Church / Parish Life / Pilgrimage
by asiel · Published October 10, 2018 · Last modified October 9, 2018
Cape Town pilgrims at Ngome Marian shrine in KwaZulu-Natal came from the parishes of St John Bosco in Westridge, St Theresa’s in Welcome Estate, Mater Dei in Parow Valley, St Mary Magdalene in Lentegeur, and St...
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published October 9, 2018 · Last modified October 8, 2018
The Southern Cross pilgrimage to Ireland in August was a journey of faith with moments of tourism — and sometimes the two happily coincided, as Günther Simmermacher found. The Southern Cross pilgrimage to Ireland...
Mary / Our Lady / Pilgrimage
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published October 2, 2018 · Last modified October 3, 2018
Unlike most other Marian apparitions, that in Knock was silent. Having visited Knock as part of the Southern Cross pilgrimage to Ireland in August, GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHERreflects on the shrine. There have been reported...
After going on pilgrimage in Ireland last month, Southern Cross editor GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER found a diminished but still present Church. The scene: a pub in Dublin’s Nassau Street, near Holy Trinity College and Grafton...
In August, a group of Southern Cross pilgrims, led by Bishop Victor Phalana of Klerksdorp, travelled to Ireland, with the itinerary framed around the anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady at Knock in the west of the country, and the papal Mass to close the World Meeting of Families in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.
Two East London parishes went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The group from St Francis Xavier parish in Pefferville and St Martin de Porres parish in Buffalo Flats was led by St Francis...
One needn’t go to Spain for a Camino: a local walking pilgrimage is available on the trail of Abbot Pfanner in KwaZulu-Natal. JUDITH SHIER describes her experience and that of her fellow pilgrims of...
A group from Bryanston parish in Johannesburg on the shore of the Sea of Galilee during their Holy Land pilgrimage, led by Frs Keith Gordon-Davis and Theo Macupe, and guided by Gaby Makhlouf, a...
In the final of his three articles on sites of the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Holy Land, Günther Simmermacher visits the places in Jerusalem where the Church was ‘born’, where Mary fell into eternal sleep, and from where she was assumed into heaven.
By Ezzy Seabelo – On the day before Palm Sunday, the community of St Peter’s church in Tlhabane, led by parish priest Fr Peter Ackappady, braved the boiling heat and walked for 6km from the...
Christian Living / Church / God / Jesus / Pilgrimage / Youth
by Caleb SC · Published February 20, 2018 · Last modified February 22, 2018
My wife Charmaine and I had the privilege of walking the last 220km of the Camino in north-west Spain over a ten-day period recently. There are many blessings we received along the way: We grew close to a group of fellow young pilgrims who shared their lives and stories with us….
by Raymond Perrier · Published November 11, 2017 · Last modified November 7, 2017
I was involved in a profound experience like this a few months ago when we organised two consecutive Saturdays of driving around KwaZulu-Natal in the footsteps of Archbishop Denis Hurley, the long-time head of Durban archdiocese who died in 2004 after whom the centre I work for was named.
