Foot-Washing Rite at Holy Thursday Mass
The foot-washing ceremony on Holy Thursday is perhaps one of the most meaningful of the Sacred Triduum’s liturgical moments. It has been made even more significant now....
Category: Perspectives
‘I Want To Take Catholic Gospel To New Heights’
Having released her debut album, Catholic gospel singer Thuso Wa Sibini believes there is an audience for singers like her outside the Church, as she told Daluxolo Moloantoa....
Pray with the Pope: April 2021
Prayer Intention: We pray for those who risk their lives while fighting for fundamental rights under dictatorships, authoritarian regimes and even in democracies in crisis. It would...
Locked-Down Church: Alone and Together
It is close to one year since our lives were turned upside down by Covid-19. Since last March, during various stages of lockdown, we have repeatedly experienced...
Self-emptying, Humility & Love: Palm Sunday
Am I ready to triumphantly enter Jerusalem? Am I ready to die with Christ on Good Friday and rise with Christ on Easter? If it is yes, then it requires three aspects: Self-emptying, Humility, and Obedience
Palm Sunday Reflection
RE-ESPOUSING AND ANOINTING Palm Sunday – 2021 (Mark 11:1-10) The gathering of the great crowds, singing together, processing together, in remembrance we also enter into this now...
Four Things We Learn from the Annunciation
The feast of the Annunciation marks the moment of God becoming human. Prof Michael Ogunu suggests four points for reflection. At the very instant when Mary consented to...
A New Covenantal life of Glory & Love: 5th Sunday Lent
Sermon by Emmanuel Suntheni OSB 5th Sunday of Lent Theme: “A New Covenantal life of Glory & Love” Point of reflection: As Christians, we are called...
Was St Joseph Chaste?
Question: I would like to know whether St Joseph was celibate during his marriage to Mary. Was the marriage never consummated? Answer: The Catholic Church holds that...
5th Sunday in Lent Reflection
The veil is slowly drawn back. Imagine, imagine… a place, a time of the fellowship of communion, a Camelotian world in which the cherished structures of hierarchical...
A Passover Journey-through the Seattle Stations
One of my pastimes on a holiday by the sea is to spend a couple of hours beachcombing. Depending on the location, it can be a rewarding...
Lent’s Radical Call to Each Person and Every Nation
“Repent and believe in the Gospel” – the call we received from Christ on Ash Wednesday – is a radical call, the most important call we will...
