Congratulations to William Albert Croucher and Ferdinand Niam
Lent 2015 Issue 24 Let us pray for our priests and as they celebrate their birthdays and anniversaries. Congratulations to William Albert Croucher and Ferdinand Niam Mukumu on their ordination to priesthood on Saturday 31st January 2015. ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION February 02.02.2014: Fr Shiju Poomaram MSFS They are pictured here outside Holy Rosary Cathedral Dundee, flanked by Bishop Xolelo Thaddeus Kumalo Bishop of Eshowe (longtime friend of Fr William) and Bishop Graham Rose who ordained both priests. March 14.03.1964: Fr Tony Hardiman OFM April 06.04.1983: Fr Tom Tshabalala OFM 06.04.2002: Fr Gaspart Anaba SAC 24.04.1960: Fr Benen Fahy OFM BIRTHDAYS February 04.02.1980: Fr Marek Mlynarczyk 13.02.1978: Fr Marcel Kazadi CSSp 19.02.1976: Fr Zamva Mlangeni April 12.04.1983: Fr Ikemerika Azubuike OSA 21.04.1973: Fr Andrew Moyo 29.04.1975: Fr Nkosinathi Njoko Introduction to Pope Francis' Lenten Message Dear Brothers and Sisters, OFM Would you like to advertize in this newspaper? Would you like to sponsor a page Christians are those who let God Lent is a time of renewal for the clothe them with goodness and whole Church, for each community mercy, with Christ, so as to become, and every believer. Above all it is a like Christ, servants of God and "time of grace" (2Cor 6:2). God does others. This is clearly seen in the not ask of us anything that he himself liturgy of Holy Thursday, with its rite to support our publication? has not first given us. "We love of the washing of feet. Peter did not Would you like to submit an because he first has loved us" want Jesus to wash his feet, but he (1Jn 4:19). He is not aloof from us. came to realize that Jesus does not article? Contact us by 1 May 2015, use either Each one of us has a place in his wish to be just an example of how we of the following addresses: heart. He knows us by name, he should wash one another’s feet. Only cares for us and he seeks us out those who have first allowed Jesus to whenever we turn away from him. He wash their own feet can then offer Mr Dumisani Mbokazi Dundee Diocesan Indaba Postnet Suite 95 Private Bag X6603 Newcastle 2940 Tel: 034 312 6591 Fax: 034 312 6592 [email protected] The Editor Fr Peter Cullen Sts Peter and Paul Parish PO Box 22337 Newcastle 2940 Tel: 034 312 1554 Fax: 034 312 6592 [email protected] Visit the Diocesan Website: http://www.catholic-dundee.org.za is interested in each of us; his love this service to others. Only they have does not allow him to be indifferent to "a part" with him (Jn 13:8) and thus what happens to us. Usually, when can serve others. we are healthy and comfortable, we Lent is a favourable time for letting forget about others (something God Christ serve us so that we in turn may the Father never does): we are become more like him. This happens unconcerned with their problems, whenever we hear the word of God their sufferings and the injustices they and receive the sacraments, endure… Our heart grows cold. As especially the Eucharist. There we long as I am relatively healthy and become what we receive: the Body of comfortable, I don’t think about those Christ. In this body there is no room less well off. for the indifference which so often The love of God breaks through that seems to possess our hearts. For fatal withdrawal into ourselves which whoever is of Christ, belongs to one is indifference. The Church offers us body, and in him we cannot be this love of God by her teaching and indifferent to one another. "If one part especially by her witness. But we can suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if only bear witness to what we one part is honoured, all the parts ourselves have experienced. share its joy" (1 Cor 