“holy doors” in this “jubilee of...
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July 2016 Issue 31
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ANNIVERSARY OFORDINATION
July02.07.2011: Fr Anthony Ikeji
07.07.2007: Fr Robert Sinama
07.07.2012: Fr Ikemerika Azubuike
12.07.1969: Fr Gerald Gostling
16.07.1972: Fr Peter Cullen
17.07.2004: Fr Pious Ncube
18.07.2009: Fr Marcel Kazadi
19.07.2014: Fr Mark Jande
21.07.2013: Fr Charles Wangoie
23.07.2012: Fr Mthetho Ndlovu
August30.08.2008: Bishop Graham Rose
BIRTHDAYS
July14.07.1949: Fr Tom Tshabalala
16.07.1987: Fr Mark Jande
21.07.1957: Fr Solly Mokoena
24.07.1958: Fr Billy Croucher
August12.08.1977: Fr Pious Ncube
29.08.1939: Fr Gerry Oreilly
“HOLY DOORS” in this “JUBILEE of MERCY”Have you been through a Holy Door
this year?
The Holy Door is an essential part of
the Jubilee of Mercy Holy Year.
United with the whole community of
the Church throughout the world
every Diocese has several Holy
Doors through which everyone in
every parish is encouraged to go. To
quote the Holy Father, Pope Francis:
“…the Holy Door will become a Door
of Mercy through which anyone who
enters will experience the love of God
who consoles, pardons, and instills
hope”. Each Deanery in our Diocese
has a church designated by the
Bishop to have a Holy Door. Make
arrangements with the priest in that
parish so that you may visit as an
individual, or with your family, or as a
Sodality, or go as a group of friends,
or arrange a parish pilgrimage. It
does not matter how you arrange the
group you go with, as long as you get
to a Holy Door. There should be
advice from your parish about the
prayers you can say, and about the
beautiful and powerful symbolism of
making a pilgrimage of Mercy.
Praying for yourself that you will be
truly a person of truth and justice but
with love, with forgiveness, and with
mercy, and then reaching out step by
step in prayer for the whole world.
Praying for the conversion of those
who are responsible for so much hurt
and evil in the world. Praying for
reconciliation and peace, and leaving
“judgment” in the hands of God.
Many families have blessed the door
of their own home, and prisoners the
door of their cell, and then the door of
the hospital, the door of the home for
the aged, or the hospice, or your
office, or study room. Learners can
make themselves conscious that
when they go through the door of the
school or college they must be
witnesses of the reality of God, and
his mercy and love…so that the grace
of this Year of Mercy may not be
missed by anyone and may be lived
out and experienced every day in
every situation.
This Holy Year of Mercy should help
mould all of us even more, and the
Church as a whole, into people of
God’s Love and Mercy, so that it is
our way of life every day. We do ask
God’s mercy on the world, but we
ourselves have to be people of His
mercy. As the Holy Father Pope
Francis says in the document
promulgating the Holy Year: “Mercy is
the very foundation of the Church’s
life. All of her pastoral activity should
be caught up in the tenderness she
makes present to believers; nothing in
her preaching and in her witness to
the world can be lacking in mercy.
The Church’s very credibility is seen
in how she shows merciful and
compassionate love”.
Go through the Holy Door in your
deanery, and make every door in your
life “Holy”.
Fr Gerald Gostling
Ngabe usuke wadlula eMnyango
oNgcwele kulonyaka?
UMnyango oNgcwele uyingxenye
abalulekile yeJubhili yoNyaka
wesiHawu. Sihlangene nomphakathi
wonke weBandla emhlabeni wonke
izifundaBhishobhi zineMinyango
eNgcwele lapho kukhuthazwa ukuba
wonke aye kuleminyango. Uma
ngingacaphuma uBaba oCwebileyo,
uPhapha uFrancis: “...uMnyango
oNgcwele uzoba wuMnyango
wesiHawu lapho wonke umuntu
ongena khona ezothola uthando
lukaNkulunkulu olududuzayo,
oluxolelayo futhi olunika ithemba”.
