You Call That Fasting? The Season Of Amazing Grace
In Lent we are called to fast—but do we fast well? FR RALPH DE HAHN reflects on the pitfalls and the graces of fasting. Many of the great spiritual writers tell us that when our acts of worship...
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7 Great Apps To Guide You Through Lent
As Lent comes into view, many Catholics may take a break from technology. Erin Carelse suggests embracing a digital Lent with some helpful apps. The season of Lent is seen as a time of...
Lent in a leap year
A leap year is a calendar year that contains an additional day. The day is added in order to keep the calendar year synchronised with astronomical events. Astronomical events do not repeat themselves in...
Lent: A Detox of the Soul
Purification, ritual cleansing and sacrifice are not words that we often hear used by Catholics these days. But, even if the words are not used, they are important concepts in our religious tradition and...
Archbishop Slattery Probes SA’s Second-Biggest Diocese
The retired archbishop of Pretoria is conducting an apostolic visitation of South Africa’s second-most populous Catholic diocese. According to a notice from the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, the request for an apostolic visitation...
The Time is 100 Seconds to Midnight
On Jan. 23, 2020 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board, together with 13 Nobel Laureate consultants, moved their famous Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds before midnight – warning how extremely near humanity is to a global catastrophic midnight posed by the increasing threats of nuclear war and climate change.
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection
But: such a small word, yet packed was so much power. Jesus uses this power today to raise our eyes from our navel-gazing to a higher level of that new horizon within the Kingdom...
Mt Nicholas Parish in Mthatha Celebrates Vocations
By Mandla Zibi – The 80-year-old Mt Nicholas parish in Mthatha diocese celebrated the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life. “The intention of celebrating the Ursuline Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary was to...
Remember Fatima’s St Jacinta
February 20 marks the centenary of the death of the youngest of the three visionaries of Fatima, St Jacinta Marto. MICHAEL OGUNU looks back at the life of this little girl of big faith.
SA Youth Day 2020 In Pretoria
Southern Africa’s third Mini World Youth Day will be held in Pretoria from December 9-13, with the formal approval of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC
Its All About Money, Even If It Hurts Us
In the name of profit at all cost, we see in the business world rather disquieting practices that effectively undermine basic human dignity. The World Health Organization reports a fall in tobacco consumption of...
Let’s Put New Pastoral Plan To Work!
The priest said: “It is not enough!” That was the take-away line of a homily at Mass a few weeks ago. The theme was the last instruction that Jesus gave to his apostles: “Go,...