12:26). Inkathi yokuzila yisikhathi noKristo, abasebenzela uNkulunkulu sokuvuseleleka kwebandla lonke, kanye nabanye. Lokhu sawo wonke umphakathi knaye kuyabonakala ezifundweni nekholwa. Ngaphezu kwakho konke zangolweSine oluNgcwele, labo “yisikhathi segrasiya” (2 Cor – 6:2). kuwashwa izinyawo. UPeter UNkulunkulu akasiceli lokho wayengafuni ukuthi uJesu amgeze angasiphanga kona. “siyathanda izinyawo zakhe, kodwa washesha ngoba naye esithanda” (1 Jn 4:19). wabona ukuthi uJesu akafuni nje Akaziqhelilasile nathi. Omunye ukuba yisibonelo sokuthi sigezane nomunye wethu unendawo kanjani izinyawo. Labo abavumile enhliziywebnu yakhe. Usazi ukuba uJesu abageze izinyawo ngamagama, uyasinakekela bangakwazi ukuthi bageze abanye. uyasifuna noma sidukile. Uthando Yilabo abahlangene nayo lwakhe alumvumeli ukuba abe abazokwazi ukusebenzela abanye. ngokuhlukile kokwenzeka kithi. Inkathi yokuzila yisikhathi Isikhathi esiningi uma ngabe siphila esithandekayo sokuthi uKristo futhi sihleli kakhle, siyakhohlwa asisebenzele khona sizofana naye. abanye (okuyinto uNkulunkulu Lokhu kwenzeka njalo uma sizwa angakaze ayenze): Asibi nandaba izwi likaNKulunkulu nalapho nezinkinga zabo, ukuhlupheka samukela amasakramente, kwabo. Izinhliziyo zethu ziya ikakhulukazi umzimba kaKristo. ngokubanda. Uma nje kuphela Lapho siba yilokho esikukholwayo: ngiphilile futhi ngihleli kahle, uMzimba kaKristo. Kulomzimba angicabangi ngalabo abaswele. ayikho indawo yokungahluki lokhu Uthando lukaNkulunkulu luvala okugcwele ezinhliziyweni zethu. nokhu kuzicabangela sodwa Ngoba yiloyo naloyo okaKristo, okusenza singahluki. IBandla lisinika uyingxenye yomzimba, futhi kuye uthando lukaNKulunkulu angeke singakwazi ukuzihlukanisa ngezimfundiso kanye nangofakazi. kuye. “uma ngabe ingxenye Kodwa singaba ofakazi balokho ihlupheka, nezinye izingxenye esikubonile thina uqobo. AmaKristo ziyahlupheka; uma ngabe ingxenye yilawo avumela uNKulunkulu eyodwa ihlonishwa, nezinye abambathise ngobuhle, ngomusa izingxenye ziyabelana ekujabuleni kanye noKristo, ukuze sifane kwayo. Preliminary History of Maria Ratchitz Mission Station Umlando wangaphambili weMission yase Maria Ratschitz kwakungukwakha iSt Joseph home, Besides the Motherhouse of Ngaphandle nje kwendlu enkulu ukuba athumele umpriste wakhe Mariannhill no other Mission Station yaseMariannhill ayikho enye iMission wokugcina, owayengumsizi wakhe, of the Trappist monks had such an yama-Trappist Monks enomlando uFr Pious ukuba ezosebenza interesting preliminary history as ojulile njengaloyo waseMaria kulemission entsha. Maria Ratschitz. I February 1887 Ratschitz. Ngomhlaka 1 February Mhlaka 16 November 1889 kwavulwa Abbot Francis Pfanner and Br. Nivard 1887 uAbbot Francis Pfanner kanye ngokokuqala “ iSt Joseph’s Home”. undertook in their “Spider”, (a spider- no Br. Nirvard basuka ngenqola yabo Kwaba yindlu eyayiqashiswa. Lendlu like wagon) a trip to the North of Natal “iscabucabu”, (yayifana yayingahlalisa abantu abantwana to survey the area in search of nesicabucabu) bathatha uhambo abangu 17. Kwakuba ngabantu suitable places for erecting new olwaya eNyakatho Natal ukuyobheka abangafinyelela emashumini mission stations. Before reaching umhlaba ongalungela ukwakha ayisikhombisa ababethamela iMisa Ladysmith they stopped at Wasbank iMission entsha. Ngaphambi kokuthi eliyingcwele nsukuzonke, futhi and were kindly accommodated in the bafike eMnambithi bama eWasbank ababefunda izifundo zekhathekisima. hotel “Meran". The hotel-keeper lapho bamukelwa kahle ehhotela Ukwamukelwa komnikelo ongu 100 praised his neighbour, Chief ababezohlala kulo elalibizwa pounds okwakuvela kowaseMelika Ngwenya, known by his people as ngeMeran. Umgcini mafa watusa akuzange kwanele ukuba kwakhiwe chief “Wilhelm Afrika”, calling him the kakhulu umakhelwane wakhe iNkosi isikole esisha