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God opens our eyes
Thought for the day
Published on 05 Dec 2020
When we pray, God opens our eyes, renews and changes our hearts, heals our wounds and grants us the grace we need
Pope Francis
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As the Church begins a new year, marked as usual with the period of Advent to prepare and wait for Christmas, Grant Tungay reflects on how to enter this time prayerfully, especially within the context of this past year, marked with the trauma of COVID-19 and the experience of lockdown.
As we enter this season of Advent, we are coming to the end of a difficult year. One of the obvious difficulties we have experienced is how deeply this COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted the normal functioning of our lives.
Continue reading Advent and the wait for COVID-19 to be over at spotlight.africa.
At noon today it was announced by the Holy See’s Press Office that the Holy Father Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Kevin Dowling, C.S.s.R. as Bishop of the Diocese of Rustenburg, and has appointed the Vicar-General of the Archdiocese of Pretoria, Fr. Robert Mogapi Mphiwe, to be the new Bishop of Rustenburg. At the same time, it was also announced that the current Bishop of Eshowe, Bishop Xolelo Thaddaeus Kumalo has been transferred to care for the Diocese of Witbank.
Continue reading Pope appoints new bishops for Rustenburg and Witbank dioceses at spotlight.africa.
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