Month: December 2025
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Parish News – 20/21 December 2025 – Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year A)
Read More: Parish News – 20/21 December 2025 – Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year A)✨ …as ADVENT continues The fourth candle of Advent represents Love — the ultimate love of God in sending His only Son for us. Known as the Angel’s Candle, the fourth Advent candle is lit on the Sunday before Christmas. Its purple colour leads us to eagerly await the coming of the new Kingdom of…
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Parish News – 13/14 December 2025 – Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday – Year A)
Read More: Parish News – 13/14 December 2025 – Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday – Year A)🌸 …as ADVENT continues (Gaudete Sunday) One of the candles surrounding the Christ Candle in the Advent wreath is rose-coloured for Gaudete Sunday, the beginning of the third week of Advent. The day takes its name from the Latin word Gaudete (“Rejoice”), the first word of the Introit of today’s Mass: “Gaudete in Domino semper:…
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Parish News – 6/7 December 2025 – FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Read More: Parish News – 6/7 December 2025 – FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION✨ …as ADVENT continues This week we light Bethlehem’s Candle, the Candle of Faith.Micah foretold that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, so this candle focuses our attention on the journey of Mary and Joseph as they travelled in faith toward the birth of Christ. Many people today live as if “this is all…
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Parish News for 12 / 13 September 2026 – 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
📢 Parish Notices 🌱 Care of Creation The prophetic call to “beat swords into plowshares” (Is 2:4) is therefore not only a vision for nations, but a call to each person. It invites us to transform harm into life. Yet this transformation cannot be achieved through external change alone. It requires, through cooperating with God’s…
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Parish News for 29 / 30 August 2026
PARISH NOTICES CATECHISM CLOSING DATES FOR TERM 3 Faith Levels 5, 6, 7 & Bridge ….. Wednesday 2nd September. Good Shepherd, Faith Levels 1, 2, 3 & 4 ….. Friday 4th September We resume on Wednesday 7th & Friday 9th October respectively. World Day of Prayer for Creation 6th September 2026 Bring an outdoor plant…
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Parish News for 22 / 23 August 2026 – 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
📢 Parish Notices 🌱 World Day of Prayer for Creation 6th September 2026 Bring an outdoor plant to church day “Wherever the river flows, every living creature will live”Ezekiel 47:9 St Francis, pray for us All Parishes in the Archdiocese of Cape Town are encouraged to celebrate the Care of Creation Mass on the World…