nokusifaka izimpahla. only true African Christian. He was uNgwenya, owayaziwa ngabantu NgoMarch 1890 okuyinyanga kaSt the farm manager of 4000 acres of bakhe njengo “Wilhelm Afrika”, Joseph, isimo sashintsha saba land. Wayaziwa njengonguMkristo weqiniso ngcono. uAbbot wamemezela This was good news for the two kuphela kubantu bamaAfrika. ngokujabula ukuthi khona zealous missionaries, who had a long Wayengumnikazi wepulazi elalithatha owaseEurope ogama lakhe kungu and dangerous journey behind them. umhlaba ongu 4000 acre. Lokhu Maria Diettrich, owayezimisele iSt Joseph Church, kanye nest Joseph School. Wezwa ephoqeleka kwaba yizindaba ezimnandi ngokunikela ngo 15 000 Gulden the chief’s place. They were received the power of intercessory prayer to Bohemia, had a pilgrimage place by kumaMissinary amabili, kanye nangokunye okuningi very kindly by his daughter, but St. Josef. His dream ideas were: a St. that name. “Our Lady of Sorrows”. On ababenohmabo olude futhi oluyingozi. okwakuzosiza ekwkheni imission, disappointed by the absence of the Joseph’s home, St. Joseph’s church, the 13 July 1890 the financial plan for Ngosuku olwalandelabavakashela eyayizobi ngeMaria Ratschit. Wabe chief and his wife. Abbot Pfanner was St. Joseph’s school. He felt urged to the purchase of a farm was made. In iNkosi. Bamukelwa ngobubele esecela ukuba isonto libhekiswe very much impressed by their orderly send his only priest, the vicar general, the absence of Abbot Pfanner, Prior yindodakazi yeNkosi, kodwa ku”Mame Wetu weziNsizi”. Idolobha kept homestead. He left with an Fr. Pius, to the new mission field. Fr. Notker reported that Mr. Thattan’s baphoxeka ngokungafici iNkosi kanye lakhe eLeitmeritz enyakatho invitation for Chief Afrika to visit On the 16 November 1889 the first farm would be available for 5000 noNkosikazi wayo. UAbbot Pfanner neBohemia, kunohambo olungcwele Mariannhill Mission. Mr. Afrika, “St.Joseph’s Home” opened. It was a pounds. For the purchase the bank wahlatshwa umxhwele yindlela umuzi olwanikezwa lelogama.Mhlaka 13 July accepting the invitation, travelled from rented house. The room could only would make 2000 pounds available wawuhleleke ngayo. Wabe eseshiya 1890 uhlelo lwezimali yokuthengwa Escort train-station to accommodate 17 children. Up to 70 so Br. Nivard reported. He visited the isimemo sokuba iNkosi izovakasha kwepulazi lwavezwa. Wathi engekho Pietermaritzburg and further to adults attended daily Holy Mass and place to convene all the Africans and eMariannhill Mission. UMnumzane uAbbot Pfanner, uFr Notker wabika Mariannhill. At his 5 day stay he was received cathechetical instructions. their chief negotiators. On 14 August Afrika wamukela isimemo wabe ukuthi ipulazi likaMnumzane Thattan equally impressed, especially by the Receiving a donation of 100 pound 1890 the farm Thelaphi, which was esesukela esiteshini samaphoyisa lingathengwa ngo 5 000 pounds. high-school education that was from an American donor failed to be close to Mr. Afrika’s homestead, was Mtshezi waya ePietermaritzburg lapho Ukuze lithengwe ibhange lizokwenza offered at the mission and made enough to build a new school and bought for 5000 pounds. 2000 pounds abe esedlulela eMariannhill. ukuba u 2000 pounds utholakale plans right away to send his elder furnish it. In March 1890 the month of had to be paid immediately, 3000 Ekuhlaleni kwakhe izinsuku ezinhlanu kubika uBr Nivard. Wavakashela sons to attend Mariannhill High St. Joseph, a turning for the better pounds could be held in mortage. wahlabeka umxhwele, ikakhulukazi indawo ukuhlanganisa wonke School as soon as possible. Abbot came. The abbot announced joyfully This proved to cause great problems ngezinga lemfundo eyayinikwa amaAfrika kanye neNkosi ukuze Pfanner found the area arounf that a benefactress