CATHOLIC NEWS BULLETIN ARCHDIOCESE OF DURBAN AUGUST 2018

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1 CATHOLIC NEWS BULLETIN ARCHDIOCESE OF DURBAN AUGUST 2018 CARDINAL S CORNER The August session of the Bishops Conference highlighted a number of important challenges facing the Church as it completes the formulation of its New Pastoral Plan as its response to the pressing issues in society today. Once again some concern what is happening outside the Church (ad extra) while others concern internal matters of the Church (ad intra). Ad Extra Challenges The Land Question This is a challenge not only because it has been made a hot potato with the call by the lunatic fringe for expropriation without compensation, but also because in the 25 years since apartheid the government has not done enough. If the truth be told, it has in fact done very little to right the wrongs of colonialism and apartheid. For many communities and families things have become even worse. For example the landless poor are almost daily seeing resources meant for their upliftment being diverted elsewhere. The Bishops statement from the Plenary Session will throw further light on this question. The first day of the Plenary Session was a study day dedicated to examining and evaluating the overall economic state of our country and region. One shocking fact is that South Africa has the widest gap in the world between the rich and the poor. This is truly shocking because the country has so rich and so many resources, that if properly and justly distributed there should be no poor people among us! So far the signs of a potentially explosive situation are being disguised (a) by the continued existence of strong family structures especially in rural areas; (b) by a social grant system which is still holding absolute poverty off from the door of many poor families. Unfortunately both the family structure and the grant system are under extreme pressure. Hence the real fear that sooner rather than later things will begin to unravel. This is why we as Church must keep ourselves well informed and up to date with what needs to be done, but especially what we can do in our little way! Ad Intra Challenges When I began this reflection on the Ad Intra challenges it was the New Pastoral Plan and what it was offering us in terms of a new vision and a new mission that held centre stage. Then came the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report on sexual abuse committed by Church Leaders - Bishops and Priests! This shameful behaviour by priests and bishops, some of whom later 53

2 became Cardinals and thus members of the inner circle of advisors to the Pope, the successor of Peter and Vicar of Christ, has brought the sexual abuse crisis to a new level. Everyone is asking: What can we do? What should we do? Given the deep-seated nature of the evil that has been perpetrated, there seems to be only one thing to do. After apologising profusely to the victim/survivors, to their family and communities, we have to apply the remedy which Jesus himself applied to his Disciples when they were at a loss as to how to caste out a particularly stubborn demon. Our demon seems to be just as stubborn and just as difficult to caste out. This kind can be caste out only by prayer and fasting! I do not see much merit in telling others, especially Pope Francis, what to do! So I call on all who care for their Church to follow the advice of Jesus fast and pray! That s the recipe for making a new start. Pray and Fast Now is the time to take the words of Jesus first sermon to heart and start living them in earnest: Repent and believe the Gospel, because the Kingdom of God is near! Our effort is going to be via our New Pastoral Plan, which asks us to become an Evangelising Community serving God, Humanity and All Creation. An Evangelising Community We must strive to be a community whose first reason for existing is to know and love and live the Gospel taught by Jesus Christ, beginning with his baptism of repentance, through his life of service, to his death on the Cross and his glorious resurrection. Living the Gospel with the aim of making disciples of all nations is the way we develop our service to God the Father. It is also the way we express our service to our fellowmen, as well as our care for creation! ALPHA and Divine Renovation It is with the above in mind that we welcome the ALPHA programme and its follow up Divine Renovation. It is our hope and prayer that ALPHA and Divine Renovation will play the same crucial role in renewing our Archdiocese going into the future as was achieved by Renew and its Faith Sharing Groups or Small Christian Communities. Other challenges are expressed and defined by the workshops and programmes that different departments of the Bishops Conference will be putting on: a) Consultation on Culture and Inter-culturality; b) End violence in Catholic Families; c) Meeting of Bishops with Superiors of Diocesan rite Religious Congregations; d) Celebration of Golden Jubilee of SECAM (Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar); e) Study of possibility of South Africa hosting the World Youth Day 54

