our region it is transferred to the nearest following Sunday.
Church / Feast Days / Simmermacher / The Holy Land
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published August 11, 2018 · Last modified August 8, 2018
Tradition holds that the Transfiguration of Jesus took place on Mount Tabor, the 586 metre-high bluff which overlooks the Jezreel (or Esdraelon) plains.
On August 6, the Church celebrates the feast of the Transfiguration, the event when Jesus was transfigured, his face shining as the sun and his garments becoming white as the light before the prophets...
Church / Feast Days / Parish Life / Saints
by Erin Carelse · Published August 5, 2018 · Last modified August 2, 2018
St Maria Goretti parish in Worcester, Western Cape, celebrated its feast day and the 8th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood of Fr Francis Malaka. The congregation of St Anne’s in Zwelethemba was invited...
St John Bosco parish in Robertsham, Johannesburg, celebrated the feast of Our Lady Help of Christians with a procession through the streets surrounding the church. Parishioners all took turns to carry the plinth with...
Church / Eucharist / Feast Days / Fr John Allen Green
by asiel · Published June 3, 2018 · Last modified June 1, 2018
Fr John Allen Green OFM – Our first window opens on March 18, 1958. Thomas Merton’s experience in Louisville happened in the middle of an ordinary day when Merton was running errands for the...
Eucharist / Feast Days / Fr Ralph de Hahn
by Kilian SC · Published June 2, 2018 · Last modified May 31, 2018
There are great volumes of books and articles published on the mystery of the Blessed Eucharist, and still, with this treasure within our grasp, with all our weekly and even daily Masses, many of us still struggle to believe, accept and live the mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ.
Christian Living / Church / Feast Days / Fr John Allen Green / Trinity
by asiel · Published May 27, 2018 · Last modified May 25, 2018
Fr John Allen Green OFM – Many, many years ago, before I was due to be solemnly professed into religious life, I had a most disturbing dream of standing before my superior at Mass;...
Celebrating Mass in St Peter’s Basilica, the pope said the Bible, especially the Acts of the Apostles, makes it clear that the Holy Spirit brings a real power to change to individuals and the church.