from Europe, by between the government and the emission, kwaba laphoke enza khona kuxoxiswane. Mhlaka 14 August 1890 Ladysmith suitable for a new mission the name Maria Diettrich, intended to church later on. After financial help izinhlelo zokuthumela amadodana ipulazi lakwaThelaphi elalisondelene station. Hoping for Mr Afrika’s donate 15000 gulden and more to from a Trappist community in France akhe amadala ukuba ayofunda nomuzi kaMnumzane Afrika assistance, which he gave for his own establish a mission station, named the mortage was accepted for eMariannhill High School masishane. lathengwa ngo 5000 pounds. chief – area. Pfanner had great plans Maria Ratchitz. She requested that purchase of the farm and the transfer U-Abbot Pfanner wathola indawo Kwadingeka ukuba u 2000 pounds as a keen missionary but no the church would be dedicated to and the occupation of the new eseduze kwaseMnambithi eyayifanele ukhokhwe masishane, u 3000 competent helpers and no money. He “Our Lady of Sorrows”. He own mission Maria Ratschitz could begin. ukuba yimission entsha. Ethembele wasetshenziselwa ukubolekisa. Lokhu set out with unlimited faith, trusting in hometown Leitmeritz in northern Sr Mary Konelma ekusizweni nguMnumzane Afrika, kwakhombisa ukuba yinkinga owamnika indawo okungeyakhe phakathi kukaHulumeni kanye Simukela uBaba Buhlebenkosi Mngwengwe eMhlumayo Parish yobukhosi. uPfanner wabe neBandla emva kweminyaka.Emva enezinhlelo ezinkulu, kodwa kokutholakala kosizo olwaluvela babengekho abamsizayo ngolwazi kumphakathi wamaTrappist eFramce futhi nemali yayingekho. Waqhubeka imali youkbolekisa yamukelwa ukuba Ngasebenza unyaka owodwa kepha enokholo olungapheliyo, ithenge ipulazi kanye nokushintsha ethembele futhi enxusa ngemikhuleko nokuhlala emission entsha kuSt Josef. Imibono yaseMariannhill kwaqala. The following day they set out to visit ngelekelela e-Our Lady of Good HelpVerulam- Archdiocese of Durban. Ngase ngisebenza e- Oetting Mission -Hlokozi- Diocese of Mariannhill unyaka owodwa ngelekelela nengu-8 ngingu-Parish Priest. Ngadlula e- St. Joseph's- Mbongolwane- Diocese of Eshowe okwesikhashana lapho ngabamba izinyanga ezimbili ). Rev. Fr. Buhlebenkosi Johannes Mngwengwe,T.O.R. eyayingamaphupho akhe Intsha yePerishi yaseZakheni ibe (2014) nonyaka omangalisayo ... nakhu okwakwenzeka .. Yintsha yaseZakheni ePark yakwa -A section lapho yayibambe igathering ngonyaka odlule 2014 Siyikomidi leperish lenhlangano yethu ngendlela esifisa ngayo ezoba yethu babe ngamaKhatholika yabantu abasha ngaphansi kwe- impumelelo. Siyikomidi sifisa akwaziyo ukusiza abanye abantu. Ezakheni Perish sifisa ukuzibophezela ekutheni okufiswa i- Esikucela kakhulu ukuba amagatsha ukugqugquzela emagatsheni ethu Perish yethu kwenzeke konke kube ethu asebenze ngokukhulu wonke ukubambisana okuhle. ukuze impumelelo futhi kube ikona okuzo ukuzinikela ukuze sizoba sizokwazi ukuthuthukisa i-Perish kwenza abantu abasha kwiPerish namagatsha aqinile futhi nazokhanda Bekuheleza umoya wenjabulo labapriste abakhiqizwe I Denary yase ngokumkhulisa ngokokholo aze afike nentokozo eDrifontein Perish, Mnambithi, nathe uNdumiso kumele kulelizinga asekulo. Uphinde egatsheni laseMbambabantu anyathele ezithendeni zabapriste wabonga iperish, yase Blessed mhlaka 11 Jan 2015, lapho uFr. ”abangogalagala”, abalandela abanye Josephe Nardini, e Ndlangubo Ndumiso Khumalo OFM enze khona ”ogalagala” babapriste ngaseMpangeni ngokumnika ithuba imisa lokubonga kulandela abakulesiFunda-Bhishobhi sase njengoba enza khona internship ukugcotshwa kwakhe ePretoria Dundee. uFr. Moyo ongumpriste we yezinyanga eziyisithupha ethwasela mhlaka 03 Jan 2015. Lolusuku Driefontein Perish udlulise amazwi ukuba umpriste. Ube esebonga beluluhle ludelile, kunezihambeli okukhuthaza uFr. Ndumiso namapherishi ngokumsekela, ezivela