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David Baker, Jill Balie, Martine Basson, Yvonne Bates,

Vilma Benedetti, Samantha Blom, Patricia Bode,

Anthony Botha, Cheryl Breytenbach, Anne Briginshaw,

Bronwen Brotherhood, Peter Budde, Colleen Campbell,

Bradley Campbell, Chase Ching, Kevin Cilliers, Gregory

Cobbledick, Mikayla Coetzee, Franco Colarossi,

Rosemary Cooke, Giovanni Corielle, Jenniffer Cunha,

Luigi D’eramo, Emillie De Fleuriot De LA Coliniere, Lina

De Sousa, Jonathan Deighton, Nontando Duma,

Lucretia Edwards, Mary Ellwood, Stenio Fabre, Anke

Fagelund-Gjersoe, Dominique Ferriere, Louise

Fitzsimons, Nicole Flood, Luciano Gigante, Margaret

Green, Randolph Green Thompson, Margaret Hamman,

Dieter Hamman, Nic Haskell, Tamra Hill, Yvonne

Hughes, Ethan Hurst, Kenneth Hutchinson, Peter Jones,

Jannie Joubert, Milan Jurjevic, Sandy Kedian, Byron

Kelbe, Colleen Kilfoil, Sean Kilfoil, Nathan Kloppers,

Caitlin Kloppers, Thamani Kunene, Isabella Kunene,

Vincent Lawe, Barry Lelong, Hans Linz, Sybil Maingard,

Matthew Martin, Jennifer McDonald, Kathleen Metzer,

Nkululeko Mfeka, Pamela Mfeka, Thamsanqa Mhlongo,

Vusi Mhlungu, Claire Miller, May Miller, Kwenzobuhle

Mncwabe, Hlengiwe Mngoma, Thamsanqa Mohlomi,

Pam Montile, Desmond Motha, Vuyo Msomi, Xolile

Mtwa, Brian Neel, Slade Nelson, Kayleigh Neville,

Zanele Ngubane, Steven Nyirenda, Marco Paulo, Dawn

Pilkington, Colette Powell, Jemma Ramlakan, Morel

Rosseau, Michel Rougier-Lagane, Willie Scherzer, Sarah

Schwikkard, Noel Swart, Talia Van Der Linde,

Emilia Van Heerden, Lena Walters, Di Wheatley, Gail

White, Avril Williamson, Barbara Wood, Bradley

Wortmann, Beverley Wortmann, Nokwanda Zuma,

Astrid Zwart

And celebrating their milestone birthdays are: 40

th: Garry Bell

50th

: Nhlanhla Msomi and Innocent Ndlovu

60th

: Peter Basson, Jeremy Campbell, Mary Ann Carpenter and Roslyn Tripepi

70th

: James McKenna

80th

: Nelsie Gray

Apologies to Porky Cunha who celebrated his 60th

birthday last month and was not mentioned in the

Chronicle. We hope you had a lovely day!

To Andrew & Helen McKay and family, Thami &

Zinhle Shezi and family and Lesley Bergsma, who

recently joined our parish. We hope you will enjoy

being part of the St Dom’s family!

To Luciano and Karin Gigante on the birth of their

grandson, Owen James Paolo Eastes, born earlier

this year in London, first child of Nicoletta and

Donovan Eastes.

To Mikaela Howard, who has been chosen as a

Prefect next year at St. John’s in Pietermaritzburg.

The St DomOctober 2019

(Established April 1991)

Mission Statement: Christianity through learning, caring and serving.

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The St Dom Chronicle – October 2019


To the following children, who achieved 100%

attendance for the third term:

Catechism: Khayelihle Khuzwayo, Cael Knight,

Anna Milburn, Isabella Milburn, Olivia Milburn,

Claire Miller, Kate Miller, Leah Mitchell, Mathew

Msani, Keira Swanepoel, Sanelisiwe Tigere and

Ntando Zulu

Edge: Julia Cameron and Daniel Joubert

LifeTeen: Rebecca Ronald

To September’s winners of the SSVP 100 Club

draw. 1st prize: Sharon Daly, 2nd prize: Murray

White, 3rd prize: Paul Mazoue.

To the Janus family, who are emigrating. Wishing

you all the best in this new chapter.

To Peter Lakin, on the loss of Ilda Healy.

To Sharon Daly, whose mother, Marilyn Daly

passed away. Marilyn was a longstanding and very

involved parishioner at St Dominic’s, and a friend

to many of us. She and her husband, Peter,

worked tirelessly within SSVP especially, but also

other ministries at St Dom’s, such as the Caring

Ministry, which Marilyn headed up until she fell ill.

Say hello to Peter for us Marilyn… we will all miss

you very, very much.

