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Camilla Alunni, Alessandro Alunni, Merle Angus, Maria

Areal, Belinda Bandle, Phumzile Bhengu, Brody Bircher,

Dylan Bissett, Dino Borrageiro, Jade Bosman, Julliette

Botha, Lorna Bowton-Smith, Graham Boyce, Teresa

Camoin, Francois Chelin, Noeline Cloete, Katy

Coombe-Nel, Jane Croot, Sharon Daly, Dwain De Klerk,

Denise de Wit, Rosalind Donnelly, Thomas Donnelly,

Annita Dos Santos, Clarissa Draai, Liam Du Plessis,

Philippe Ducler Des Rauches, Maureen Ferguson, Sean

Flanagan, Errol Forbay, Taylor Gregson, Aidan Hikins,

Ann Hikins, Nona Hlengwa, Greer Hoar, Peter Hoar,

Ashleigh Holmes, Antonia Holt, Ian Holt, Ethan

Hughes, Harold Hutt, Mirabel Ikedi, Stephen Jacobs,

Glynis Jacobs, Winetta Jurjevic, Nkozimulo Khumalo,

Jessica Kilfoil, Mark Kuster, Sanele Kuzwayo,

Kamalapathy Landro, Cheryl Landsberg, Corinne

Lategan, Tommy Leach, Lesley Leffler, Bruce Lello,

Dawn Leppan, Mark Lindon, Valerie Lloyd-Warren, Don

Macfarlane, Bandile Makhaye, Colin Marshall, Ian

Matthews, Musawenkosi Mbokazi, Ellen McConnell,

Jeanette McMahon, Annabelle Meaker, Lorraine Mee,

Michelle Midgley, Olivia Milburn, Samuel Mitchell, Clive

Mitchell, Mandisa Mkhize, Edward Mngoma, Emma

Moore, Marie-Helene Moustache, Ntokoza Mpanza,

Noah-Lee Naicker, Ella Naude, Dave Naude, Pauline

Newton, Brian Ngcobo, Busi Ngcobo, Emmanuel

Ngcobo, Ananda Ngubane, Janet O Leary, Norman

Peddie, Liam Peters, Leslie Peters, Denise Powell, Zoe

Purcell, Patricia Quinn, Tayla Quintal, Hannah

Schimper, Craig Schwikkard, Elia Sciocatti, Cole

Shingler, Margaret Smart, James Smart, Bettie

Smulders, Caroline Sparks, Merle Stone, Keira

Swanepoel, Kate Swart, Wayne Taylor, Gordon Turner,

Avril Wasas, Paul Webster, Hannah Willows, Paul

Wortmann and Amyoli Zwane. .

And celebrating their milestone birthdays are:

21st: Samkelo Mfeka

50th

: Marcia De Klerk and Tarisai Magumo

60th

: Gillian Hunter and Simon Manyange

70th

: Marilyn Parker, Theresia Cobb and Barbara Brandjes

To the following new parishioners: Clarke & Jill

Balie. We hope you will enjoy being part of the St

Dom’s family.

To Pat Daly for donating musical rhythm

instruments and books to the Bethlehem Drop In

Centre, which the children are enjoying with Anne,

Annabelle, Rose, Larraine & Sabrina for music.

The St DomApril 2018

(Established April 1991)

Mission Statement: Christianity through learning, caring and serving.

Church office: (031) 765 5515 www.stdom.co.za

The St Dom Chronicle – April 2018


To Gravin and Lindy Phyffer who donated a slide

for the preschool children of the Bethlehem Drop

In Centre and to John Connolly for putting it up.

As you can see below, the children are having so

much fun with their new equipment.

To Yvonne Howard for arranging a huge donation

of good second-hand wax crayons, koki pens,

pencil crayons and glue sticks from HCA Curro

Pre-Primary. These were shared between the

children at the Bethlehem crèche and the primary

and high school children at the two Drop In

Centres.

To Wayne Redman for running the sponsor

evening for this year’s confirmation candidates.

To Jan Kalinowski for presenting an extremely

interesting Breakfast Talk on Purgatory.

To the dedication of the parents of our Catechism

children, which has resulted in good attendance

at Catechism this first term of 2018.

To Raphael and Bianca Wilson on the birth of

their daughter, Amalia.

To Kyle and Christin Smith on the birth of their

daughter, Aurora.

To Cuan and Jennifer Lott on the birth of their

daughter, Chloe Ann, and to very proud grannies,

Robynne Lott and Eileen Sharp.

To March’s SSVP 100 Club Draw winners. 1st prize:

Maureen Emslie; 2nd

prize: Anne Hikins; 3rd

prize

Mark Kuster.

(Courtesy: Mike Buckle)

To Albert Funga, whose wife, Diana Funga, passed

away recently.