ezindaweni ezihlukahluke, ngohambo nezimo ikakhulukazi i Besters Parish lapho nezindela, kanti noMndeni asozohlangabezana nazo ohambeni enza khona i novitiate. Waphinde wakwaKhumalo ubuphume lwakhe lobuPriste, wamhalalisela wabonga uFr Bheki Ntombela ngobuningi bawo ukuzothokoza ngempumelelo yakhe owaqguqguzela ibizelo lakhelo iPerish eqinile. Sicela kakhulu abasha sithi kubo bengapheli emakomidini amagatsha amandla ngathi. Kuningi esikubheke ukusebenzisana okuhle futhi emagatsheni ethu ngonyaka ka 2015 okuhloniphekile. Ukusebenza and wonke lamagatsha kumele nabantu abasha akuyona into elula akwazi ukuzimela futhi akwazi kodwa kuzoba into ezosicija ukuze ukuzithuthukisa njenge nhlangano. sikwazi ukubhekana nempilo Kunamagatsha okumele aqinise ngaphandle noma emsebenzini. kakhulu 2015 futhi angahlali kakhulu Sicela kakhulu emalangeni abantu ezinkingeni kodwa ahlale kakhulu abasha kwi Perish yethu ekuthuthukiseni ibandla ukusebenzisana, ukubekezelelana, Elikhatholikha kwi Perish yethu. Kwi ukuhloniphana futhi sibe munye Perish yethu sinamagatsh amahlanu enkosini kwiPerish yethu. St Maria Magdalena, Maria Ngithanda ukubonga wonke Sangolezulu, Kwa Nina Womsindisi, amagatsha ethu onyakeni ka 2014 St Francis Kanye no St Martin ngendlela asebenze ngayo ngoba Ocwebileyo. 2015 sifisa akwazile ukwenza lokhu ukuthuthukisa iPerish yethu ikwazi ayekuthembisile kuma year plan awo. nayo ukuba sezingeni njengamanye Sifisa ukubonga kakhulu nama amaperish. Animators ethu akwazile ukusilekela Sifisa ukuthi kubantu abasha sagcina sikwazile ukuthuthukisa asimthembe unkulunkulu kuzo zonke amagatsha ethu. Sisazimisele futhi izingqinamba esibhekana nazo ukusebenza Kanye nawo. Sibonga asibekeni yena phambili umdali futhi no Fr Benen Fahy ongu baba wethu. Konke kusebenzelane ukube wethu okwaziyo kusilalela njalo uma ngokuhle kwabamthandayo. Romans kukhona esifisa ukukwenza 8:28. Ngokukhulu ukuzithoba emagatsheni ethu. Sithi nje kuwe sinifisela IPHASIKA elihle baba wethu unwele ulude. Sibonge nelibusisekile. SIMUNYE kakhulu nabazali bethu ngendima ENKOSINI….. abayidlalayo enhlanganweni yabantu JOE MABASO Sr Bongekile Madikizela made her final vows as a Franciscan Missionary of Mary on 28th December 2014 at Dutyini, Bizana. Her nendodana yawo. Bekukhona nangokuzinikela . uFr Ndumiso bupriste. Emva kweMisa, ibandla nezimenywa zasebuKhosini uzwakalise injabulo enkulu ngendlela nezinhlangano ziphe u Fr Ndumiso bakwaKhumalo kwazise iPerish yase ibandla elimamukele ngayo nendlela izipho emva kwalokho izihambeli joyful celebration of the Mass. The main celebrant was Bishop Zolile Mpambani Driefontein yakhe khona endaweni umcimbi obuhleleke ngayo. Ube namalungu ebandla bezihlelelwe SCJ, and among the priests gathered were Frs Piotr and Marek, who’d been in yesizwe saBentungwa-Kholwa Tribal esedlulisa amazwi okubonga okuya ngasethunjini, bekusindwe the parish at Mpuluzi at the time Sr Bongekile was there as a young religious. Authority. Intshumayelo yethulwe uFr. ebandleni ikakhulukazi ngobethole, kufinywa ngendololwane. Tom Shabalala OFM, nobonakalise eMbambabantu kanye nakothisha ukuzigqaja okukhulu ngenani bakhe bekhathekizima vows were received by Sr Judith Lynch FMM, provincial superior, during a Franciscan Missionaries of Mary came from afar communities to join Sr Bongekile’s family and home parish for the celebration. lack of openness to life. Every threat to the family is a threat to society Umlando kaReverend Fr Dumisani Gugulethu Mhlongo itself. The future of humanity, as St. zeTheology ngo 1998-2002, St John John Paul II often said, passes Vianney Seminary, ePitoli. through the family. So protect your Ugcotshelwe ubuDikoni ngo 7 July families! See in them your country’s 2002, eKevealar Mission. Ngo July ka greatest treasure and nourish them 2002 ube umsizi