Pope Leo XIV has urged Christians worldwide to embark on a transformative journey of self-improvement, emphasizing the importance of listening, fasting, and fostering community as away of making this Lenten journey a collective pursuit of finding God in our communities,our struggles, and our triumphs.In his 2026 Lenten message, titled “Listening and Fasting: Lent as a Time of Conversion,” heinvites believers ...
Pope Leo XIV has issued his first Apostolic Exhortation, “Dilexi Te” (I Have Loved You), emphasizing the Church’s preferential option for the poor and vulnerable, signed on October 4, 2025, and released on October 9, 2025, as a call to the global Church to renew its commitment to serving the marginalised and promoting justice and compassion. Drawing on the Spiritual ...
A young couple moved into a new neighborhood. The next morning while eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbor through the window hanging the washing outside. “That laundry is not clean,” she said. “She doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap”. Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time the neighbour would hang ...
Recently, a group of our employees in one of our Jesuit works came into the crosshairs of a very well-connected and prominent Zimbabwean businessman. The next thing we knew, the team of four employees had all been arrested and imprisoned pending trial on charges that literally defied logic. The whole team of our employees had never been in prison in ...
The Year of Jubilee, rooted in biblical tradition, symbolizes restoration, hope, and fresh beginnings. Celebrated every fifty years according to the Hebrew calendar, it’s a sacred time marked by the cancellation of debts, the return of land to original families, and a renewed focus on justice, compassion, and communal care. In this spirit, tending to the sick takes on deeper ...
When you see the white smoke rise, Do not look for thrones or crowns. Do not strain to hear the trumpets, Or expect the voice of kings. Look instead to trembling footsteps In the echo of the Upper Room – Where sandals tread on sacred ground, And silence bears the weight of Rome. He comes not wrapped in power, But ...
A case of aquaponics skills by Silveira House Zimbabwe has largely been in the throes of food insecurity for close to a quarterof a century, since 2000. More attention and focus on food strategies andinterventions have largely targeted rural folk, deservedly so, but paid lip serviceto urban food vulnerabilities. Urban food systems have largely been thought offrom a consumption perspective ...
‘There is a dream dreaming us’, is a saying of the people of the Kalahari. I takeit to mean there is something far greater than we can imagine accompanying uson our journey. ‘I will plant a noble cedar on the high mountain of Israel’, saysEzekiel, ‘and it will sprout branches and bear fruit.’ We are hardly consciousmuch of the time ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
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