3 A last word on the Crisis Even as we consider how best to respond to the Crisis the story of the Prodigal Son comes to mind for two good reasons. The story would not have had a good ending but for two things: (a) The Father s heart which was not only open to forgiving his delinquent son, but was constantly looking out for any sign of repentance; (b) the son s response to his dire situation by turning both his mind and his heart back to his Father. This he expressed by his repeatedly rehearsed confession: I will go back to my Father and I will say: Father I have sinned against heaven and against you! I am no longer worthy to be your son. Treat me as one of your servants! + Wilfrid Cardinal Napier OFM Archbishop of Durban Reflection by Fr. Sylvester David OMI: THE CHURCH The Church, that glorious inheritance purchased by Christ the Saviour at the cost of his own blood, has in our days been cruelly ravaged. The beloved spouse of God s only begotten Son is torn with anguish as she mourns the shameful defection of the children she herself bore. Christians, but apostates, and utterly mindless of God s blessings, they provoke divine justice by their crimes. This is what St Eugene de Mazenod the Father of the Oblates wrote in From recent revelations in the USA and other places e.g. the full page article in the Mercury of 23 rd August and the Holy Father s letter to all the faithful on 20 th August, it seems like nothing has changed since St Eugene s urgent plea to the Church of his time. What do we do? How do we cope with this situation which causes people to leave the Church and gives anti-catholics ammunition against us? Recently a sporting coach in a school admitted to 144 cases of abuse of boys aged The details are too horrible to mention. Many other religious groups are faced with this issue. The fact that this sickness affects all levels of society does not make it the norm. It is sinful and we need to recognise this. The correct faith response is given in the second book of Chronicles (7: 14) where we are called to humble ourselves and pray so that healing can come. This is precisely the call of the Holy Father at this time. This calls to mind the time when Jesus cleansed the Temple. We need to cleanse our own Temple. In all this we must not lose faith. We must not allow ourselves to forget that in the original group of Twelve Apostles there was not only Judas the betrayer, but also Peter and ten others. The promise of the Lord when he gave the keys to Peter, that not even the gates of hell will prevail against his Church, must be firmly rooted in our minds. Does not our present situation resemble the time when the physical body of Jesus was torn and bleeding on the cross? He was so disfigured that he was hardly recognizable as human but Scripture tells us that not one of his bones was broken so too with the mystical body of Christ, the Church. Right now it is disfigured and scarred and hardly recognizable as the Body of Christ but not one of his bones will be broken. The Church cannot fail because Christ promised to be with her until the end of time. 55

4 Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis to the People of God If one member suffers, all suffer together with it (1 Cor. 12:26) These words of Saint Paul forcefully echo in my heart as I acknowledge once more the suffering endured by many minors due to sexual abuse, the abuse of power and the abuse of conscience perpetrated by a significant number of clerics and consecrated persons. Crimes that inflict deep wounds of pain and powerlessness, primarily among the victims, but also in their family members and in the larger community of believers and non-believers alike. Looking back to the past, no effort to beg pardon and to seek to repair the harm done will ever be sufficient. Looking ahead to the future, no effort must be spared to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening, but also to prevent the possibility of their being covered up and perpetuated. The pain of the victims and their families is also our pain, and so it is urgent that we once more reaffirm our commitment to ensure the protection of minors and of vulnerable adults. 1. If one member suffers In recent days, a report was made public which detailed the experiences of at least a thousand survivors, victims of sexual abuse, the abuse of power and of conscience at the hands of priests over a period of approximately seventy years. Even though it can be said that most of these cases belong to the past, nonetheless as time goes on we have come to know the pain of many of the victims. We have realized that these wounds never disappear and that they require us forcefully to condemn these atrocities and join forces in uprooting this culture of death; these wounds never go away. The heart-wrenching pain of these victims, which cries out to heaven, was long ignored, kept quiet or silenced. But their outcry was more powerful than all the measures meant to silence it, or sought even to resolve it by decisions that increased its gravity by falling into complicity. The Lord heard that cry and once again showed us on which side he stands. Mary s song is not mistaken and continues quietly to echo throughout history. For the Lord remembers the promise he made to our fathers: he has scattered the proud in their conceit; he has cast down the mighty from their thrones and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty (Lk 1:51-53). We feel shame when we realize that our style of life has denied, and continues to deny, the words we recite. With shame and repentance, we acknowledge as an ecclesial community that we were not where we should have been, that we did not act in a timely manner, realizing the magnitude and the gravity of the damage done to so many lives. We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them. I make my own the words of the then Cardinal Ratzinger when, during the Way of the Cross composed for Good Friday 2005, he identified with the cry of pain of so many victims and exclaimed: How much filth there is in the Church, and even among those who, in the priesthood, ought to belong entirely to [Christ]! How much pride, how much selfcomplacency! Christ s betrayal by his disciples, their unworthy reception of his body and blood, is certainly the greatest suffering endured by the Redeemer; it pierces his heart. We can only call to him from the depths of our hearts: Kyrie eleison Lord, save us! (cf. Mt 8:25) (Ninth Station). 2. all suffer together with it The extent and the gravity of all that has happened requires coming to grips with this reality in a comprehensive and communal way. While it is important and necessary on every journey of conversion to acknowledge the truth of what has happened, in itself this is not enough. Today we are challenged as the People of God to take on the pain of our brothers and sisters wounded in 56

