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Discover God’s Plan for Salvation and Your Place Therein The Adam to Jesus Covenant Bible Study opens up Scripture to reveal the big picture of Salvation History. Beginning with Adam, we will explore the six covenants God makes with humanity—covenants that find their fulfilment in Jesus Christ. By reading Scripture through this lens, we begin to see the big […]

PALM SUNDAY Masses are at the usual times but note that the 8.30am Mass on Sunday morning starts in the hall and is followed by a procession to the church. Other Masses begin in the church with the Solemn Entrance and blessing of palms.   MAUNDY THURSDAY 18:00 – 19:00 Confession 19:00 Mass of the

We continue in Holy Week at the most solemn moment of our Christian year. To assist us to prepare for these most important days in the Church’s liturgy, we reproduce below excerpts from the document of the Holy See Paschalis Solemnitatis (1988) which explain the significance and core features of the liturgical celebrations from Holy

The annual Chrism Mass of the diocese of Port Elizabeth will be at the Church of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, Cambridge this Tuesday 31st March at 10am (Holy Tuesday). At this important annual Mass the priests of the diocese renew publicly their priestly promises; in this diocese deacons are also invited to make an

The Port Elizabeth Oratory Parish of St Bernadette presents MUSICAL ORATORY STATIONS OF THE CROSS A solemn musical journey Join us in St Bernadette’s parish church on Friday 27 March at 17:30 This annual service is a reflection on the Gospel accounts of the Passion and Death of Our Lord. Choral pieces from composers such

In the final part of our series on the traditional Lenten disciplines, we take a General Audience of Pope Francis from the Holy Year of 2016 on almsgiving. That year was the Jubilee of Mercy, and the Holy Father sets almsgiving in this context, inviting us to look beyond simply human or practical considerations to

This Wednesday’s feast day (25th March) celebrates the mystery of the Incarnation in which, at the visit of the Archangel Gabriel to the Holy Virgin, Mary gave her consent to receive into her womb the Saviour of the World. We recall this mystery each time we pray the Hail Mary, according to the announcement of

Thursday 19th March is the Solemnity of St Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin, and Patron of the Universal Church. The Entrance Antiphon for the Mass of the Solemnity, “Behold, a faithful and prudent steward, whom the Lord set over his household” (cf. Luke 12:42) speaks both of St Joseph’s vocation as head of the Holy

Continuing our series on recent teachings of the Popes on the three-fold Lenten discipline of prayer, fasting and almsgiving, this week we take up an audience of St John Paul II from 1979, in which the Pope provides a reflection on fasting, one that may be prophetic of contemporary concerns about dependence on online media

The Universal Prayer (Oratio Universalis) is an historic expression of Catholic piety that has remained popular for centuries. Attributed to Pope Clement XI (1700-1721) it is especially associated with use in thanksgiving after holy communion. Pope St John XXIII highlighted the special value of the prayer: he enriched it with an indulgence, and mentioned it