ELEVENTH SUNDAY - YEAR C * 14 JUNE - PFC Meeting @ 18:00; Cathedral Clergy : * 18 JUNE - PPC General Meeting - 10:00 - 13:00
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PARISH NOTICES WEEKLY BULLETIN MEETINGS ELEVENTH SUNDAY - YEAR C * 14 JUNE - PFC Meeting @ 18:00; Cathedral Clergy : * 18 JUNE - PPC General meeting - 10:00 - 13:00. Fr Karabo Baloyi Tel: 012 326 3027 Cnr Skinner & Bosman Street Fax:012 326 1740 NOTICES P.O. Box 8778, Pretoria 0001 Email: [email protected] We welcome into our parish the Apostolic Nuncio to South Africa, his excellency PPC Chairperson: Mr. Douglas Ucakacon (072 711 5967) CATHEDRAL OF THE Archbishop Peter Wells. We wish him God’s blessings in his ministry to the church 12 June 2016 SACRED HEART in South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho and Namibia. “BE TRUE CARRIERS OF GOD'S in return. For Jesus says: “whatever you 1. MASS OFFERING / INTENTIONS: From June 2016 Mass stipend in Pretoria is now LOVE IN THE WORLD” do to the least of mine, you do it to Me.” R50.00. Jesus is hungry for our poor people. This is Discover God's Tender Love for You the hunger that you and I must find. It may 2. MARRIAGE PREPARATION: Those who wish to get married please arrange an www.cshpretoria.co.za Email:[email protected] appointment with Fr. Karabo for the wedding date arrangement. be in our own homes. 3. Pledge feedback available on request. Please send an email to Discover the riches of God's tender love for [email protected]. you. God has created us in His image and The Joy of Loving Jesus 4. JUNE 16 – ALL THE YOUTH OF THE ARCHDIOCESE ARE TO GATHER AT likeness – enabling us to know him, love MAMANENG (NORTH – EASTERN DEANERY) FOR THE CELEBRATION. MASS him and serve Him in this world, so as to be May you keep the joy of loving Jesus in BEGINS AT 09:00. For more information contact Faith Baloyi. happy with Him forever in the life to come. your hearts and share that joy with all you 6. Fourth Annual Chira Lubich Memorial lecture. Saturday 18 June 2016 at Loreto School. This is the true purpose of life. To live our come in contact with. That radiating joy is 16 Woodlands Drive Queenswood Pretoria. Lecture delivered by Archbishop William lives with this aim, our lives have to be something real, for you have no reason not Slaterry. Theme: Education for Mercy. woven with prayer. They have to be woven to be happy because you have Christ with 7. PPC would like to congratulate and thank our two comrades Likhabiso Kaibe and with Christ. you - Christ in your hearts, Christ in the Collins Mokgohlwa for completing the Comrades Marathon last Sunday 29 may. Please Eucharist, Christ in the poor you meet, continue supporting the purchase of tickets for fund-raising drive. God Thirsts for You to Thirst for Him Christ in the smile that you give and in the 8. Sacred Heart Sodality Retreat on 25 June from 09:30 to 15:00. smile that you receive. Yes, you must live 9. On 26 June we will Enroll full members of the Sacred Heart Sodality. Seek wholeheartedly to love God and long life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the 10. Congratulations to the Cathedral Youth who obtained position 2 for the year of Mercy to find Him. In this way, you satiate the thirst world that makes gods out of power, song. of God who thirsts for us to thirst for Him. riches, and pleasure male you forget that 11. Fr. Karabo would like to thank the 10 parishioners who sponsored him for the Junillee Jesus, God made man, has come to reveal you have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved. of priests’ pilgrimage in Rome. May God bless them abundantly with unending mercies. God to us. Listen prayerfully in deep faith to 12. Cathedral Golf Day Fund-raising: His teachings and strive to do what He says. Respond to Christ’s Call Course: Silver Lakes Golf Course For Jesus tells us: “If you love Me you will keep My commandments, and My father will Date: 12 August 2016 love you as We will come and dwell in you.” I entrust you all to Mary, the beautiful Virgin Format: Better Ball Stable Fort Mother of God, whom Jesus, as He was Cost: 2000 Jesus also told us: “Love one another as I hanging on the cross for love of us, gave RSVP: Before 01 July 2016 have loved you. As the Father has loved us to be our Mother also. May the Contact: Zelda Phalatsi @ 078 406 4583 / [email protected] / Me, I love you.” It hurts Jesus to love us; Immaculate Heart of Mary guide and... [email protected] yes, it hurts Him. lead each one of you to respond to Christ’s 13. Send all your notices and announcements