Idinari nedinari kulesifundaBhishobhi
sethu inawo umnyango omuswa
nguMhlekazi njengoMnyango
oNgcwele. Niyamenywa ukuba nenze
izinhlelo nomPriste wasePerishini
enoMnyango oNgcwele ukuze
nikwazi ukuvakasha ningumndeni,
niwuMhlangano, noma nje niyiqembu
labangani, noma nihlele uhambo
niyipherishi. Akunandaba ukuthi
nihlela kanjani okubalulekile nje
ukuthi niye kuleminyango. Kungaba
neziluleko eperishini ezingaqondana
nokuthi nizosho yiphi imikhuleko,
nokuthi nizosebenzisa ziphi izimpawu
uma senithatha loluhambo.
Nizikhulekele ukuba nibe ngabantu
beqiniso, nobulungiswa, uthando,
ukuxolela kanye nesihawu emva
kwalokho bese umhlaba wonke. p.2
“IMINYANGO ENCGWELE” kulonyaka “weJUBHILI YESIHAWU”
Photos of the doors:
Holy Rosary Cathedral, Ermelo and below: St Peter and Paul.
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from page 1... Nikhulekele ukuba kuguquke labo abenza ubuhlungu nobubi
emhlabeni. Nikhulekele ukubuyisana, uxolo kanye nokuthi sifunde ukuba
“ukuhlulela” sikuyeke ezandleni zikaNkulnkulu.
Imindeni eminingi ibusise iminyango yayo emakhaya, iziboshwa iminyango
lapho iboshwe khona, kanye neminyango yasezibhedlela, umnyango
waseKhaya labadala, noma lapho kuhlala khona abagulayo, noma ioffisi, noma
indlu yokufundela. Abafundi bangazenza ukuthi bakhumbule njalo lapho
bengena emnyango wesikol noma ecollage kumele babe ngofakazi beqiniso
likaNkulunkulu, isihawu kanye nothando ...ukuze kube wukuthi igrasiya
laloNyaka wesiHawu lingaphuthelwa muntu, litholwe futhi liphilwe kuzo zonke
izimo.
LoNyaka oNgcwele wesiHawu kumele usisize usakhe sonke, kanye neBandla
lonke, usenze sibe ngabantu bothando kanye nesiHawu sikaNkulunkulu, ukuze
lokhu kube yimpilo yethu yansuku zonke. Siyaye sicele isihawu sikaNkulunkulu
emhlabeni, kodwa thina uqobo lwethu kumele sibe ngabantu besihawu saKhe.
Njengoba uBaba oCwebileyo uPhapha uFrancis esho embhalweni lapho
ayemisa khona uNyaka wesiHawu: “IsiHawu siyisizinda sempilo yeBandla. p.2
Konke okokwalusa kumele kukhombise ukulunga okukhonjiswa isihawu
kwabakholwayo; akukho ekushumayeleni kanye nasebufakazini emhlabeni
lapho kungekho isihawu. Isithunzi seBandla sibonakala ngesihawu kanye
nothando olunozwelo”.
Hambani niye eMinyangweni eNgcwele kumadinari enu, bese nenza yonke
iminyango ezimpilweni zenu “ibe Ngcwele”.
Konke okokwalusa kumele kukhombise ukulunga okukhonjiswa isihawu
kwabakholwayo; akukho ekushumayeleni kanye nasebufakazini
emhlabeni lapho kungekho isihawu. Isithunzi seBandla sibonakala
ngesihawu kanye nothando olunozwelo”.
Hambani niye eMinyangweni eNgcwele kumadinari enu, bese nenza
yonke iminyango ezimpilweni zenu “ibe Ngcwele”.
Pope Francis has announced a major
overhaul in the Church’s system for
granting annulments. This move is
considered to be the latest in Francis’
reforms in which he seeks to make
the Church more responsive to the
needs of Catholics around the world.