womPriste always by prayer and the grace of the eKevelaer Mission, njengoMdikoni. sacraments. Families will always Ubese esegcotshwelwa ubuPriste have their trials, but may you never ngo 16 December 2002, eSt Joseph’s add to them! Instead, be living Cathedral. Ngonyaka ka 2003 examples of love, forgiveness and usebenze njengomisizi woMpriste care. Be sanctuaries of respect for eMhlabashana Mission. Ngawo futhi life, proclaiming the sacredness of lowonyaka ka 2003 ukhethelwe every human life from conception to natural death. What a gift this would be to society, if every Christian family lived fully its noble vocation! So rise with Jesus and Mary, and set out on the path the Lord traces for each of Pope Francis speaks to families in the Philipines (and to our families as well) you. Joseph listened to the angel of the Lord and responded to God’s call to care for Jesus and Mary. In this “Dear families, dear friends in Christ, families. It is in the family that we first learn how to pray. There we come to “The Scriptures seldom speak of St. know God, to grow into men and Joseph, but when they do, we often women of faith, to see ourselves as find him resting, as an angel reveals members of God’s greater family, the God’s will to him in his dreams. I Church. would like to rest in the Lord with all In the family we learn how to love, to of you, and to reflect with you on the forgive, to be generous and open, not gift of the family. “Joseph’s rest closed and selfish. We learn to move revealed God’s will to him. In this beyond our own needs, to encounter moment of rest in the Lord, as we others and share our lives with them. pause from our many daily That is why it is so important to pray obligations and activities, God is also as a family! That is why families are speaking to us. He speaks to us in so important in God’s plan for the the reading we have just heard, in our Church! Those precious moments of prayer and witness, and in the quiet repose, of resting with the Lord in of our hearts. Let us reflect on what prayer, are moments we might wish the Lord is saying to us. to prolong. But like St. Joseph, once “Resting in the Lord. Rest is so we have heard God’s voice, we must necessary for the health of our minds rise from our slumber; we must get up and bodies, and often so difficult to and act. Faith does not remove us achieve due to the many demands from the world, but draws us more placed on us. But rest is also deeply into it. Each of us, in fact, has essential for our spiritual health, so a special role in preparing for the that we can hear God’s voice and coming of God’s kingdom in our understand what he asks of us. world. “Just as the gift of the Holy Joseph was chosen by God to be the Family was entrusted to Saint foster father of Jesus and the Joseph, so the gift of the family and husband of Mary. As Christians, you its place in God’s plan is entrusted to too are called, like Joseph, to make a us. The angel of the Lord revealed to home for Jesus. You make a home Joseph the dangers which threatened for him in your hearts, your families, Jesus and Mary, forcing them to flee your parishes and your communities. to Egypt and then to settle in “To hear and accept God’s call, to Nazareth. So too, in our time, God make a home for Jesus, you must be calls upon us to recognize the able to rest in the Lord. You must dangers threatening our own families make time each day for prayer. But and to protect them from harm. you may say to me: Holy Father, I “The pressures on family life today want to pray, but there is so much are many. While all too many people work to do! I must care for my live in dire poverty, others are caught children; I have chores in the home; I up in materialism and lifestyles which am too tired even to sleep well. This are