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In the first Bishops Foundation Newsletter for the month of August, the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) Secretary General Fr Hugh O'Connor highlights the National Women’s Day, the Solemnity of the Assumption, the SACBC August Plenary at...

This year World Youth Day will be taking place in Lisbon, Portugal from the 1st to the 6th of August.Several pilgrim groups have gone from South Africa. The trip to world youth day, for thosefortunate to go, offers a wonderful opportunity to be a part of the universal...

"On Sunday the 23rd of July we celebrate the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. This dayserves as a reminder of the valuable wisdom, experience, and love that older generations offer tosociety and the Church. This day we are offered the opportunity once again...

"The ad limina visit of the Bishops’ Conference has come and gone. The week in Rome just flew by with each day holding its own surprises and challenges," SACBC Secretary General Fr Hugh O'Connor June-2023-2Download

"The title ad limina is from the Latin ad limina apostolorum (“to the threshold of the apostles”). Every 5 years each Bishops’ Conference around the world is expected to make a trip to Rome to meet with the various departments and offices at the Vatican and then also...

"In the Christian tradition, Pentecost is the celebration, 50 days after the resurrection, of the person of the Holy Spirit coming upon the Apostles, Mary, and the first followers of Jesus, who were gathered in the Upper Room. It commemorates the sealing of the New...

"The Month of May has come upon us. This month is dedicated to Mary. As Catholics, we all have a devotion to Mary under one or other of her many titles. In this month the Church celebrates Mary three times in a special way on specific days." SACBC Secretary General Fr...

“Mother, formed from the depths beneath your heart, You know us from the inside out. No deeds or seas or others, could ever erase that.”  - John O’Donohue April 2023 (2) Easter Greetings to all the Foundation Friends and Benefactors I have been inspired by the three...

May 13, as I write this newsletter is the official Feast day of the Ascension. However here in South Africa we will celebrate the Ascension on Sunday. That leaves us free to celebrate as best we can the other feast day which is so important for this day, that of Our...

Greetings every one. Lent has come and gone and so has Easter. I trust everyone survived the different stages of lockdown, the long weekend and managed to meet with family and friends and perhaps managed to get to some of the Easter ceremonies. But now it is all...