Without an annulment Catholics who
remarry are excluded from the
reception of Communion. This is, for
many, a painful exclusion from one of
the Church’s most important
sacraments. Fr. James Martin, SJ,
described the announcement minutes
after it was made as “an act of mercy
from a pastoral Pope who listens
carefully to the concerns of the
people.” An annulment is a finding by
a Church court that a union between
a man and woman, even if ratified by
a Church wedding, was lacking
because it did not meet one of the
traditional tests for validity – for
example informed consent. The Pope
said that he was streamlining the
process out of concern for “the
salvation of souls” but still maintained
the Church’s traditional ban on
divorce. Under the rules, Catholics
whose relationships break down and
who want to marry someone else in
the Church first need to obtain an
annulment. Many people have
experienced the process as lengthy,
invasive, complicated and, in many
places, too expensive. Pope Francis
says that a great number of synod
fathers (who met in October 2014 in
preparation for the Synod on the
Family in October 2015) emphasised
the need to make the annulment
process more accessible and less
time consuming. In two legal
documents, called Motu Proprio,
Francis has overhauled the process
in order to speed it up. In the past, for
example, annulments had to go
through two courts. One issued it and
another had to confirm it. Francis has
ruled that only one court is necessary
unless there is an appeal. Appeals
can now also be handled by the
nearest Archdiocese and do not have
to be sent to Rome. The changes
took effect on 8 December 2015, the
first day of the “Year of Mercy” Other
changes that the Pope has decreed
are the following: Only one judge is
needed to oversee the process;
under some circumstances the
bishop himself can serve as the
judge; if the annulment is “evident”
the process will be even shorter; the
process must be free of charge and
that a second appeal can be made to
the Vatican if necessary. In the past
the first appeal would have to go to
Rome – the first appeal can now be
made to the nearest Archdiocese. It’s
important to note that the grounds for
granting annulments have not
changed it is the process the Pope
is overhauling. Pope Francis has,
again, reminded us that mercy and
forgiveness are key aspects of
Christian life. It’s a massive challenge
to us all.
Fr Russell Pollitt, S.J,
The Jesuit Institute.
Annulment Process A dramatic change
The harvest is rich but the labourers are few
so ask the Lord of the harvest
to send labourers to his harvest(Mt. 9 : 37)
Have you thought of becoming a priest?
Our diocese needs you
Talk to your parish priestor talk with me.Fr Mthokozisi KhanyileVocations Directorcell: 073 2080462office: 034 3126591email: [email protected]
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IDeanary yase Mnambithi ibe
nendumezulu yeVuselelo eqale mhla
zingu 1719 kuNhlangulani (June )
2016 eZakheni kwaNina woMsindisi.
Ibiholwa ngezintshumayelo
nezinkulumo nguSr. Dominic Shezi
OP beno Fr. Angelicus Mchunu TOR
njengabaluleki bezokomoya kwi
Deanary. NoFr. UMbingo
njengomeluleki kwi Diocese yonke
uFikile wenza iMisa eliyiNgcwele
waqhelisa amalunga aseno 25
weminyaka.
Isiqubulo semvuselelo esoze siphele
ngeMvuselelo elandelayo ngoJune
2017 sithi BABUSISIWE
ABANESIHAWU NGOBA
BAYOKUHAWUKELWA (Mt 5: 7).
Sibonga uMrs. Ngwenya onguDean,
isekela lakhe uMiz Mabuza nesigungu
sonke seDeanary nabaphathi
bemihlangano emaParishini
nasemagatsheni impela kubonakele
ukuthi abantu bangena entweni
ababizelwa kuyo neculo likufakazele
lapho bekhisazela okwezikhukukazi
namaqhude bethi:
NGIYAYITHAND'INTOYAMI
ENGAZIKHETHELA YONA. THUTHA
LAPHO WAKHE KHONA. Sibonga
uFr. Lukas Bambezela OFM oyiqhude
lendawo Parish Priest owayekhona
elungisa ebona ukuthi konke
kuyathola kala kuhamba kahle futhi.
Baba siyabonga umee njala.
Nezikhonzi neParish Council.sibonga
no Miss Bongi Cebekhulu ongu Dean
woMhlangano kaMaria kwiLady Smith
Deanary nomhla ngano ukubakhona
kwabo kulemvuselelo ebisezingeni
eliphezulu. Inkulumo kaSr. Dominic
Ukuhleleka nokuzihlela kwelunga
loMhlangano weNhliziyo. Siyabonga
weSr. Dom ndodakazi kaMaZimu
eMphithi! Kodwa usungoka Kristo
Dominic esigodlweni eMontobelo.
Nezindela oSr. Joseph, Gloria bathi
ngeke sisale nathi sisauozibonela
eZakheni. Fr. Mchunu TOR IsiHawu
noMkhuleko. Abantu mabazi ukuthi
singobani. Abantu bathi ungubani?
Wena uthi ungubani? UKristo uthi
ungubani kuwena empilweni yakho?
UFr. Mchunu TOR, Fr. Bambezela
OFM noSr Shezi babe sebewuthuma
uMhlangano ukuba uyobonisa
eMindeni, eBandleni naseMphakathini
ukuthi ungoBani njengamalunga
eNhliziyo kaJesu ngokuphila isihawu.
