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2024 Lenten Reflections – English

by Sheila Pires | Feb 8, 2024 | Lenten Reflections, Reflection

The Lenten Season offers us an opportunity for prayer and repentance, what others call spiritual preparation for the elections.   Political parties and secular people have their way of preparing for elections.  As believers, what we have is spiritual...

2023 Lenten Reflections – English

by Phuti Makgabo | Mar 4, 2023 | Lenten Reflections 2023, Reflection

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2023 Lenten Reflections – Zulu

by Phuti Makgabo | Mar 4, 2023 | Lenten Reflections 2023, Reflection

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2023 Lenten Reflections – Afrikaans

by Phuti Makgabo | Mar 4, 2023 | Lenten Reflections 2023, Reflection

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Repentance from our old ways

by Phuti Makgabo | Mar 10, 2022 | Lenten Appeal, Lenten Reflections, Reflection, Uncategorized

To my words give ear, O Lord, give heed to my sighs. Attend to the sound of my cry, my King and my God. Cf. Ps 5.2-3 Lent is time for repentance from our old ways. Lent invites us through prayer, fasting and almsgiving to renew our faith in God and in his Church....

Our phones can be like a ship to Jonah

by Phuti Makgabo | Mar 9, 2022 | Lenten Appeal, Lenten Reflections, Reflection, Uncategorized

Remember your compassion, O Lord, and your merciful love, for they are from of old. Let not our enemies exult over us. Redeem us, O God of Israel, from all our distress. Cf. Ps 24:6,2,22 Do we get time to be curious about Jesus and his message of love and mercy? Jonah...
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