An Advent approach to Spiritual Security From 27 November, it’s 28 days to Christmas; I wonder if that terrifies you? What would be more terrifying, though, would be if Christmas became a moveable feast, the date changing each year. Could we consider a more terrifying thing? Imagine that, each year, we had no idea when […]
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Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit photos and share their memories of St Bernadette’s parish, some of which date back nearly all the way to the beginning, 75 years ago. Gallery 1 Gallery 2 Gallery 3 Moira Boshoff shared the following: “I have so many wonderful memories but one which
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See what’s been happening in and around our Diocese over the last three months. The Diocesan News is published quarterly by the Bishop’s Pastoral Development Office and is available this month as a 39-page digital download. Click here
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Our annual parish braai is back! Join us on Sunday 4 December in the Oratory Garden, as we kick back and enjoy a day of family fun and fellowship. We supply the tent, tables, wood, braai stands and a jumping castle + potato bake, coleslaw and pasta salad. You bring your meat and drinks and whatever side
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13 November 2022 Today’s first reading comes from the Book of the Prophet Malachi. Malachi prophesied shortly after the construction of the Second Temple in the 5th century BC. This was a time when the Jews, having been liberated from exile in Babylon and been able to return to the Promised Land and rebuild their
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From Friday 28 October until Sunday 30 October, our parish observed a Forty Hours Devotion, a beautiful and solemn time of prayer in which the Blessed Sacrament is continuously exposed on the alter. From the opening Mass on Friday evening, until the close at 17:30 on Sunday, parishioners were invited to attend either the scheduled
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Every year, you have generously helped us give toys and gifts to the needy. This year however, we feel compelled to prioritise the crippling food poverty of our Walmer Outreach families. Please help us to give them a little joy at Christmas by adding extra groceries and treats to the 100 food parcels we distribute in December.
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SATURDAY 24 DECEMBER 18:00 Vigil 22:30 Carols 23:00 Midnight Mass Confessions 17:00 – 18:00, 22:00 – 22:50 SUNDAY 25 DECEMBER 07:00 Dawn Mass 08:30 Mass of the Day 10:00 Mass of the Day (EF) No evening Mass Confessions 06:40, 08:10 and 09:40
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27 – 28 October 2022 Dear Friends, We continue this week to reflect on the virtue of humility which we started to look at last week. A brief recap: we saw last week, when reflecting on the parable of the pharisee and the tax collector, as a rule, pride corrupts virtue whereas humility raises up
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