St Patrick's Catholic Church

Catholic Youth SA: St Patricks Grahamstown

33rd Sunday Year B - 18 November 2012
This is from the final student Mass for the 2012 academic year at Rhodes University. We also said farewell to Fr Vumile, the chaplain, as he heads off to Pretoria.

2009 OLP Thanksgiving

2009 Thanksgiving Mass at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, North Hills, California

Catholic Church,woodmead, south africa

Benedict Daswa: South Africa's first Catholic Martyr

South Africa's Catholic bishops will invite Pope Francis to visit the
country later this year to beatify Limpopo school teacher Benedict
Daswa as South Africa's first martyr.

Pope Francis issued a decree earlier on January 23, approving Daswa's beatification.

Bishop William Slattery, speaking on behalf of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference, confirmed that Cardinal Wilfred Napier will personally invite the pontiff to South Africa when they meet next week.

Daswa, who will now be referred to as Blessed, was murdered by a mob on the evening of 2 February 1990 after he spoke out against a witch hunt.

He was born on June 16, 1946, in the village of Mbahé outside of
Thohoyandou in Limpopo.

A presentation by a congress of cardinals and bishops who examined the cause to beatify Daswa said the matter is of capital importance because of its “great relevance” as witchcraft is a problem found throughout Africa

“This phenomenon which causes fear and resignation everywhere does not even spare the Church in this part of the African continent.

By his courage and his fidelity to the Catholic faith, the Servant of
God Tshimangadzo Samuel Benedict Daswa is a model for all the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa”.

Daswa received his diploma as a primary school teacher and began teaching in the grade school at Ha-Dumasi in 1973.

Daswa's death came after a powerful thunderstorm on 25 January 1990 when lightning caused a number of houses in his village to be
destroyed by fire.

Village elders blamed a witch. The decision was taken to consult a
sorcerer from a nearby village to find out more about the cause.

Daswa told the others that thunder and lightning are natural phenomena, but his explanation was not accepted.

Daswa was beaten to death not far from his home.

Daswa's fame as a martyr soon spread throughout the region.

Each year, on the anniversary of his death, about 800 people make a pilgrimage to his tomb.

Hercules Catholic Church, Pretoria.

Gospel of Luke 24 : 13-35, Emmaus experience of the Disciples.
Gospel is Good News, but Jesus never said it was easy news.

Salem, Easstern Cape, SA

Site of an early Anglican church and battle between English and Xhosa. Disgrace by Coetzee is set here.

Catholic Youth SA: Ordination at Cathedral of Christ the King, Queenstown

Here, the Rev Deacon Tulani Gubula was ordained by his Lordship, Bishop Mpako, to be a priest of the Holy Roman Church. It was indeed a joyous celebration.

Please excuse the shakiness of the video. Also, for some weird reason, I covered the microphone during the Gloria. Apologies for that!

Catholic youth SA Underwood

Regina Mundi Church - Soweto, South Africa 1997

Regina Mundi Church in Soweto, South Africa 1997
Regina Mundi Youth Choir and the Philadelphia Boys Choir and Men's Chorale
Filmed by Craig Koppenhafer
Edited by Steve Koppenhafer

St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Hout Bay, South Africa

Choir performing wedding songs 1 and 2, Promise and You put on a Ring.

History - St. Johns Mthodist Church

Established in 1894, St. Johns Methodist Church is one of the oldest Church's in Port Elizabeth. We hear from Peter Flugal, the caretaker at the Church about the construction happening on the building as well as the his observations about the area over the years.

