Parish Notices for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
The Pope’s Prayer Intention for January:
We pray with Pope Francis that the Spirit helps us recognise the gift of different charisms within the Christian community, and to discover the riches of different ritual traditions in the heart of the Catholic Church.
2024 Catechism Registration
The 2024 Catechism Registration will open on Sunday 21st of January 2024. Announcements on how and where will be made closer to the time.
Morning Prayer
Morning Prayer will resume on Sunday 14th of January at 09h00.
Stewardship & Database Registration
Parishioners are invited to rededicate themselves to the parish by filling in the stewardship renewal and database registration form, copies are available at the back of the church or click on this link to add your details and recommit https://forms.gle/TnUcatzo1dz4ez9J6
16h00 Mass
The 4pm mass will resume on the 28th of January 2024
Music for Violin and Organ – Sunday 21st January – 09h30
If you missed the programme of music for Violin and Organ last November, you have an opportunity to hear it during the 09h30 Mass on Sunday 21st January. Zanta Hofmeyr (violin) and Cameron Upchurch (organ) will be teaming up again to repeat their programme, which includes Albinoni’s Adagio, Gounod’s Ave Maria, Morricone’s Gabriel’s Oboe and the slow movement of Alessandro Marcello’s exquisite Oboe concerto in D minor. Morning Prayer will also be sung as usual before Mass, at 09h00.
The Jubilee Year 2025
Following the extraordinary 2015 Holy Year of Mercy instigated by Pope Francis, the forthcoming Jubilee will take place in line with the norm of leaving a 25-year gap between each one. The most recent ordinary jubilee took place in the year 2000, as the world and the Catholic Church prepared to enter the new millennium. The Jubilee Year is a special year of grace, in which the Church offers the faithful the possibility of obtaining a plenary indulgence. Traditionally, it begins just before Christmas and ends on the Epiphany of the following year. The Pope inaugurates the Holy Year with the rite of the opening of the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica. After that, the Holy Doors of the other papal basilicas – St John Lateran, St Paul Outside the Walls, and St Mary Major – are opened and remain so until the end of the Jubilee Year. In preparation for the 2025 Jubilee Year ‘Pilgrims of Hope’, 2024 has been designated a Year of Prayer by Pope Francis. It starts this Advent. There is a particular focus on the Our Father, and this presents us with a great opportunity to go back to the basics of prayer. .