It is with sadness that we also announce the

passing of Bern Boulle. Bern and her husband

Marc were founder members of St Dom’s and she

wrote the music for the parts of the Mass for the

first Mass held in the present church. She

conducted the choir for many years and was part

of the Liturgy Committee. May her soul rest in

peace.

The mass intention for the 8.00am mass and

rosary on Saturday, 7 April will be for redemption.

The second Sunday of Easter, which this year

falls on 8 April, is also known as Divine Mercy

Sunday. For more on this devotion, read on.

The fourth Sunday of Easter, 22 April, is the

World Day of Prayer for Vocations when we will

pray for more vocations to the religious life.

The next pre-baptism class for those wanting to

have their children baptised will be held on

Wednesday, 11 April at 5.30pm. Parents are

requested to see Fr John before attending.

Holy Week 2018

29 March: Holy Thursday 6pm – Holy Mass

Followed by a vigil at the Altar of Repose

30 March: Good Friday

7am – Stations of the Cross Please bring buttered hot-cross

buns to share thereafter

3pm – The Passion of our Lord

31 March: Easter Vigil

7pm – Holy Mass

1 April: Easter Sunday

8am – Holy Mass

Please note that there will be no 5pm evening mass on Easter Sunday.



The St Dom Chronicle wishes you

and your loved ones a blessed and

meaningful Holy Week, when we

commemorate God’s immense love

for us through His Passion, Death

and Resurrection.

What is Divine Mercy?

In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonised Sister Faustina

Kowalska (1905-1938), the young Polish nun whose

visions of Jesus Christ revealed to the world the

boundless love and mercy of Our Lord. “Mankind will

not have peace until it turns with trust to my mercy,”

Jesus said to St. Faustina. In his sermon at the

canonisation Mass, Pope John Paul declared that the

message of Divine Mercy is “God’s gift to our time.” In

a world filled with suffering, violence, and confusion,

the pope urged us to take refuge in the Divine Mercy.

And to encourage this devotion, which he considered

so important to the spiritual life of all Catholics, he

proclaimed that the Sunday after Easter would

henceforth be the feast of Divine Mercy, thereby

fulfilling one of the requests Christ made through St.

Faustina.

The message of The Divine Mercy is simple. It is that

God loves us – all of us. And, he wants us to recognise

that His mercy is greater than our sins, so that we will

call upon Him with trust, receive His mercy, and let it

flow through us to others. Thus, all will come to share

His joy.

This message and devotion to Jesus as The Divine

Mercy is based on the writings of Saint Faustina

Kowalska, an uneducated Polish nun who, in obedience

to her spiritual director, wrote a diary of about 600

pages recording the revelations she received about

God's mercy. Even before her death in 1938, the

devotion to The Divine Mercy had begun to spread.

To find out more about this devotion, visit

http://www.thedivinemercy.org.

Please note that the church office will be closed

from Good Friday, 30 March and will reopen on

Monday, 9 April.

Following our Good Friday Stations of the Cross

on 30 March, The Fourth Cup by Scott Hahn will

be shown in the hall. Discover a whole new

dimension to Holy Mass, and the relationship of

the Last Supper to the Eucharistic celebration

through this exciting video. All are welcome.

Our Centring Prayer group will start meeting

once again after Easter. This group of parishioners

meets every 2nd & 4th Friday of the month in the

Meeting Place from 4.15pm for about 1 hour. If

you’re not sure what Centring Prayer is all about,

just come along and the group will guide you! All

are welcome to attend.

The Spiritual Life Committee will be hosting

another movie evening on Friday, 13 April 2018

in the hall. The movie to be screened will be "The

Shoes of the Fisherman". Please bring your own

drinks and a plate of eats share.

Following our Breakfast Talk last month on

Purgatory, it was proposed that we have a

monthly presentation on some of the

misunderstood doctrines of our faith. This will

now take place in a more informal coffee, muffins

and rusks session in the hall and will be known as

the “Seekers’ Coffee Bar”. Each session will

include a short presentation followed by Q&A.

Our first session will take place on Saturday,

14 April at 8am and the topic will be

“Indulgences: What are they?” All are most

welcome to attend.



SSVP HELP SERVE THE HOMELESS AT THE

DENNIS HURLEY CENTRE (DHC)

Together with other conferences in the Durban

Diocese, the Hillcrest Conference of the Society of St

Vincent de Paul are on a roster to help feed the

homeless at the Dennis Hurley Centre’s Nkosinati

Project for the Homeless. Teams of five from St

Dominic’s drive down to Cathedral Road on a Saturday

every six weeks to be on duty at 08h00.

They prepare and serve breakfast of a sandwich and

tea, and then wash up. Meat and vegetables are then

prepared for lunch to go with either rice and lentils,

putu or whatever has been donated or is available on

that day. Lunch is then served at midday.

Approximately 190 people are served in six sittings

at both breakfast and lunch. After lunch, plates are

washed up including huge cooking pots. The Director

of the DHC, Raymond Perrier, is very strict about all

helpers wearing caps when at work, so we hope you

recognise two of the SSVP members on duty a couple

of Saturdays ago!