Fr. Angelicus Mchunu TOR.
From May 28, 2016 to June 5, 2016,
we were privileged to participate on a
pilgrimage of priests to Rome, in
order to celebrate the Jubilee year of
Mercy. A pilgrimage is a journey of
faith, in which we walk closer with
God in order to discover moments of
grace and spiritual renewal. This
pilgrimage was organised by the
Southern African Bishops
Conference. Our group consisted of
Bishop D. Mpako, Queen’s Town
diocese, two deacons and 26 priests.
The purpose of this pilgrimage was to
seek to drawer closer to God during
this year of mercy in order for him to
teach us and show us how to live the
loving mercy that God has for us all
and for his ministers, how to be true
and authentic ambassadors of his
mercy. The highlights of our
pilgrimage were 1) entering through
the Holy Doors, 2) visitations to St
Giovanni Rotondo and Assisi, and
finally 3) concelebrating the Jubilee
mass with Pope Francis.
The Holy Doors
One of the central components of the
Jubilee year of Mercy was the
opening of the Holy doors of mercy in
Rome and the local churches. These
doors symbolise the open side of
Christ on the cross, leading to God’s
merciful heart. The open doors of
mercy also demonstrate that God is
open to welcome everyone into his
loving compassion proclaimed by
Christ. Pope Francis has called on all
Christians to make a pilgrimage to
access these doors of mercy. In our
pilgrimage we visited and entered
through the Holy Doors of mercy at
the basilicas of St. Peter, the
Lateran,St Paul outside the walls and
Mary Major.
Visitation to Assisi and
Giovanni Rotondo.
In the Jubilee Year of Mercy, the
church invites us to look to the saints
and how they embraced and lived the
mercy of God. Our pilgrimage, took
us to Assisi the place of St Francis
and St Giovanni Rotondo where
Padre Pio lived. St Francis in his life
lived a life of abject poverty and
reached out to the poor and
marginalised. On the grounds of
Assisi is a capsized immigrant boat,
to remind all the pilgrims of the plight
of thousands of migrants who die at
sea trying to reach Europe in search
of a better life. Assisi reminds us to
practise the spiritual and corporal
works of mercy.
In Giovanni Rotondo, Padre Pio’s life
is an outstanding ambassador of
mercy. Padre Pio spent 17 hours
every day in the confessional listening
to confessions. This is a great
challenge for us priests to make
ourselves available to the faithful for
the sacrament of reconciliation during
this year of Mercy.
Jubilee mass with Pope
Francis
The climax of our pilgrimage was
concelebrating the Jubilee mass with
Pope Francis on the 3rd of June, on
the feast of the Sacred Heart. The
morning was wet and we all got
soaked as we lined up to get into the
Vatican. Our spirits were not
dampened, we gladly welcomed the
showers as the work of the God of
mercy, cleansing us to worthily
celebrate the Jubilee mass. In his
homily the Holy Father considered the
heart of the good shepherd and the
heart of the priest.
The heart of the good shepherd is
mercy itself full of love. Our ministry
is full of projects, plans and activities.
Amidst these we need to ask
ourselves the poignant question,
“Where is my heart directed to, what
is it set on, what treasure does it
seek?”. The question that each of us
needs to ask ourselves is, where is
my heart directed to? The challenge
is to model our hearts on the heart of
the good shepherd.
We would like to thank Bishop Rose
for his support and according us the
opportunity to visit Rome and take
part in the celebrations of the Year of
Mercy. The pilgrimage was spiritually
enriching. We give thanks to God, for
his mercy will endure forever.Fr Mthokozisi Khanyile standing in St Peter's Square
Fr Andrew Moyo with some of the priests who attended the pilgrimage in Rome
Celebrating the Year of Mercy with Pope Francis
UPhapha uFrancis usememzele
izinguquko ezinkulu zemigomo
yokumisa imishado ingabi khona
semthethweni. Lona kubonakala
kungumyakazo wamanje
uPhapha uFrancis awenzayo
ukulethat izinguquko ukuze
ibandla likwazi ukuletha
izimpendulo kubantu emhlabeni
wonkje. Ngaphandle
kwalomgomo wokuthi umshado
umiswe njengongekho
emthethweni amaKhatholika
ashada okwesibili ayanqatshelwa
ukuba amukele iKhomumiyoni.
