Green Point Roman Catholic Church

30/08/2026

Christmas - at - St Margaret Mary 2026
Celebrating the Season of Giving, Creativity & Community

Join us for a wonderful programme of Christmas events for the whole family:

Sunday 8th November 2026 10:00-11:00
Christmas Arts & Crafts -
R25 per child
WE ARE CURRENTLY COLLECTING

Sunday 15th November 2026 10:00-11:00
Christmas Biscuit Decorating -
R25 per child

Sunday 22nd November 2026 10:00-11:00
Orphanage Gift Packing Day
Craft supplies
Coloured paper, Paint, Paint brushes, Gold Glitter paper, Glue, Ribbon, Tw**e, Artificial greenery. Popcorn kernels, Needles and thread

Sunday 29th November 2026 10:00-11:00
Church Decorating Day

Sunday 6th December 2026
Christmas Market -
R200 per stall if you are selling /
R10 entrance fee

Saturday 12th December 2026
Christmas Movie - 14:00-16:30 - (includes snacks)
R60 per person

Tuesday 15th December 2026
Christmas Family Celebration - 18:30-20:30 - bring a dish to share on our harvest family table and we will eat together.

Saturday 19th December 2026
Orphanage Visit & Gift Delivery
No cost
Biscuit decorating supplies
Icing sugar, Food colouring,
Sprinkles, disposable
Piping bags, Marshmallows,
Hot chocolate powder,
Paper cups
Orphanage Box supplies
small Toys and teddy bears, Children's books, Colouring books and crayons, Notebooks and pens, Toiletries (underarm, toothpaste, toothbrush), chocolate bars (any type)
For donations please bring them to church -

If you are interested in renting a market
if you can contact Isabel 0828082468 or
stall, please contact us for a booking form.

Jill 0789758419 and let us know what you
All booking forms and payment to be
are planning to donate and when it will
received by 9th October again for
help with our planning purposes.

WE are very excited about creating a wonderful Christmas spirit for the kids...
Thank you and God Bless

16/08/2026

Today, we gathered to celebrate the glorious Feast of the Assumption of our Blessed Mother, Mary.

This solemnity reminds us of the profound mystery that Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was taken body and soul into heavenly glory. It is a celebration of hope, divine love, and the fulfilment of God's promises.

Throughout her life, Mary showed perfect obedience to God's will, humility, and faith. Her "yes" at the Annunciation changed history and became a model for all believers.

As she stood at the foot of the Cross, her suffering and trust in God's plan. And today, we honour her as the Queen of Heaven and Earth, crowned with glory by her Son.

The Assumption teaches us that death is not the end for those who belong to Christ. Mary's assumption into heaven foreshadows the promise given to all of us-that we, too, will share in the resurrection and eternal life. It encourages us to live our lives with hope and confidence in the power of God's grace.
Let us imitate Mary s virtues—her humility, her trust, her compassion —and strive to follow her example.

As we look to her as our mother and guide, may we be inspired to remain faithful, to serve others, and to keep our eyes fixed on eternal life.

On this special day, let us pray for the grace to always keep our hope alive in the promise of Christ's victory over death.

May her assumption remind us that with God, all things are possible, and that our true home is with Him in heaven.

Amen.

10/08/2026

Covenants and Rainbows – God In All Things

In Genesis 9:13-16, God promised Noah that He would never again send a catastrophic flood to destroy all life on Earth. He placed the rainbow in the clouds as a lasting sign of this covenant between Himself and every living creature.

The Meaning of the Promise:

No More Global Floods: God stated that water would never again rise up to wipe out all flesh and life on the planet.

An Everlasting Sign: The rainbow serves as a visual token of an eternal promise made to all generations.

A Divine Reminder: God noted that when the rainbow appears in the clouds, He will look upon it and remember His covenant

28/07/2026

Don’t forget this exciting book launch coming up.

