SACBC Standardises Wine to Be Used at Mass
Catholic Bishops in South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland have officially endorsed a specific wine to be used during Liturgical Celebrations...
Liturgy
What Cloth Must Go On The Altar?
A sacristan recently told me about a priest who refuses to cover the altar with a full-sized cloth because he...
Pope: We Need to Change Hearts, not Just Books, to Improve Liturgy
The sacred liturgy is meant to help the people of God conform their heart, mind and actions more closely to...
Priest: People Deserve Better Liturgy
For all the reasons we can muster to explain why people stop coming to Mass, “There comes a point...
Mikyle Adams’ Passion is the Organ
By Theo Lawrence & Mary Leveson – Cape Town’s St Mary’s cathedral is fast becoming fertile ground for young organists. Its...
19th Sunday of the Year Reflection
What does it mean to have life until the age to come? All of us live as though we have...
18th Sunday of the Year Reflection
In today’s gospel story, we are given a great example of such incomprehension. The crowds that have gathered around...
17th Sunday of the Year Reflection
Fr John Allen Green OFM – I recently had lunch with someone I have known for almost five decades. He...
Ordinary Time is Anything But Ordinary
I have a difficulty regarding the naming of one part of the liturgical year which I would like to share with Southern Cross readers, to discover whether I am alone with this problem. That difficulty is the use of the word “ordinary” as in “Ordinary Time”.