5 their flesh and in their spirit. If, in the past, the response was one of omission, today we want solidarity, in the deepest and most challenging sense, to become our way of forging present and future history. And this in an environment where conflicts, tensions and above all the victims of every type of abuse can encounter an outstretched hand to protect them and rescue them from their pain (cf. Evangelii Gaudium, 228). Such solidarity demands that we in turn condemn whatever endangers the integrity of any person. A solidarity that summons us to fight all forms of corruption, especially spiritual corruption. The latter is a comfortable and self-satisfied form of blindness. Everything then appears acceptable: deception, slander, egotism and other subtle forms of self-centeredness, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light (2 Cor 11:14) (Gaudete et Exsultate, 165). Saint Paul s exhortation to suffer with those who suffer is the best antidote against all our attempts to repeat the words of Cain: Am I my brother s keeper? (Gen 4:9). I am conscious of the effort and work being carried out in various parts of the world to come up with the necessary means to ensure the safety and protection of the integrity of children and of vulnerable adults, as well as implementing zero tolerance and ways of making all those who perpetrate or cover up these crimes accountable. We have delayed in applying these actions and sanctions that are so necessary, yet I am confident that they will help to guarantee a greater culture of care in the present and the future. Together with those efforts, every one of the baptized should feel involved in the ecclesial and social change that we so greatly need. This change calls for a personal and communal conversion that makes us see things as the Lord does. For as Saint John Paul II liked to say: If we have truly started out anew from the contemplation of Christ, we must learn to see him especially in the faces of those with whom he wished to be identified (Novo Millennio Ineunte, 49). To see things as the Lord does, to be where the Lord wants us to be, to experience a conversion of heart in his presence. To do so, prayer and penance will help. I invite the entire holy faithful People of God to a penitential exercise of prayer and fasting, following the Lord s command.1 This can awaken our conscience and arouse our solidarity and commitment to a culture of care that says never again to every form of abuse. It is impossible to think of a conversion of our activity as a Church that does not include the active participation of all the members of God s People. Indeed, whenever we have tried to replace, or silence, or ignore, or reduce the People of God to small elites, we end up creating communities, projects, theological approaches, spiritualities and structures without roots, without memory, without faces, without bodies and ultimately, without lives. 2 This is clearly seen in a peculiar way of understanding the Church s authority, one common in many communities where sexual abuse and the abuse of power and conscience have occurred. Such is the case with clericalism, an approach that not only nullifies the character of Christians, but also tends to diminish and undervalue the baptismal grace that the Holy Spirit has placed in the heart of our people.3 Clericalism, whether fostered by priests themselves or by lay persons, leads to an excision in the ecclesial body that supports and helps to perpetuate many of the evils that we are condemning today. To say no to abuse is to say an emphatic no to all forms of clericalism. It is always helpful to remember that in salvation history, the Lord saved one people. We are never completely ourselves unless we belong to a people. That is why no one is saved alone, as an isolated individual. Rather, God draws us to himself, taking into account the complex fabric of interpersonal relationships present in the human community. God wanted to enter into the life and history of a people (Gaudete et Exsultate, 6). Consequently, the only way that we have to respond to this evil that has darkened so many lives is to experience it as a task regarding all of us 57