Join us for a glass of w**e afterwards at the book signing

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE CAPE TOWN BOOK LAUNCH

His Excellency Archbishop
Henryk M. Jagodziński, Apostolic Nuncio to Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho

ON WED, 29 JULY 2026
AT 18:00
At Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Green Point (Cnr Somerset Road & Napier)

RSVP by 14 July 2026 to [email protected] or WhatsApp
Fr Bogdan Buksa 073 378 4912 or
Register on this LINK https://bit.ly/CAPE-TOWN-BOOK-LAUNCH

“Southern Africa My Love:
Part One” - Hepryk M. Jagodzinski
Apostolic Nuncio

Book published by
The Commissariat of the Holy Land for Southern Africa

Copies of the book will be on sale for R200 each.

All proceeds will be donated to the Holy Land.

26/07/2026

Today's readings invite us to reflect on one simple but profound question: What do we value most?

In the first reading (1 Kings 3:5, 7-12), the young King Solomon is given an extraordinary opportunity.

God tells him to ask for anything. Solomon could have asked for wealth, power, a long life, or victory over his enemies. Instead, he asks for wisdom —an understanding heart to lead God's people well.

God is pleased because Solomon's request shows that he values God's will above personal gain.

In the Gospel (Matthew 13:44-52), Jesus tells three short parables. The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, a merchant who discovers a pearl of great price, and a net gathering fish.

The first two parables highlight the incomparable value of God's kingdom.

The people who discover the treasure and the pearl gladly sell everything they have because they know they have found something far greater.

These parables challenge us to ask ourselves: What is the treasure of my life?
Is it success, comfort, possessions, reputation, or something else? None of these things are bad in themselves, but they can never satisfy the deepest longings of the human heart. Only God can.

Choosing the kingdom of God does not necessarily mean giving up everything materially. Rather, it means placing Christ at the centre of our decisions, relationships, work, and priorities. It means loving God above all else and allowing that love to shape every aspect of our lives.

The third parable reminds us that one day there will be a final judgment. God is patient and merciful, but we are called to respond now by living faithful and holy lives. Every day is an opportunity to choose God's kingdom again.

Like Solomon, we should pray for wisdom-the wisdom to recognize what truly matters and the courage to act on it. In a world that constantly tells us to chase temporary pleasures and achievements, the Gospel reminds us that the greatest treasure is a life lived in friendship with God.

As we gather around the Eucharistic table today, we receive the greatest treasure of all: Jesus Christ himself.

He is the pearl of great price. May we recognize his presence, treasure him above all else, and leave this celebration ready to live as faithful disciples.

Amen

19/07/2026

Our Homily today focused on the reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
“Let them both grow till the harvest”
13:24-43

When the servants noticed the weeds, they asked the master, "Do you want us to pull them up?" Surprisingly, he says, "No. Let both grow together until the harvest."

At first, this response seems strange. Why allow the weeds to remain? Wouldn't they harm the wheat?

Jesus uses this parable to teach us something profound about God's patience and mercy. We often want quick solutions. We like to separate the good from the bad immediately. We judge people, situations, and even ourselves. But God sees what we cannot. He knows that not right judgment can destroy the good that is still growing.

The field represents the world-and also our own hearts. Within each of us there is wheat and there are weeds. There are moments of generosity, kindness, and faithfulness, but there are also weaknesses, sins, and selfish tendencies. God does not give up on us because of our imperfections.

Instead, He patiently nurtures the good within us, giving us time to repent, grow, and bear fruit.

Saint Paul, in the second reading, offers source of hope. He tells us that even when we do not know how to pray, the Holy Spirit prays within us. God does not expect perfection before He loves us. He walks with us in our weakness, helping us become what He created us to be.

This Gospel also challenges us in how we treat others. It is easy to label people as "good" or "bad," "worthy" or "unworthy." Yet every person is still growing.

Someone who struggles today may become a saint tomorrow. We need only think of Saint Augustine, Saint Paul, or Saint Peter. God's grace transformed their lives because He gave them time and they responded to His call.

This does not mean we ignore evil or pretend that sin does not matter. Jesus is clear that there will be a final harvest, a time when justice will be done. But that judgment belongs to God, not to us. Our task is to cultivate the wheat-to encourage goodness, speak the truth in love, forgive generously, and trust God's timing.

