AdventLent 2012 2012 Issue Issue 14 11 Let us pray for our priests as 24th November 2013. they celebrate their birthdays Funda ngakho konke ­ Umcabango The aim of the year will be for and anniversaries. ngenkathi yokulindela ukuza us to encounter the person of kweNkosi kanye noKhisimuzi Jesus more deeply. To help us profess our faith Ngesikhathi ngifunda Kepha uNkulunkulu uma ANNIVERSARY OF with conviction we are asked ngiphinda izindaba zabantu enza intando yakhe ORDINATION to learn the kanye nemindeni esuka kwi­ ukhombisa ukuvuna labo Creed by heart, to read a few Torah, izincwadi ezinhlanu abampofu: indodana encane, NOVEMBER paragraphs of the Catechism zebhayibheli, yilapho ngibona unkosikazi olahliwe, 26.11.2005: Fr Musa Mncwango every day and to ukuthi izimangaliso zempilo nowesifazane oyinyumba, study the documents of zigcwele lapho ukuze sifunde nendodana ehlukunyezwayo. DECEMBER Vatican II. To help us ngazo. Zonke izimo zempilo Ekugcineni uNkulunkulu 02.12.2006: Fr Zamva Mlangeni celebrate our faith it is zilapho kusukela othandweni uzokwenza intando yakhe 02.12.1995: Fr Alfred Ntuli suggested that we go to uqala ukubona, kuya ngokuthi athumele indodana Pope Benedict XVI has 07.12.2002: Fr Zakhele Ziqubu confession more frequently, ekubulaleni, abafo yakhe kulomhlaba ukuze proclaimed a Year of Faith, 07.12.2002: Fr Thokozani Kunene attend mass more abaxabanayo, ubaba izwakalise ubukhona calling us to discover 12.12.1980: Bishop Graham Rose regularly and spend time in obuthakathaka kanye bombuso kaNkulunkulu. anew the richness of our 16.12.2009: Fr Mthokozisi adoration of the blessed nomama onamandla kakhulu, Kulesikhathi sokulindela Catholic Faith, and to Khanyile sacrament. Finally we imindeni engabambisene, ukuza kweNkosi kanye recommit ourselves to 16.12.2002: Fr Dumisani Mhlongo are encouraged to witness to ubusela kanye nokukhonza nesikaKhisimuzi make Christ. This special year 11.12.2004: Fr Bongani Dladla our faith by talking to others izithixo, izigqila ekuganeni, sivumele izwi likaNkulunkulu, began on 11th October 2012 about our kanye nokusabisa neizndaba zaseBhayibhelini, – the 50th anniversary of the BIRTHDAYS faith, by inviting our friends to ngokubulala kanye ukuthi zisiduduze nokuthi opening of Vatican Council II attend mass with us, by namaphupho okuprofetha zisiphosele inselelo njengoba and also the 20th anniversary NOVEMBER praying for the kanye nezithembiso sibhekene nokuhlupheka of the publication of the 19.11.1967: Fr Muzi Mbingo new evangelisation and ezingcwele. Funda ngakho empilweni, ukubhujiswa Catechism of the Catholic asking God to help us konke lokhu encwadini komhlaba wethu. Make Church. The year will end on witness to our faith in our kaGenesis, impilo yonke sikhumbule amagama the feast of Christ the King, DECEMBER daily lives. igcwele lapho, ibekwe kahle okugcina eBhayibhelini 15.12.1977: Fr Tomasz Wargacki njengoba kubekwa i­novel “Woza, Nkosi Jesu” njengoba 16.12.1955: Fr Alfred Ntuli yanamhlanje.! silindele ukungena kukaJesu 23.12.1951: Bishop Graham Rose Abaningi babalingisi ezimpilweni futhi sibambisane babephila impilo yokuzinaka naye ukuze senze umbuso JANUARY bona, bengakwazi kaNKulunkulu uzwakale 09.01.1982: Fr Mthokozisi ukubekezelela uNkulunkulu ebuhlobeni bethu kanye Khanyile ukuthi enze intando yakhe. nabanye. 22.01.1972: Fr Vincent Moba Cssp 29.01.1945: Fr Gerald Gostling Read all about it ­ a thought for Advent & Christmas Would you like to advertize in Genesis, the whole of life is this newspaper? The more I read and reread Would you like to sponsor a the stories of the personalities there, as good as any modern page to support the Church? Would you like to submit an and families in the Torah, the day novel! Many of the article? first 5 books of the bible, the characters live self­interested Contact by the 15th January 2013, use more I realize that the lives, too impatient to wait for either ofthe following contact details: full drama of life is pictured God to act. But God will act Dumisani Mbokazi there for us to learn from. All showing a preferential option Dundee Diocesan Indaba for the poor: the younger son, PostNet Suite 95 the situations of life are there Private Bag X6603 from love at first sight, to the neglected wife, the barren NEWCASTLE 2940 woman, the exploited son­in­ Tel: 034 312 6591 murder, quarrelling brothers, Fax: 034 312 6592 a weak father and over law. Ultimately God will act in [email protected] powering mother, sending his son who makes dysfunctional families, theft present the reign of God. In The Editor Fr Peter Cullen and idolatry, slave these seasons of Advent and sufferings and injustices of expect Jesus to act in our Holy Rosary Parish Christmas let us allow the life, the devastation of our PO Box 83 concubines, death threats as lives to make the kingdom of Dundee well as prophetic