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Family, friends and supporters of a young boy who suffered life-threatening injuries when he was hit by a train earlier this year have joined together to celebrate his miraculous recovery at an emotion-charged thanksgiving Mass.
Opinion
As we move through the month of November we are conscious that this year is coming to closure, and we are also in the process of looking ahead to plan and prepare for the coming year.
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In mid-January 2020 who would have thought that two years on we would still be encountering the unpredictability of the COVID pandemic? Who might have been bold enough to predict that fear and uncertainty would upstage certainty and hope as the default position of our lives? Not many, and yet for good or ill this is what surrounds us
The words ‘through Christ our Lord, Amen’ are familiar to us as the conclusion to many of the Church’s formal prayers.
He taught us how to pray while not knowing how to pray. That’s a comment sometimes made about Dutch theologian Henri Nouwen.
The Catholic Church in SA has welcomed the announcement by Premier Steven Marshall that churches may reopen for private prayer and that funeral numbers have been increased.
That you may tell your children and grandchildren (Ex 10:2) is the title of the World Communications Day message released by Pope Francis on the feast of St Francis de Sales (patron saint of journalists) on January 24.
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