Lokhu kuzwakala kubabandlulula
esaskramenteni elibalulekile
kakhulu. uFr James Martin, SJ,
uchaze lokhukumenyezelwa
“njengokukhombisa isihawu
sikaPhapha owalusa kahle futhi
olalela lokhu okukhathaza
abantu.” Umgomo wokwenza
umshado ungabi semthethweni
ngokwenkantolo yeBandla ukuthi
ukuhlanganiswa kowesilisa
nowesimame, noma ngabe
kushadelwe eSontweni,
awuphelele ngoba
ungahlangabezananga nokunye
kungamasiko ebandla, for
example kungavunyelwananga.
uPhapha uthi wenza lesinqumo
ukuze “kusindiswe imiphefumulo”
kodwa ukwenza nje lokhu usafisa
ukuba kugcinwe imigomo
yebandla emayelana
nokuhlukanisa. Ngaphansi
kwemithetho, amaKhatholika
uma ngabe ubudlelwane babo
sebuphela, bebe besafuna
ukushada nomunye eBandleni
kumele bathole incwadi eshoyo
ukuthi umshado wangaleso
sikhathi usuthathwa
njengongekho emthethweni.
Abantu abaningi bayibone
lenqumo njengethatha isikhathi
eside futhi enemidanti eminingi,
futhi edinga imali eningi. page 4
Indlela okumiswa ngayo imishado njengaleyo engekho emthethweni Kunoshintsho olukhulu
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operating successfully for over five years with requests even from overseas. Jimmy Mutevera is thecoordinator, and Fr. Gerald Gostling is the Chaplain, and offers Mass for all the intentions. We can cope with
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Bishop's Calender
July02 Pomeroy uMusa woMsinga
16 Wakkerstroom Wedding
1826 Pmbg Durban on Holiday
26 Johannesburg St Augustine's
Board Mtg
30 Boksburg Newcastle OP's
celebration
August01 Newcastle
03 Newcastle Elections
0506 Maria Ratschitz Caritas KZNMtg
0916 Botswana _ SACBC Plenary
1718 Johannesburg CUC (Church
Unity Commission)
21 Dannhauser Confirmations
23 Pretoria Ecumenism
24 Ladysmith Mtg with Anglicans
25 Pmbg KZN Council of Churches
30 Durban Caritas KZN
31 Durban Durban Metropolitan
....Isuka ekhasini lesine
UPhapha uFrancis uthi oBaba
abaningi ababehlangene naye
ngoOctober ka 2014 belungiselela
iSinodi yoMndeni yango 2015
bagcizelela ukuba lenqumo yenziwe
lula ukuze isize abantu abaningi futhi
ingathathi isikhathi eside.
Emibhalweni emibili yomthetho,
ebizwa ngokuthi, Motu Proprio,
uFrancis uyishintshe kakhulu
lenqubo ukuze ayisheshise. Kudala,
lezinqubo kwakumele ziqale
ezinkantolo ezimbili. Eyodwa
yayiyikhipha bese kuthi enye
iyiqinisekise. UFrancis uthike ilungile
inkantolo eyodwa ngaphandle uma
ngabe kufakwa esinye isicelo
ngaphezulu. Izicelo sezingabanjwa
isifundaBhishobhi esiseduze futhi
akusamele zidluliselwe eRome. Lezi
zinguquko ziqale ngomhlaka 8
December 2015, ngosuku lokuqala
“loNyaka wesiHawu” Ezinye
izinguquko uPhapha azimise zaba
semthethweni yilezi: Kudingeka ijaji
elilodwa ukubhekana nalenqubo;
ngaphansi kwezimo lapho
umBhishobhi engaba yijaji, lenqubo
ingathatha isikhathi esincane
kakhulu; lenqumo kumele ingabizi
mali, uma kufakwa isicelo sesibili
kuzomele siyiswe kwiVatican.
Kudala isicelo sokuqala kwakumele
sibhekiswe eRome – manje
sesingayiswa kusifundaBhishobhi.
Kubalulekile ukwazi ukuthi
imibandela yokunika lenqubo
iyakashintshi – uPhapha
uyasikhumbuza futhi ukuthi isihawu
kanye nokuxolela yizinto
ezibalulekile kakhu empilweni
yobuKristo. Lena yinselela enkulu
kithi sonke.
Fr Russell Pollitt, S.J, The Jesuit