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  A Season of Our Youth – The Franciscan: June 2023

  Welcome to the Season of our Youth edition of The Franciscan In this edition: Rectors Reflections Pg.2 Reflection: Showing the way Pg 4 Bach Choir joins Sunday service Pg.5 My…

  8 October 2023

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  A Season of Creation – The Franciscan: October 2023

  Welcome to the Season of Creation edition of The Franciscan In this edition: Rectors Reflections: Taking a walk on the wild side Pg 3 Did St Francis think of himself…

  8 October 2023

• Church Inclusive: Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost, 15 October 2023

  Dearly beloved Franciscans With the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the forefront of many of our minds, I find myself deeply aware of how many of our human narratives and societal paradigms…

  6 October 2023

• Church Inclusive: Patronal Festival, 1 October 2023

  Dearly Beloved Franciscans About 8 years ago, I had the indescribable privilege of going on a Franciscan Pilgrimage, facilitated by a Franciscan brother, which included all of the towns associated…

  29 September 2023

• Church Inclusive: Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, 17 September 2023

  Dearly Beloved Franciscans It would seem that in this life, certainly in spiritual terms, we cannot ever say that we have arrived!  Sometimes we feel as if we are walking…

  15 September 2023

• Church Inclusive: Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost, 10 September 2023

  Dearly Beloved Franciscans How blessed are we to have National Parks and green belts in cities like Johannesburg. Not only are they part of the health of this planet, they…

  8 September 2023

• Church Inclusive: Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost, 3 September 2023

  Dearely Beloved Franciscans, what horror filled our hearts and minds at the deathtoll arising out of the burning of the condemmed building in central Jo’burg in the early hours of…

  25 August 2023

• Church Inclusive: Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost, 20 August 2023

  Dearly beloved Franciscans The violence in Haiti continues to escalate as do the kidnappings of women and children, the devastation of the fires in Hawaii: a country that depends a…

  18 August 2023

• Church Inclusive: Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost, 13 August 2023

  Dearly Beloved Franciscans Compassion always presupposes a level of kindness too.  And kindness in some way suspends self-absorption and extends to the other in a benevolent, relational, and attentive way.…

  11 August 2023

• Church Inclusive: Tenth Sunday After Pentecost, 6 August 2023

  Dearly Beloved Franciscans As we begin our sermon series this weekend on creating community, we’re also aware that 06 August is also the traditional date for the celebration of the…

  4 August 2023