SSVP Hillcrest also assists the DHC with supplies for

its Usizo Lwethu Clinic which provides invaluable

medical care to the homeless of Durban.

If you want to learn more about the DHC and these

two projects, please visit www.denishurleycentre.org.

From left to right: Marilyn Daly and Teresa Coleman from our SSVP. The two

wonderful cooks at the DHC, Constance Mhlongo (once homeless herself) and

Nonhlanhla Nclovu.

GRANDMOTHER’S APRON Author unknown

The principal use of grandma's apron was to protect

the dress underneath, but along with that:

It served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.

It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.

From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

When company came, that apron was an ideal hiding place for shy kids.

And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.

That big old apron wiped a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood-stove.

Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.

From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.

In autumn, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

When dinner was ready, grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many worth-while purposes. (Courtesy: Vilma Benedetti)

The Thief on the Other Cross:

A Good Friday Monologue

by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson (adapted)

“I don't belong here. I really don't. Paradise is the last

place I expected to end up after all I've done. Let me

tell you my story.

I am — I was — an armed robber, I guess you'd call

it. Me and Jake and the others would live in caves in

the Judean hills near the road from Jerusalem to

Jericho. We made our living by violence. We wouldn't

take on people in the big groups that passed. They

travelled together for safety. But a family alone would



be an easy mark, as well as anyone foolish enough to

travel by himself.

Brandishing a strong staff would usually do the

trick. Threaten them with a beating and they'd give up

without much of a fight. But I've been known to break

a few bones in my day, God forgive me. I don't think I

actually killed anyone, but then I never stayed around

long enough to find out.

The first time I meet Jesus is when I am invited to a

party in his honour in Jericho at the home of a rich tax

collector named Zacchaeus. I am introduced, we shake

hands, and Jesus looks me in the eye for

a long moment. He can see right into me, who I am,

every crime I have ever committed. Then he smiles this

big friendly smile. “You know,” he says, “there's

forgiveness for you in my Kingdom. How about it?”

I drop my eyes, say something non-committal, and

shuffle away.

It isn't much later when me and my friend Jake —

the guy on the third cross — get caught by a Roman

patrol.

And so it happens that on the same day that they

crucify Jesus, they crucify me and Jake — one of us on

his left, the other on his right. But this isn't any normal

crucifixion. Mobs of people are there just because of

Jesus. Self-righteous Pharisees are swaggering and

mocking. Jake begins cat-calling, too, if you can

imagine that. I yell over at him, “You miserable thug,

don't you have any fear of God? Can't you see that

we're going to die just like he is? We're getting exactly

what we deserve, but he has done nothing wrong.”

Jake quiets down and the Pharisees lose interest.

But I can't get Jericho out of my mind. I can't forget

Jesus' eyes, his words, his invitation. And so I call over

to him, though it’s getting hard to breathe and talking

makes it that much harder.

“Jesus!” I say. He turns his head towards me. “Jesus,

I was there in Jericho. I met you at a party at

Zacchaeus' house. Remember?”

He looks at me for a moment and then nods his

head just a little. He does remember.

“I never forgot what you said. I wanted to say yes,

but just couldn't.”

He is in bad shape — exhausted, in excruciating

pain, back oozing, breath laboured. But somehow I can

see beyond all that. He was the Messiah, is the

Messiah, no matter what those priests and Romans and

Pharisees have done to him. And when he dies, he will

be with God. In a few hours, maybe less, he will be

vindicated. He will reign in that Kingdom he told us

about.

“Jesus,” I say, “when you come into your Kingdom,

would you remember me?”

His words are laboured, his lips parched, but I can

still hear him pretty well. “Truly, I say to you....” His

voice cracks, then is stronger for a moment. “Truly, this

very day you will be with me in Paradise.”

His eyes droop. He is fading quickly now. But I

believe him. I do! That's what gets me through those

next few hours until they break my legs to kill me. I

do believe him!

And then I find myself here in heaven, in Paradise. I

sure don't deserve to be here, but here I am anyway. I

guess that's what a man like me gets when the King

himself grants a pardon; full forgiveness.

Pretty amazing, don't you think?”

The Last Laugh… These notices actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced at church services… oops! The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. The sermon this morning: Jesus Walks on the Water. The sermon tonight: 'Searching for Jesus.' Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands. Don't let worry kill you off – let the Church help. Miss Charlene Mason sang, 'I will not pass this way again,' giving obvious pleasure to the congregation. For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs. Next Thursday there will be try-outs for the choir. They need all the help they can get. Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days. At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and listen to our choir practice. Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones. Pot-luck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM – prayer and medication to follow. This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin. Low Self-Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7pm. Please use the back door.



Movie Evening

“The Shoes of the Fisherman”

Friday 13 April 6.30pm

St Dom Parish Hall

Bring own drinks and plate of eats to share.

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