August 2022

21 August How does heaven celebrate feast days? Happy feast day; every loves a feast. And in celebrating the Assumption, we also celebrate our national feast. (Mary Assumed into Heaven is the patroness of South Africa.) We can pack away the green vestments for a moment, forget about the humdrum of our day and lean […]

Sometimes when one sits at the airport waiting for a plane one begins to notice what is happening around. We become aware of so many people of different nationalities passing by. Their features, the colour of their skin, their national or traditional attire that almost tells us or gives us a clue to their country

What does it mean to be faithful? What is the difference between this and professing the faith? And what is faith anyway? These are among the many questions that emerge from the readings this weekend, all of which refer to elements of faith. “Faith”, says the author to the Hebrews in our second reading, “is

This weekend’s readings certainly invite us to reflect on our relationship with earthly things such as money, possession, and superficial or temporal goods. The first reading from Ecclesiastes has the famous refrain “Vanity of vanities! All is vanity” that St Philip Neri and his disciples used to sing in the streets of Rome. It reminds