As we gathered around the Eucharistic table today, we asked ourselves:

May this Eucharist strengthen us to become good wheat in the Lord's field. May we grow in faith, hope, and love, and allow God's mercy to transform us day by day until the final harvest, when we will rejoice in His kingdom forever.

Amen.

12/07/2026

This Sunday we celebrated a Thanksgiving Mass at the Sacred Heart Church in our Green Point Parish.

What made our Mass even more special was that the celebrant today was the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Reverend Sithembele Anton Sipuka, who was joined by our Priest, Father Bogdan Buksa, and Father Robert Bissell of St Mary’s Cathedral.

The thanks in our hearts was toward the craftsmen, donors and benefactors who made the renovation of Sacred Heart possible. And we had hearts full of thanks to God for blessing the project and His blessing upon all those who contributed toward making His house beautiful and a place worthy of His worship.

The homily focused on the parable of the seeds. Those that landed on the hard path. Those that landed on rocky soil. Those that landed amongst the thorns and then those that landed on fertile soil.

The Archbishop focused our hearts and minds on to another metaphor. That making our church beautiful is right and proper, but without a community of Christians to fill it, to go out and plant seeds of the Gospel where God’s love and kindness is seen through our works and interactions with every day life; the soil will not be fertile.

We were called to action to go and plant, and harvest 30, 60 and 100 fold but are reminded that as with God’s blessing upon the renovation, the planting and growing and life of our church community and in the world can only, like plants that receive good soil and rain and sunshine, flourish with God’s grace and in His hands, for His purposes. And importantly can only do so in hearts that are not hard, shallow and ensnared.

We must be the fertile soil. That receives the seeds, and then multiples them 30, 60 and 100 fold for the glory of the Lord and His kingdom.

02/07/2026

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE CAPE TOWN BOOK LAUNCH

His Excellency Archbishop
Henryk M. Jagodziński, Apostolic Nuncio to Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho

ON WED, 29 JULY 2026
AT 18:00
At Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Green Point (Cnr Somerset Road & Napier)

RSVP by 14 July 2026 to [email protected] or WhatsApp
Fr Bogdan Buksa 073 378 4912 or
Register on this LINK https://bit.ly/CAPE-TOWN-BOOK-LAUNCH

“Southern Africa My Love:
Part One” - Hepryk M. Jagodzinski
Apostolic Nuncio

Book published by
The Commissariat of the Holy Land for Southern Africa

Copies of the book will be on sale for R200 each.

All proceeds will be donated to the Holy Land.

14/06/2026

The central theme running through today's readings is God's gracious initiative in forming a people for Himself and sending them into the world as instruments of His saving work.

In the first reading, God speaks to Israel at Mount Sinai. Before giving the Law, He reminds them of what He has already done: "I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself."

The covenant begins not with human achievement but with divine grace. God first saves; then He calls. Israel's identity as "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" is rooted in God's election. Their vocation is mediatory: they are chosen so that through them the nations may come to know the true God.

This covenantal pattern reaches its fulfillment in Christ. What Israel was called to be finds its perfection in the Church. Through Baptism, believers share in Christ's priesthood and become a holy people set apart for God's glory. The Church is not only a religious association; she is the sacramental sign of God's saving presence in history.
St. Paul deepens this mystery in the second reading. Humanity stands helpless before sin and death. Yet "while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

Here Paul reveals the heart of Christian theology: salvation is entirely the work of God's grace. The Cross is not only an example of love; it is the act of reconciliation by which God restores communion between Himself and humanity.

The initiative always belongs to God. Before we loved Him, He loved us. The Father's love is manifested in the Son's sacrificial death, and through that death we are justified and reconciled. The Church Fathers often spoke of salvation as participation in the divine life. Christ becomes what we are so that we might share in what He is. Reconciliation is therefore not only forgiveness of sins but restoration of communion with God.