dreams and word of God, the scripture planet. Let us recall the last God present in our 3000 stories, both console and words of the bible “Come, Tel: 034 212 2127 divine promises. Read all relationships with one Fax: 034 212 3950 about it in the book of challenge us as we face the Lord Jesus” as we await and another. [email protected] This page is proudly sponsored by Regina Coeli 1 Advent 2012 Dundee Diocesan Indaba Bishop of Dundee in 1983, around the Maria Ratschitz A man after the heart of God and he served us for 22 Mission. The rebuilding of the A tribute to Bishop Rowland by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi years. During that time, South Mission in 1996 expressed a How sad we are to be Africa underwent a deep triumph of the spirit. We gathered this morning to pay transformation, from political thank God that today it is our final respects to a servant and social oppression, into operating and serving the of God, a man whom we political freedom and the community, fully restored and loved. The Right Reverend beginning of social justice. It magnificent. We also thank Michael Paschal Rowland was a turbulent time to serve God that the hospice, which served his way into our in any capacity in our country, so tragically burned down in hearts. He uplifted us when for there was a great deal of 2007, continues to meet the we needed it most. He suffering and hardship, and needs of terminally ill supported us and encouraged many were wounded, patients. Friends, I was us. He gave of himself every physically, psychologically saddened to learn that day, in many ways, to many and spiritually. In the midst of Bishop Rowland himself had people, never counting the it all, Bishop Rowland become terminally ill. cost. He was truly a man after understood the mandate of Although we corresponded the heart of God. I have no Christ to meet His people at regularly, I did not know that doubt this morning that our their point of need. He did not he was ailing. His passing former Bishop was met in simply preach on a Sunday came as a shock to me. Yet Heaven with those wonderful and withdraw for the rest of immediately God’s comfort words, “well done, my good the week. Bishop Rowland rushed in and I was reminded and faithful servant.” There is involved himself in our lives of the words of that old hymn, no reason for us to mourn on and our hardship. He was “Blessed assurance, Jesus is his behalf. Our sorrow is for deeply involved in the Mine” – our own loss, our own grief, community in his Diocese and “Perfect submission, all is at for we miss the Right did not shy away from the rest;I in my saviouram happy Reverend tremendously. I confrontation when it was and blest, Watching and must thank the Bishop of necessary to protest and waiting, looking above, Filled Dundee, the Right Reverend assist his people. We recall with his goodness, lost in his Graham Rose, for allowing First Bishop of Dundee, Michael Paschal Rowland RIP how he stood up against love.” Michael Rowland and I me to pay tribute to my old forced removals during enjoyed a lasting friendship, friend. Unfortunately, this asked my office to move witnessed his enormous apartheid, keeping homes based on our shared faith morning there is a long mountains to get me here, for compassion, I was and families together. We and our shared work in the scheduled meeting of my the life’s work of Bishop determined to pay tribute as also recall how, more liberation of our people. Party that could not be Rowland must be honoured. we lay him to rest. The Right recently, he oversaw the Continues on page 4 postponed, and I shall need As his friend and one who Reverend Michael Rowland return of land to local people to leave to attend it. But I began serving as the first start of the year of Faith was processions. The parish web commitment to the renewal of Year of faith celebrations at Regina Pacis a full house with the site which is already well faith. Every month there will Catholic Church Braamhoek community established and used by be a different display in the Ladysmith joining the our own locals. many of the parishioners will foyer of the church Thursday, the 11th October laminated copy of the prayer The Regional meeting of the be publishing monthly articles representing a particular started with the Mass of for the start of this year. The St Vincent de Paul Society on the teachings contained in aspect of our faith journey. Blessed John XXIII, then local magazine, the Gazette will be taking place next the Creed. Along with the arm The current theme of Justice, followed Exposition of the sent a reporter to take Sunday commencing with bands available from the Peace and the integrity of Blessed Sacrament through photographs and interview Mass with the theme of the repository, medals with theme Creation (JPIC) will be the day.