to [email protected] by call with your youthful courage and thursday evening. Every notice received after thursday will be published the following Jesus the Bread of Life enthusiasm, that you may be true carriers week. Thanks of God’s love in the world. And to make sure we remember His great VOTIVE CANDLE - PLEASE DO NOT LIGHT CANDLES WITHOUT THE OFFERING love, He made Himself the bread of life to (From a 1992 message of Mother Teresa FOR THE CANDLE. THE CANDLE IS R1.00 PER CANDLE LIGHTED. satisfy our hunger for God - because we to young people in the USA) have been created for that love - and to give CATHEDRAL BANK DETAILS: us the strength to keep His Standard Bank Account Number: 01 160 552 9 commandments, Jesus also made Himself Branch: 01 00 45 the hungry one, the thirsty one, the naked Account Name Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart one, the lonely one to enable us to love Him Archbishop Peter Bryan Wells new COVERING A MULTITUDE OF SINS our favor, only God can save us. The choice to Nuncio to South Africa and Botswana He entered the diplomatic service of the be saved is not ours; it is never ours. Salvation FIRST Holy See on 1 July 1999, working in the READING: 2 Samuel 12:7-10, 13 is a gift from God. And a gift is not something The Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you you take, it can only be given. Peter Bryan Wells (born 12 May 1963) is apostolic nunciature in Nigeria and, since shall not die.” an American Catholic archbishop and 2002, at the Section for General Affairs of GOSPEL: LUKE 7:36 – 8:3 diplomat. He the Secretariat of State. He was He was a murderer and an adulterer, by God's “That is why her many sins are forgiven – served as the appointed to head the English desk in own accusation. Why, then does David get off because of her great love.” Assessor for 2006. Besides his native English, he the hook? Some folks in the Hebrew General Affairs of speaks Italian, French, German and scriptures get struck down their track for Jesus never doubts the rumor that the woman the Holy See's Spanish. touching a sacred object out of turn. Yet David who bathes his feet is a sinner. He says quite Secretariat of is spared for far more offenses. freely that she is forgiven her many sins, Statefrom 2009 to He was named assessor on 16 July 2009 thought he does not bother to list them. Simon, What saved David's life is his great honesty, however, was very attached to every one of her 2016,[1] after when Gabriele Giordano Caccia was coupled with his great love. David is the first to which he was sins, enjoying his moral superiority as a named Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon the admit his guilt, although he does not exactly Pharisee. appointed a titular same day. Speaking about his work as seek Nathan out to go to confession about it. archbishop and assessor of general affairs, He stated that Nathan has to trick him into implicating himself The story Jesus tells Simon reinforces this Apostolic Nuncio to the role of papal diplomacy was to allow by telling him the parable of the rich man who difference between the one who forgives and South Africa and Pope Francis and his representatives to steals the poor man's lamb (see verses 1-6). the one who delights in the sin of others. Two Botswana. "have the ability to act freely in the world" Once he is implicated, David hangs his head men owe a certain moneylender different and knows what he has done. He has caused Archbishop Peter Bryan Wells was born and not be "impeded in their ministry," sums. (Here, amazingly, Jesus identifies especially in reaching out to the most a great offense to the Lord who has given him himself as a moneylender.) Both debts are on 12 May 1963 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He everything man's heart could desire. marginalized. And he written off, as if the money-lender does not completed his studies in philosophy at repents it. differentiate the value. To the moneylender, St. Meinrad Seminary College in Indiana. these two debtors are the same: Neither one Pope Francis named him secretary of the He completed his studies in theology as The one who loves much is forgiven much, can pay. So they are treated the same, and a student at the Pontifical North five-member Pontifical Commission and David has been fervent in his love for God both sums are written off. American College in Rome. He was responsible for investigating the Institute till now. The lesson we might take to heart ordained a priest on 12 July 1991 for the for the Works of Religion in 2013.