May their souls and the souls of all the faithful

departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

Our stewardship campaign for 2019/2020 will

kick off on the weekend of 6 & 7 October, when

new PPC chair, Pauline Rousseau, will be

addressing us. Financial dedication forms will also

be handed out, filled in and collected.

This year’s Sacrament of Confirmation will be

celebrated on Sunday, 20 October at 5pm by

Archbishop Abel Gabuza. A bring and share

supper will be held after mass. All are welcome.

The Community Services Committee are

appealing for second-hand caps and hats for the

children and teenagers from the Siyathandwe

Drop-in Centre, who will be taken on an outing on

Monday, 30 September. Please place them in the

Community Services box at the church entrance

by Sunday, 29 September.

The Maintenance Committee are appealing for a

carpet in good condition, which will be laid on

the stairs going up to the loft. If you are able to

donate good carpeting, contact the parish office.

Our Walking Group continues to meet and walk

on Saturday mornings. All ages are welcome.

Our Repository is open after all weekend masses

and stocks an assortment of gifts for First Holy

Communion, Confirmation and other occasions,

as well as books, cards, Bibles, rosaries etc.

Free Retirement EXPO

Kloof Retirement Villages is hosting a free Retirement EXPO on:

Saturday, 12 October Westville Country Club

8:30am – 12:00pm There will be companies exhibiting and a panel of experts for a question and answer session. So come along and ask your questions regarding retirement, life rights, waiting lists and anything else you may need to know. We look forward to meeting you.

RCIA Programme – October 2019

3 October: Catholics and prayer; Catholic practices

10 October: Catholics and Church

17 October: The Sacrament of Baptism

24 October: The Sacrament of Confirmation and the

Sacrament of the Eucharist

31 October: The Sacrament of Penance and

Reconciliation

RCIA takes place every Thursday at 6pm in The

Meeting Place. Confirmed Catholics are more than

welcome to attend a particular session if the topic

interests them.



Following the Mass of Ordination, a reception will be held in the parish hall, where a light meal will be served. Please let the parish office know if you will be attending by 16 October. All parishioners are most welcome to join.

A huge thank you to our parishioners and our

catechism children for their amazing response to our

toothpaste and toothbrush appeal for the Christmas

boxes we will be making up for the less fortunate

children in the valley. We are calling on your support

in October for facecloths and bath soaps. Thank you

and God bless you!

Thank you Imelda Haarhoff for sponsoring the

puppet show which was put on by Puppet World at the

Siyathandwe Centre for the preschool children. It was a

well presented, educational puppet show and was

enjoyed by all. Thanks to Rose Carr and her family for

providing the snack packs for the children.

The Elna sewing machine donated by John Snook was

handed over to Sthembiso Mbili at the Embo Parish on

Sunday 8 September. Community Services has given

him his first sewing order for 50 preschool fitted sheets

for our outreach projects. Community Services

members donated good second-hand flat sheets which

are being used for this project.

Ekurtheleni Day Care Centre in Molweni, run by an

amazing Gogo, Mrs Shezi and five staff, who take care

of 80 underprivileged children, received a jungle gym.

Rotary Hillcrest offered the jungle gym to Community

Services, which had been donated to them by Westville

Old Boys.



The 1000 Hills Chef School donated a large amount of

fresh food, which we were able to share between our

outreach projects i.e. Feeding Scheme, Itemba Elisha

and Siyathandwe Centre. Thank you and blessings!

The Winston Park Primary School children, together

with their parents, and wonderful teacher Robyn

Hewitt, have blessed our outreach projects in many

ways this term. They visited the feeding scheme and

handed the 80 children at the feeding scheme a

number of second-hand clothing items each. They also

visited the Itemba Elisha home. They blessed the

preschool children and adults with second-hand

clothing and the little ones also received cuddly soft

toys. The school children spent time playing with the

little children and gave them some much needed

attention.

Thank you to all Community Services Committee

members who collected and donated a number of

items towards an appeal by Genesis Crèche in

Molweni, which is holding a family day in October and

want to have a stall selling second-hand items to raise

money to replace the roof of their crèche. We collected

bedding, kitchen items, beanies, scarves, cosmetics,

jewellery, handbags etc. for them.

Thank you to everyone who donated story books

and toys, which have been shared between our

outreach projects.

THE BLACK MADONNA OF POLAND

By Jenny Meilhon

A number of parishioners have asked about the picture

of the Black Madonna now hanging in St Dominic’s

Lady Chapel, presented to Fr John and the parish by

the pilgrims on their return from Poland. According to

tradition, the icon of Our Lady called the Black

Madonna housed in the Jasna Góra Monastery,

Czȩstochowa, was painted by Luke the Evangelist on a

table top built by Jesus himself. The icon was

discovered by St. Helen, mother of Emperor

Constantine and collector of Christian relics in the Holy

Land. The icon was then enshrined in the imperial city

of Constantinople, according to the legend, where it

remained for the next 500 years.

