Prayers for Southern Africa

PRAYER CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA (AFRIKAANS)
PRAYER CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA (ISISWATI)
PRAYER CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA (ISIZULU)
PRAYER CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA (SESOTHO)
PRAYER CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA (ISIXHOSA)
PRAYER CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA (ENGLISH)

Retreats

Holy Cross Retreat House 

Upcoming retreats; July - December 2023

St Lucia Retreat Centre

2023 - 2024 Retreats 4 (17h) - 6 August (14h) 2023 2-day Preached Retreat: “Contemplating Creation- An ecological understanding of Genesis Ch. 1” Rev Peter  Habberton    R 1900  6 (17h) – 15 (9h) October 2023 8-day Preached Retreat Practicing...

St. Lucia Retreat and Training Center

21 (18h) - 24 May (9h) 2021  2-day Retreat: “Prayer of heart and body”  A weekend away in a quiet space to experience yoga as a preparation for prayer and meditation. There will be 2 yoga practice sessions daily to balance the active and contemplative...

Reflections

2024 Lenten Reflections – Xhosa

Ixesha leNzila lisinika ithuba lokuthandaza nokuguquka. Ikwalithuba lokuzilungiselela ngokwasemoyeni ngelixesha lonyulo. Amaqela ezoPolitiko kunye nabantu jikelele anendlela eyodwa yokulungiselela unyulo. Nathi njengamakholwa ngokwethu kufanele sizilungiselele...

2024 Lenten Reflections – Afrikaans

Ons land is nou besig om gereed te maak vir die 2024 nasionale en provinsiale verkiesings. Ons het goeie rede om dankbaar te wees dat ons nog oor ons demokratiese reg beskik om na die stembus te gaan en vrylik ons leiers te kies. Ons gee erkenning aan die uitstekende...

2024 Lenten Reflections – English

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

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2023 Lenten Reflections – Zulu

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2023 Lenten Reflections – Afrikaans

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Repentance from our old ways

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

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...

Human life is a mixture of joy and sorrow

O Lord, you have been our refuge, from generation to generation; from age to age, you are. Cf. Ps 89.1-2 Most of human life is a mixture of joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure. Even the worry and sorrow brought on by serious illness in a family member is often balanced...

Turn our eyes to the least of our brothers

Like the eyes of slaves on the hand of their lords, so our eyes are on the Lord our God, till he show us his mercy. Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy. Cf. Ps 122.2-3 Our Lord thinks of us as children and not as servants. As much as our eyes are on the Lord, maybe we...

Shrines

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Shrines

Our Mother of Mercy Shrine – Archdiocese of Johannebsurg