6 as the People of God. This awareness of being part of a people and a shared history will enable us to acknowledge our past sins and mistakes with a penitential openness that can allow us to be renewed from within. Without the active participation of all the Church s members, everything being done to uproot the culture of abuse in our communities will not be successful in generating the necessary dynamics for sound and realistic change. The penitential dimension of fasting and prayer will help us as God s People to come before the Lord and our wounded brothers and sisters as sinners imploring forgiveness and the grace of shame and conversion. In this way, we will come up with actions that can generate resources attuned to the Gospel. For whenever we make the effort to return to the source and to recover the original freshness of the Gospel, new avenues arise, new paths of creativity open up, with different forms of expression, more eloquent signs and words with new meaning for today s world (Evangelii Gaudium, 11). It is essential that we, as a Church, be able to acknowledge and condemn, with sorrow and shame, the atrocities perpetrated by consecrated persons, clerics, and all those entrusted with the mission of watching over and caring for those most vulnerable. Let us beg forgiveness for our own sins and the sins of others. An awareness of sin helps us to acknowledge the errors, the crimes and the wounds caused in the past and allows us, in the present, to be more open and committed along a journey of renewed conversion. Likewise, penance and prayer will help us to open our eyes and our hearts to other people s sufferings and to overcome the thirst for power and possessions that are so often the root of those evils. May fasting and prayer open our ears to the hushed pain felt by children, young people and the disabled. A fasting that can make us hunger and thirst for justice and impel us to walk in the truth, supporting all the judicial measures that may be necessary. A fasting that shakes us up and leads us to be committed in truth and charity with all men and women of good will, and with society in general, to combatting all forms of the abuse of power, sexual abuse and the abuse of conscience. In this way, we can show clearly our calling to be a sign and instrument of communion with God and of the unity of the entire human race (Lumen Gentium, 1). If one member suffers, all suffer together with it, said Saint Paul. By an attitude of prayer and penance, we will become attuned as individuals and as a community to this exhortation, so that we may grow in the gift of compassion, in justice, prevention and reparation. Mary chose to stand at the foot of her Son s cross. She did so unhesitatingly, standing firmly by Jesus side. In this way, she reveals the way she lived her entire life. When we experience the desolation caused by these ecclesial wounds, we will do well, with Mary, to insist more upon prayer, seeking to grow all the more in love and fidelity to the Church (SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, Spiritual Exercises, 319). She, the first of the disciples, teaches all of us as disciples how we are to halt before the sufferings of the innocent, without excuses or cowardice. To look to Mary is to discover the model of a true follower of Christ. May the Holy Spirit grant us the grace of conversion and the interior anointing needed to express before these crimes of abuse our compunction and our resolve courageously to combat them. Vatican City, 20 August 2018 FRANCIS 58

7 R.I.P. FATHER EMANUEL DE PASSOS I first met Manny, as he was affectionately known, when the de Passos family lived in Moore Road (now Ché Guevara) and the Nadal family lived in nearby Cato Road in the late 1940s. At that stage I only knew Manny and his younger brother Ferny at a distance. Later Manny was an altar server at my ordination in the Emmanuel Cathedral on 8 th December The next I heard of him was that he had gone to St. John Vianney Seminary in Pretoria to study for the priesthood. It was only after his ordination to the priesthood on the 3 rd December 1967 that I really got to know Father Emanuel de Passos. We became close priestly friends over the next fifty years working in the Archdiocese of Durban. His first appointment was to St. Joseph s (now San José) in Stamfordhill Road. I was in residence in the presbytery while I was pastor in the adjacent parish of St. Paul s, the only isizulu language parish in Durban and now long since demolished. It was there that I learned that in Manny s case his physical appearance was completely deceptive. In spite of his small stature there was in this newly ordained priest a mind and will of his own. Many years later he told me that Stephen Whyte OFM, our spiritual director in our Seminary days, had once said to him Do not let anyone walk over you or push you around because of your size. Manny took that advice very seriously. In the 52 years that he was a priest he served in many parishes in the Archdiocese, namely St Joseph s Greyville; Inchanga/Camperdown; Queensburgh with a four year teaching stint at Convent High School; Holy Cross Isipingo; St Anthony s and San José in Durban. His longest and most loved posting was at St John s and Our Lady of Vailankanni Chatsworth from 1993 to In 2015 he retired from active ministry and helped with the celebration of Masses in his beloved Chatsworth. It was there that he was loved and appreciated for his dedicated priestly service. It was also there that he died on 28 th July 2018 with a sudden and fatal heart attack. The Archdiocese of Durban has lost one of its most faithful priests and I personally have lost one of my best priest friends. Monsignor Paul Nadal ORDINATIONS TO THE PERMANENT DIACONATE On Saturday 6 October 2018 at 10h00 in St. Michael s Parish (37 Blackburn Road, Red Hill) Cardinal Wilfrid Napier will ordain Meshack Kali, Theobald King and Neelan Reddy to the Permanent Diaconate. This will be followed by a reception in St Joseph s Parish Hall (212 Florida Road, Morningside) at 12h30. All Clergy, Religious and Laity are invited to this joyous celebration. We offer our heartfelt congratulations to Meshack, Theo, Neelan and their families with a fervent prayer that they may have a blessed and fruitful ministry serving the people of God in this special ministry. 59