St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Hout Bay, South Africa

St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Hout Bay, South Africa, Choir

Sermon on accepting defeat graciously during Catholic service

(20 Jun 2010)
1. Wide exterior of Sacred Heart Cathedral
2. Wide interior of cathedral (UPSOUND) singing
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Father Victor Phalana, Sacred Heart Cathedral:
It is beautiful today that we are celebrating this Sunday in the atmosphere of the World Cup. And there is no doubt that when our countries started to lose one by one, oh, our hearts and our spirits really went down.
4. Choir (UPSOUND) singing
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Father Victor Phalana, Sacred Heart Cathedral:
It is the World Cup, that is how it is. Full of surprises, you know, exciting, but at the same time full of disappointments. And I think somehow the hype around Bafana Bafana (South Africa's nickname) did not prepare us for the disappointment that was lurking, that was waiting for us.
6. People singing in congregation (UPSOUND) singing
7. Woman dressed in South African flag and football jersey, crosses herself
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Father Victor Phalana, Sacred Heart Cathedral:
We have to admit we didn't qualify for the World Cup! (UPSOUND, laughter) We want to win the World Cup, but we never qualified even! We were knocked out very, very early in the World Cup, you remember that? We were knocked out, we never even qualified for the World Cup. But the mercy of God brought us into the World Cup. We must just enjoy it as long as it lasts. We must enjoy it and we must not put too much pressure on our boys, because we will give them nervous breakdown.
9. Woman praying, vuvuzelas in foreground
10. Close-up of woman praying
11. Low angle cutaway of vuvuzelas
12. People in congregation singing (UPSOUND) singing
13. Wide of people leaving cathedral
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Tumi Phongola, church-goer:
I'll be praying mainly for unity amongst the players, that the rest of the World Cup is as peaceful as it can be, as it started, until the end.
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Martha Mohale, church-goer:
Soccer is just fun. I mean, it's just a play it's a sport. I mean we shouldn't be angry, we shouldn't be emotional about it. And we know our team wasn't that strong after all, but it's our team after all and we have to support it.
16. Woman dancing on cathedral steps
17. Crucifix with South Africa flag in foreground
STORYLINE:
South Africa's Catholic faithful were encouraged not to despair for their national football team on Sunday as they prayed for a crucial victory in the 2010 World Cup.
At Pretoria's Cathedral of the Sacred Heart on Sunday morning, worshippers packed the pews to hear Father Victor Phalana's football sermon.
The lesson from Father Phalana's pulpit was how to lose graciously as he prepared his congregation for the possibility that Bafana Bafana, the South African team's nickname, might not progress beyond the group stage of the tournament.
It is the World Cup cautioned Father Phalana, full of surprises, you know, exciting, but at the same time full of disappointments
Father Phalana was setting his congregation up for the possibility that South Africa might not continue to the next stage of the tournament, after drawing one game and losing another.
I think somehow the hype around Bafana Bafana did not prepare us for the disappointment that was lurking, that was waiting for us.
If they do not proceed any further in the tournament, South Africa would be the first World Cup hosts to be knocked out at such an early stage.
Father Phalana reminded the congregation that South Africa's national side had not actually qualified for the World Cup, but were playing by virtue of being the hosts.
We never even qualified for the World Cup said the priest but the mercy of God brought us into the World Cup. We must just enjoy it as long as it lasts.
South Africa could then qualify on goal difference.


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Glory to God

Diocese of Highveld hymnal festival 2018

ACTS EC Provincial Mass 2013

Association of Catholic Tertiary Students - Eastern Cape Province

Khayelitsha Church on Good Friday 2012

Michel Hoff

Michel Hoff
Geboren: 31 december 1960
Gestorven: 25 mei 2011
Oftewel DNH

Aan God de hoogste eer

Homily 5 March 2019

Homily by Fr. Frederick Agalo IMC on 5 March 2019

18th Sunday in Ordinary Times- Hercules Catholic Church, pretoria.

Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Hercules, Pretoria......

411, Alter Street,
Pretoria Gardens Welcomes you.....

Renew Africa......
Renew Life.....
Refresh yourself.....
You give them something to eat Mathew 14 : 16.

Roman catholic church in Khayelitsha

On Sundays in Khayelitsha township (South Africa) Juraj and me we were attending the service of Roman Catholic Church, where they sing and dance a lot.