Jesus looks upon the crowds with compassion because they are "like sheep without a shepherd." The Greek word used for compassion indicates a deep movement from the very depths of His being. This compassion is not emotional sympathy; it reveals the mercy of God Himself entering human history.

The mission of the Twelve arises from this divine compassion. Jesus sends them to proclaim that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. He first gives them authority before He sends them. The Apostles do not represent themselves; they continue the mission of Christ.

This apostolic mission remains alive in the Church. Through apostolic succession, the mission entrusted to the Twelve continues in the bishops, priests, and the entire People of God.

The Church exists because she is sent. As the Father sent the Son, and the Son sent the Apostles, so the Church is commissioned to bring the saving presence of Christ to the world.

A theological connection links all three readings:
God elects Israel to be a priestly people.
Christ reconciles humanity through His sacrificial death.
The Apostles are sent to extend that reconciliation throughout the world.

Election, redemption, and mission form one continuous divine plan.

The Eucharist we celebrate today makes this mystery present. At every Mass, the Church gathers as God's covenant people, participates in Christ's reconciling sacrifice, and is then sent forth in mission. The dismissal "Go forth, the Mass is ended"-is not simply the conclusion of a service. It is a commissioning.

Having encountered Christ sacramentally, we are sent to make Him present in the world.

The question today's readings place before us is not simply whether we believe in Christ, but whether we understand our participation in His mission.

We who have been reconciled must become person of reconciliation. We who have received mercy must become witnesses to mercy. We who have been gathered into God's holy people must help gather others into the communion of the Kingdom.

For the Church is, in the words of the Second Vatican Council, "a sacrament of salvation"-the visible instrument through which God continues His work of drawing all people to Himself.

Amen.

07/06/2026

Today the Church celebrated the Solemnity of Corpus Christi-the Body and Blood of Christ. We gather to give thanks for the greatest gift Jesus left to His Church: Himself in the Eucharist.

At the Last Supper, Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it, and said: "This is my body, which is given for you." Then He took the cup and said: "This cup is the new covenant in my blood." Jesus did not merely give His followers a symbol or a reminder. He gave them His very self.

Through the Eucharist, the sacrifice of Calvary becomes present to us, and Christ continues to nourish His people with His Body and Blood.

In the first reading, Moses sealed God's covenant with the people using the blood of sacrificed animals. That covenant united Israel with God. But as the Letter to the Hebrews tells us, Christ established a new and eternal covenant—not with the blood of animals, but with His own blood. His sacrifice brings forgiveness, reconciliation, and new life.

The Eucharist is therefore much more than a sacred meal. It is a covenant relationship. Every time we come forward to receive Holy Communion, we are saying "yes" to that covenant.
We are saying that we belong to Christ and desire to live as His disciples.

Yet the Eucharist is not only about receiving; it is also about becoming. Saint Augustine famously told Christians: "Be what you receive." If we receive the Body of Christ, we are called to become the Body of Christ in the world.

This has practical consequences. We cannot receive the Bread of Life and remain indifferent to those who are hungry. We cannot share in the cup of Christ's sacrifice and refuse to make sacrifices for others. The Eucharist challenges us to live lives of charity, forgiveness, generosity, and service.

Consider the bread we receive at Mass. Bread is made from many grains gathered together and formed into one loaf. In the same way, the Eucharist gathers people of different backgrounds, ages, cultures, and experiences into one family. At the altar, divisions are meant to give way to communion.

Christ makes us one body.
The Eucharist reminds us that God's greatest works are often hidden. Under the simple appearances of bread and w**e, Christ is truly present. He comes to us with humility, waiting to be received with faith and love.

Perhaps many of us have become so familiar with the Eucharist that we no longer appreciated it. Today is an opportunity to ask for renewed faith. When we approach the altar, may we recognize that we are encountering the living Lord, the same Jesus who healed the sick, forgave sinners, died on the cross, and rose from the dead.

As we celebrate Corpus Christi, let us thank God for this gift. Let us receive the Eucharist with reverence and gratitude.
May the Body and Blood of Christ strengthen us, unite us, and transform us, so that our lives may become a visible sign of His love in the world.