8 CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to Fr Pieter van Heewijk who celebrates his 90 th birthday on 1 st September. May the good Lord continue to bless him. CONDOLENCES Our deepest sympathy to Deacon Noel Pistorius and his wife Maureen at the death of their grandson, 23 year old Shaun Pistorius in Germany. Please remember Deacon Noel and his family in your prayers. SPIRITUAL DIRECTION At a meeting of the Diaconate Board on 20 August 2018 it became apparent that a list of Spiritual Directors needs to be drawn up so that Deacons and Aspirants could make arrangements to engage in Spiritual Direction. As a result it was decided to: 1. Ask all those who can offer Spiritual Direction to send their names and contact details to the Vicar General s secretary; and 2. To request those who are interested in the ministry of Spiritual Direction in other words those who want to be trained so as to assist in this valuable ministry to also submit their names so that a training course or workshop can be arranged. In this regard we appeal to Priests, Deacons and Consecrated Religious to come forward so as to build capacity in this regard. In the past training was given to lay persons and this proved to be most successful with respect to marital issues, grief counselling, etc. We ask Parish Priests to recommend suitable persons for training as the same course could be of benefit to a variety of needs. A. General Tasks THE DEACON SERVES AT MASS When he is assigned to exercise his ministry during the celebration of the Eucharist, wearing the prescribed sacred vestments (alb, stole & dalmatic), the deacon shall: a. Assist with the Missal, by first making sure the text of the Mass to be celebrated is properly marked, then by turning the pages as needed. b. Proclaim the Gospel, and when assigned to do so, deliver the homily; c. Guide the faithful by giving appropriate introductions, explanations and instructions; d. Make sure the text for the Prayers of the Faithful or General Intercessions is in place; e. Check that the paten, ciboria and chalices to be used are in order; f. Present the paten, then the chalice to the celebrant for the offering of the gifts; 60

9 g. Assist with the distribution of Holy Communion, especially the Precious Blood; h. Purify the sacred vessels after Communion or oversee their purification by the extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion; i. Invite the congregation to prepare themselves for the blessing; j. Dismiss the Assembly. B. Specific Tasks 1. Entrance Procession: Position in procession a) When the Book of the Gospels is carried in procession, the Deacon carries it slightly raised so that it can be seen, and walks in front of the concelebrants or the celebrant; b) If the Book of the Gospels is not carried, the deacon walks to the right of the celebrant, one pace behind him; c) When he arrives in the sanctuary, he goes straight to the altar, and without any gesture lays the Book of the Gospels down flat on the altar; d) He joins the celebrant in genuflecting or bowing in front of the altar, before ascending to reverence the altar with a kiss. 2. Incensation of Altar and Crucifix When incense is used, the deacon: i) takes the thurible from the thurifer, opens it for the celebrant to place incense on the charcoal, ii) accompanies the celebrant as he walks around the altar, assisting him by holding the chasuble clear of the thurible. iii) When the incensation is done, he takes the thurible from the celebrant and hands it back to the thurifer. 3. Introductory Rites: Standing at the celebrant s right, the deacon assists with the Missal, turning the pages if necessary during the Greeting, Penitential Rite, Kyrie Eleison, Gloria and Collect or Opening Prayer. 4. Liturgy of the Word During the Liturgy of the Word, the deacon sits on the celebrant s right until the Gospel Acclamation, when he rises to assist with the thurible as above. Then bowing profoundly (not kneeling) he requests a blessing from the celebrant; takes the Book of the Gospels from the Altar; bows to the altar, and preceded by the thurifer, goes to the Ambo, carrying the book slightly raised as during the entrance rite. 61

