Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Janusz Stanislaw Urbañczyk said he is coming to Zimbabwe with anopen mind to learn and to know about the country, the people, and the church.Speaking to Jesuit Communications upon his arrival at Robert Mugabe International Airport, theRepresentative of the Holy See said he has a great desire to be with the church in Zimbabwe andto present the ...
5th Sunday in Lent – Year B – Jn 12: 20-33 Two rather elderly Jesuits were recently having a conversation about dying. One of them asked the other “Are you afraid of dying?” Confident of being able to stare death in the face unflinchingly, his friend replied unhesitatingly “No not at all, I don’t mind death at all – let ...
‘Bad news is good news, good news is no news, and no news is bad news.’ I do not know who said this but it pops up on Google. I suppose it is a reflection on what ‘sells’ on the media. Bad news sells. Good news doesn’t. Maybe we can take a leaf from Google and apply it to Lent. The emphasis is on the ...
Second Sunday in Lent – Year B – Mk 9: 2-10 Richard Rohr, a Franciscan priest and widely acclaimed spiritual writer, brought out a book a few years ago, entitled “Falling Upwards.” His main thesis in this book is that life is divided into two halves. The first half of life is all about building one’s tower. As you might ...
Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference has emphasized the need to intensify spiritual practices, devoting more time to prayer, and helping people grow in their prayer life and, consequently, their relationship with God as a way of combating the deficit of hope. In a Lenten letter issued on the 12th of February, themed Combating the Deficit of Hope, the Bishops recommended a special kind ...
The first day, as Mark records it, of Jesus’ ministry ends in triumph. ‘The wholetown came crowding round the door.’ He was instantly famous and the disciplesknew it and bathed in his reflected glory. They wanted more. ‘Everyone islooking for you’, they said and they expected him to go on building up hisreputation.He could be ‘The Prophet of Capernaum’. He ...
What do you make of this? ‘Those with wives should live as though they hadnone.’ St Paul seems to be casting a shadow over married life (1 Cor 7: 29)! Yetthe context tells us something else. His theme is ‘our time is growing short.’ Wedo not have much time. He is talking of having the perspective of us living aprovisional ...
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