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You have the power to set the world on a different path

By Ursula Collings

Speech presented by Ursula Collings Chairperson of the Diocesan Pastoral Council for the Archdioceses of Durban at the MWYD for 2017 at the Mass celebrating the  Feast of the Immaculate Conception

“Your Eminence Cardinal Wilfred Napier, in his absentia the Nuncio Peter Wells, President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference Archbishop Steven Brislin, fellow bishops, Priests, Deacons, Nuns, guests and especially to you the pilgrims for 2017: Good morning beautiful people of God and a happy feast day to you all! Continue reading “You have the power to set the world on a different path” →

Benedict Daswa, first South African martry

Benedict Daswa, first South African martry

The beatification of BenediBenedictDaswact Daswa will take place on Sunday 13 September 2015 at Benedict Daswa Shrine Site in Tshitanini near Thohoyandou (17 kms north -east of the Thohoyandou Stadium) in the Limpopo Province,South Africa.The representative of Pope Francis at the celebration will be His Eminence Angelo Cardinal Amato SDB,the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
For more information go to the link below on the bishop’s blog
Other articles have been published on the South African media (click on the title to read them)
A reminder that saints walk among us (Mail and Guardian) (02 April 2015)
Benedict Daswa (Articles’ archive on The Southern Cross)

 

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"Wake up the world" by Bishop Barry Wood OMI

“Wake up the world” by Bishop Barry Wood OMI

1Pope Francis announced that 2015 will be a year dedicated to the promotion of consecrated life, and is asking the church’s religious sisters, brothers and priests to “wake up the world” with their testimony of faith, holiness and hope.
During the plenary session of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Bp Barry Wood OMI, auxiliary bishop of Durban, linked Marks’s Gospel to the year of consecrated life.
He said that in today’s Gospel we see that Jesus “irritated his relatives and friends … Pope Francis has told us that the purpose of consecrated life is to wake up the world, shake up the world … Many don’t like to be woken up…”

Clicking below you can listen to Bp Barry Wood’s homily on Mark 3: 20 – 21

“Jesus went home, and once more such a crowd collected that they could not even have a meal. When his relatives heard of this, they set out to take charge of him, convinced he was out of his mind.”

#SACBC Pastoral statement on "the year of consecrated life"

#SACBC Pastoral statement on “the year of consecrated life”

PASTORAL LETT1ER OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN CATHOLIC BISHOP’S CONFERENCE
THE YEAR OF CONSECRATED LIFE
30 November 2014 – 02 February 2016
I thank you Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your generous will. (Matt 11:25)
Brothers and Sisters in the Consecrated Life, Priests and the People of God,
Speaking these words aloud, Jesus rejoiced immensely in the activity and wisdom of the Holy Spirit as he thanked and praised his Father whose mission he himself had come to accomplish.
We rejoice in a similar way in the lives lived and the wonderful activity and service carried out by so many consecrated men and women in our country and in our world. We welcome the invitation of Pope Francis to make this a year of thanksgiving and of deeper reflection on the calling of the consecrated men and women among us.
We think of all the consecrated men and women who have laboured in our countries, from Bishop Griffith, the first Vicar Apostolic of the Cape and Fr. George Corcoran, both Dominicans; the Missionary Sisters of the Assumption and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, to mention a few of the first ones, up to the most recently consecrated persons from within our countries and those who have come among us from elsewhere. Consecrated men and women established the local church in our dioceses and most of our parishes, schools and hospitals, and still today they minister in the local church and outlying communities, serving people of every background in countless ways. We pay tribute to all deceased Religious who have served in our countries and are buried in our soil, sometimes in obscure or forgotten graves. We appreciate all those Religious who have grown old among us, who have given courageous witness and led exemplary lives.
We ask that in our dioceses and parishes we celebrate the precious gift of consecrated life together with the contemplative and active Religious among us, also by visiting and supporting the sick and aged among them.

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