destructive of family life and the may be true, but if we do not pray, we most basic demands of Christian will not know the most important thing morality. The family is also of all: God’s will for us. And for all our threatened by growing efforts on the activity, our busy-ness, without prayer part of some to redefine the very we will accomplish very little. “Resting institution of marriage, by relativism, in prayer is especially important for by the culture of the ephemeral, by a way he played his part in God’s plan, and became a blessing not only for the Holy Family, but a blessing for all of humanity. With Mary, Joseph served as a model for the boy Jesus as he grew in wisdom, age and grace. When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world. God’s love becomes present and active by the way we love and by the good works that we do. We extend Christ’s kingdom in this world. And in doing this, we prove faithful to the prophetic ukuba abe uMelukeki we Legion of U Reverend Father Dumsani Mary. Uphinde wakhethwa waba Gugulethu Mhlongo uzalwe ngo 19 iRepresentative yeSchool Governing May 1970, eSwazini ezalwa Body eButhathubunye School nguSamuel Mbongwa Mhlongo beno eMhlabashana. Ngonyaka ka 2004 Amy Nomantaliyane Dlamini. kuya ku-2010 usebenze njengeParish Bebeyisithupha kwabo abafana Priest eSt Catherine’s Mission, ababili namantombazane amane. eBulwer. Ngo 2010 kuya ku-2011 Ufunde amabanga aphansi eSwazini, usebenze njengeParish Priest Peak Piggs Nazarene (grade 1 and eLotheni,eStepmore Ngonyaka ka- 2), St Francis Primary School 2011 uthunyelwe ukuba ayosebenza Standard 1), Springvale Combined kuSifundabhishobhi saseDundee. School (Standard 2- Standard 5), Usebenze oPhongolo Parish kusuka Siyakhula Secondary School ( Form ku-2011 kuya ku-2013 njengoMpriste 1 - Form 3), Mqhakama High School ophethe. Ngonyaka ka 2013 kuya (Form 4 - Form 5). Ngenxa yempilo ku-2014 usebenze eDannhauser eSt ubuye waya eSt Mary’s Seminary, Paul Parish. Udlule emhlabeni emva eXopo ukuyoqedela khona. kokugula isikhashana esincane mhla Ngonyaka ka 1995 uqale izifundo zingu 10 December 2014. Ushiye zakhe zobuPriste eSt Francis Xavier emhlabeni unina Nomantaliyane Seminary, eCape Town. Ube Dlamini no Samuel Mbongwa eseqala iPhilosophy Programme eSt Mhlongo, nodadewabo abathathu Peter’s Seminary ngonyaka 1996- nomfowabo oyedwa. 1997, ePitoli. Uqale izifundo mission which we have received in baptism. I would ask you, as families, to be especially mindful of our call to be missionary disciples of Jesus. This means being ready to go beyond your homes and to care for our brothers and sisters who are most in need. I ask you especially to show concern for those who do not have a family of their own, in particular those Bishop’s Calender who are elderly and children without parents. Never let them feel isolated, alone and abandoned, but help them to know that God has not forgotten them. You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church. Do not hide your faith; do not February 07 Pomeroy – Augustinian Sisters Superior General visit 11/12 Maria Ratschitz – re Development of Pilgrimage 14 Newcastle – Year of Consecrated Life 16 Volksrust – Diocesan Priests 17 Newcastle - Arrival of Tyburn Nuns 19 Johannesburg – Little Eden Foundation 25 Dundee – MSFS Superior General Visit hide Jesus, but carryhim into the world and offer the witness of your family life! March 03 Newcastle – Consultors 07 Newcastle – Catechuments Fr Rocco 11 Newcastle – Sisizakele Blessing of School Hall 12 Pietermaritzburg – RC/Anglicans ARCIC 19 Vryheid – Catholic Schools Office 26 -27 Johannesburg – Wedding April 14 Durban – Glenmore Metropolitan Bishops 19 Kriel – Confirmation 27 Pretoria – Archbishop George Daniel Celebration
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