Mission Accomplished: The Ascension of the Lord
Sermon by Emmanuel Suntheni OSB Theme: Mission Being Accomplished (Entrustment of Mission): “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to the whole creation” NB:...
Category: Mission
Irish Missionaries in South Africa – Poverty, Chastity and (d)is-Obedience
A new documentary charts the experience of Irish missionaries under apartheid and afterwards. Günther Simmermacher watched the film — and recommends it. Missionaries from many countries...
The Story of a Church-Builder
The Catholic Church in South Africa was built by great missionaries. Daluxolo Moloantoa looks at the amazing life of one of them, Fr Camillus De Hovre OMI on...
Sent to South Africa by ‘The Voice’
Precious Blood Sister Maria Corda Waldhoer recalls her vocation story: I was born in rural Austria on July 25, 1940, at the beginning of World War II....
A Day in The Life of a Religious Sister
What happens in the daily life of a religious Sister. Sr Ann-Marie Nichols of Cape Town tells of her day as a Schoenstatt Sister. Many ask: What do you...
The Amazon Basin: Mission in the Middle of Nowhere
Why is the Church having a Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region? Barbara Fraser looks at the challenges of missionaries working in a lawless region so...
What SA Will Do for Mission Month 2019
One special task for Southern Africa’s Church during October’s Extraordinary Mission Month is to understand what the missionary discipleship actually means, according to the head of the...
Pope Opens Missionary Month with Call to Share Joy, Hope, Talents
By Carol Glatz – God wants everyone to take a risk to share with others the gifts he has given to them – their life, talents and...
Pray With the Pope: October 2019
Pope’s Prayer Intention: That the breath of the Holy Spirit might engender a new missionary “spring” in the Church. The world, said Bl John Henry Newman, “grows...
October is The Extraordinary Missionary Month 2019!
In the decades following the ravages of the Napoleonic Wars, the Catholic Church developed a tremendous missionary dynamic and engaged in one of the most successful...
St Joseph’s Raises Funds for Conference Centre
The papal nuncio addressed the inaugural Bishop Barry Wood OMI Business Breakfast, which is planned to become an annual event to raise funds for the development of St Joseph’s Theological Institute (SJTI) at Cedara, near Pietermaritzburg.
Book on missionaries killed in Zim war tells untold story
The late Fr Ted Rogers deserves credit for having taken a bold step to acknowledge the missionaries who were killed during the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean war of independence.
