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The Bishops of Southern Africa in Plenary Session
Thursday, 06 August 2009 14:21
The Bishops of Southern Africa meeting for their annual Plenary Session in Mariannhill. 28 bishops are present, among them the newly appointed bishop of De Aar, Adam Musialek, SCI, who will be ordained on 24 September 2009. The sessions officially opened by Archbishop Jabulani Nxumalo, OMI. The Plenary meeting continues until the 12th of August.
Johannesburg Diocese launches the Year of the priest
Wednesday, 05 August 2009 17:50
Archbishop Buti Tlhagale officially launched the "Year of the Priest" in his archdiocese of Johannesburg, on the day of the feast of the Curé of Ars, the 4th of August 2009. More than 60 priests participated to the celebration in the "Christ the King" Cathedral. In few words pronounced at the end of the Mass, the archbishop asked the faithful to pray more and more for vocations. Among the priests, the newly ordained Father Donald McLoughlin and two seminarians who will be ordained (priest and deacon) within this year. To see the photos of this celebration, click on "read more" below.
"For I love soup and I love eating"
Monday, 03 August 2009 13:27
Homily of the St John Vianney Seminary's Rector at the solemn first Vespers of the feast of St John Vianney in the Year of the Priest.
One of the few things I can do properly in a kitchen is to make soup. What I love about preparing it is the pealing and cutting of many different vegetables. When I can afford it, I add some meat. I love soup, come winter or summer. At the bottom of this attachment to soup must be my love for eating. Our patron, whom we celebrate solemnly tonight, had a very rigorous life of penance, of mortification of the flesh. It is well known that he ate very little. He abstained almost completely from food. His main dish was potatoes, or a piece of hard bread, or on occasion a boilt egg. He slept two hours a night, mostly. And I love my sleep, too!
New bishop for De Aar Diocese
Monday, 27 July 2009 11:32
The Holy Father appointed Fr Adam Leszek Musialek S.C.I., pastor at Pietermaritzburg in the archdiocese of Durban, South Africa, as bishop of De Aar (area 67,248, population 165,500, Catholics 5,824, priests 8, religious 27). The bishop-elect was born in Wieruszow, Poland in 1957 and ordained a priest in 1983. He succeeds Bishop Joseph James Potocnak S.C.I., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.Unusual: The Catholic Church also has its World Cup
Monday, 20 July 2009 14:44
Since February 2007, the Vatican organizes each year the Catholic football World Cup, called the Clericus Cup. It includes sixteen teams composed of priests and seminarians, reinforced by lay people working for religious orders. Players come mostly from international colleges of Rome.Servant of God Benedict Daswa: How to make a saint?
Friday, 17 July 2009 18:00
The universal call to holiness takes root in people in a particular time and a particular place. We all need models and what better way to model our Christian Life than on the lives and examples of the Saints. The first phase in the process for canonization (the recognition by the Church of the Sanctity of a particular person), is to recognize the "heroic virtue" of the life of the person. A possible saint for South Africa?
Monday, 13 July 2009 11:49
On Thursday 2nd July 2009, an historic event took place in Tzaneen as the Diocesan Inquiry into the Life and Death of the Servant of God Benedict Daswa was concluded. The final documents addressed to Archbishop Angelo Amato SDB, Prefect of the Congregation for Causes of Saints, were signed by Bishop Hugh Slattery MSC, Bishop of Tzaneen, Sr Sally Duigan OLSH, Daughter of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and Chancellor of the Diocese, Fr Andre Bohas MSC, Postulator of the Cause and Fr Eddie O'Neill SDB, the Promoter of Justice.Archbishop Buti sends his wishes to the Dutch Reformed Church
Friday, 10 July 2009 13:57
4000 people to welcome the new archbishop of Pretoria
Tuesday, 07 July 2009 12:16
About 4000 people attended the welcoming celebration for Archbishop Paul Mandla Khumalo CMM in Ga-Rankuwa, 4th July 2009. Installed in the Cathedral on the 25th January 2009, too small to welcome all catholics of the archdiocese, the new archbishop of Pretoria met the faithful during this celebration, in presence of his predecessor, Archbishop George Francis Daniel. The hall was full of people coming from all over the archdiocese and also from Kwazulu Natal, Archbishop Paul's place of birth. Most of the priests of the archdiocese concelebrated. Photos can be viewed by clicking below on "read more". More Articles...
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