In 803, it is said the painting was given as a

wedding gift from the Byzantine emperor to a Greek

princess on her marriage to a Ruthenian nobleman and

placed in the royal palace at Belz where it remained for

nearly 600 years. History tells that the icon arrived in

Poland in 1382 with a Polish army fleeing from the

Tartars who had struck it with an arrow.

A monastery was founded in Czȩstochowa to

enshrine the icon in 1386, and soon Polish King

Jagiello built a cathedral around the chapel containing

the icon.

The image came under attack once again in 1430,

when the Hussites (pre-Reformation reformers)

attacked the monastery and slashed the Virgin's face

with a sword. They left it desecrated in a puddle of

blood and mud. A miraculous fountain appeared when

the monks pulled the icon from the mud. They used

the water from this fountain to clean the painting. Both

the arrow mark and the gashes from the sword were

left after repainting in Krakow and remain clearly

visible today.

The miracle for which the Black Madonna is most

famous occurred in 1655, when Swedish troops were

about to invade Czȩstochowa. A group of Polish

soldiers prayed fervently before the icon for

deliverance, and the enemy retreated. In 1656, King

John Casimir declared Our Lady of Czȩstochowa

“Queen of Poland” and made the city the spiritual

capital of the nation.

In 1920, Our Lady of Czȩstochowa again came to

the aid of Poland when the Soviet Russian Red Army

gathered on the banks of the Vistula River, preparing

to attack Warsaw. The citizens and soldiers again

prayed fervently to Our Lady in front of the icon, and

on September 15, the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows,

she appeared in the clouds above Warsaw. The

Russians were defeated in a series of battles later

dubbed the “Miracle at the Vistula”.

Hilter prohibited pilgrimages to Jasna Góra during

the Nazi occupation, but many still secretly made the

journey. After Poland was liberated in 1945, half a

million pilgrims journeyed to Częstochowa to express

their gratitude. On 8 September 1946, 1.5 million

people gathered at the shrine to rededicate the entire

nation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. During the

Cold War, Jasna Góra was a centre of anti-Communist

resistance.

Pope John Paul II, a native of Poland, was a fervent

devotee of the Virgin Mary and of her icon at

Czȩstochowa. As pope, he made pilgrimages to pray

before the Black Madonna in 1979, 1983, 1991, and



1997. In 1991, he held his Sixth World Youth Day at

Czȩstochowa, which was attended by 350,000 young

people from across Europe. Other popes have

honoured the “Queen of Poland” as well. Pope

Clement XI officially recognised the miraculous nature

of the image in 1717 and in 1925 Pope Pius XI

designated 3 May a feast day in her honour. Pope

Benedict XVI visited the shrine on 26 May 2006.

The Virgin Mary and Child Jesus are dressed in bejewelled robes and

crowns for special occasions.

The Last Laugh

Finally a Husband's point of view

These are our rules! Please note: these are all

numbered "1" ON PURPOSE!

1. Husbands are NOT mind readers.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this

one: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not

work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it!

1. ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ are perfectly acceptable answers to

almost every question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help

solving it. That's what we do. Sympathy is what your

girlfriends are for.

1. Anything we said six months ago is inadmissible

in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and

void after 7 days.

1. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't

ask us.

1. If something we said can be interpreted in two

ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we

meant the other one.

1. You can either ask us to do something or tell us

how you want it done. Not both. If you already know

best how to do it, just do it yourself.

1. Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions

and neither do we.

1. ALL men see in only 16 colours, like Windows

default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a

colour. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what

mauve is.

1. If we ask what is wrong and you say “nothing”,

we will act like nothing's wrong. We know you are

lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.

1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless

you are prepared to discuss such topics as rugby, cars,

bikes or games.

Thank you for reading this. Yes, I know, I have to

sleep on the couch tonight; but did you know men

really don't mind that? It's like camping.

PUBLIC ROSARY CRUSADE 2019

Saturday 12 October 2019

At 12 noon

On the Old Main Road verge of St Dominic’s In unison with parishes throughout South Africa, we will be praying the Rosary in public at 12 noon on Saturday 12 October. Among other intentions, we will pray for the conversion of South Africa, that our national leaders will seek to do God’s will, honour His laws and be blessed with the wisdom and knowledge necessary to solve South Africa’s complex problems and for an end to the terrible sins afflicting our nation. We hope that many St Dom’s parishioners will make every effort to join in this public prayer. At Fatima Our Lady asked for prayer, penance and sacrifice for the conversion of sinners. The Rosary is the prayer. Standing in a public place is the penance, and making time for it is the sacrifice.

Second-hand goods

Anyone who would like to sell second-hand furniture

or appliances due to relocation or when replacing

them with new ones, please contact Robynne Lott on

084 510 479.



RCIA

Thursday evenings

6pm

The Meeting Place

All are welcome

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