10 4.1. Reading of the Gospel a) With hands joined he greets the assembly saying The Lord be with you ; b) He incenses the Book as follows: one ductus (upward lift) and 2 ictuses (forward swings) to the centre; one ductus and 2 ictuses to the left, then one ductus and 2 ictuses to the right of the Book of the Gospels. c) He proclaims the Gospel, concluding with the words: "The Gospel of the Lord". d) He does this without any further gesture N.B. i) When the celebrant is a Bishop, the deacon does not kiss the Book; ii) Instead he presents the open Book of the Gospels to the Bishop for him to kiss it, before blessing the congregation with the closed Book. iii) If the celebrant is not a bishop, the deacon kisses the Book and puts it aside in a dignified place. 5. General Intercessions Before assisting the celebrant with the introduction to the General intercessions the deacon must ensure that those assigned to proclaim the intentions are ready and in place. 6. Liturgy of the Eucharist 6.1. Preparation of Altar, Reception and Preparation for Gifts After preparing the Altar with the altar servers, the deacon assists the celebrant as he receives the gifts from the Faithful. Thereafter he prepares the paten and chalices, pouring wine into the chalices adding a little water to the main chalice only, while saying the prescribed prayer. He hands the paten with the main host to the celebrant. (N.B. He does NOT place the paten on the corporal, but offers it to the celebrant) Incensation After the offering of the gifts, the Deacon receives the thurible and holds it for the celebrant to put incense on the charcoal. During the incensation he accompanies the celebrant as at the beginning of the Mass, holding the chasuble clear of the thurible. Then, he receives the thurible from the celebrant; bows before and after incensing first the celebrant, then the concelebrants and finally the congregation. Each incensation consists of 1 ductus (upward lift) and 2 ictuses (forward swing) to the centre, then to the left and finally to the right. N.B. As the "Servant of the Assembly", the deacon himself is not incensed! 6.3. Eucharistic Prayer At the beginning of the Eucharistic Prayer, the deacon ensures that the Missal is set for the Prayer over the Gifts, the Preface and the selected Eucharistic Prayer. 62

11 From the Epiclesis (i.e. when the celebrant extends his hands over the gifts) to the end of the Elevation of the Chalice, the deacon kneels. (This is the only time that the deacon kneels during an ordinary Mass). For the Doxology the deacon receives the chalice from the celebrant and raises it while the celebrant elevates the paten and host Communion If need be, during the Rite of Fraction (i.e. while the Agnus Dei is being recited or sung) the deacon may be called to assist the celebrant to break the hosts for distribution to the concelebrants. After the celebrant and the concelebrants have received Communion, the deacon receives Communion under both kinds from the celebrant or a concelebrant, before distributing Communion as assigned. After Communion the deacon purifies the sacred vessels at the side of the altar, or else he oversees the purification by the extraordinary ministers of Communion at the credence table. 7. Prayer after Communion and Solemn Blessing The deacon assists the celebrant with the Prayer after Communion and the Solemn Blessing, which he introduces by inviting the congregation to Bow down for the Blessing Dismissal and Recession After the Blessing he dismisses the assembly using the prescribed words: "Go!..." Finally, together with the celebrant, the deacon venerates the Altar with a kiss, genuflects to the Blessed Sacrament or makes a profound bow to the Crucifix and the Altar and leaves walking on the celebrant's right, with hands joined, i.e. carrying nothing. + Wilfrid Cardinal Napier OFM Archbishop of Durban 15 th August 2018 DIOCESAN DIARY September Catechetical Synod Cardinal 1-12 Annual Leave Vicar General 2 Confirmation: Westville Cardinal 3 Chancery Meeting 4 Diakonia Council Meeting Cardinal 63

12 6 Napier Centre 4 Healing Cardinal 7 Building Committee Cardinal Novena Chatsworth Cardinal 8 75 th Anniversary - St. Joseph s Scholasticate Cardinal 9 Confirmation: Greytown Cardinal Confirmation: Kwa Mashu (OLL) Fr. E. Zondi 10 Workshop on Social Cohesion Cardinal 11 Metropolitan Bishops 12 Bishops and Religious Superiors 13 DMI Review Novena - Sacred Heart Parish, Woodlands Cardinal 14 Council of Priests 15 Mpumalanga: Opening and Blessing of Admin Block Cardinal Confirmation: Holy Trinity Berea Cardinal 16 Consecration of Star of the Sea Parish, Umhlanga Cardinal Confirmation: Mpumalanga Fr. A. Moss OMI Rome Cardinal th Anniversary Albini Girls High School, Ntshongweni Cardinal Confirmation: Kwa Mpumuza Fr. E. Zondi 23 Confirmation: Lamontville Cardinal Confirmation: Woodlands, Durban Vicar General 25 KZN Inter-religious Council Executive Cardinal 27 Catholic School Board Meeting Cardinal 29 Ordination Pallottine Community Cardinal World Youth Day Meeting Cardinal Sacred Heart Sodality Convention Mass, Newlands West Cardinal 30 Confirmation: Emmanuel Cathedral Cardinal Confirmation: Newlands East Vicar General 64