St. Mary's Cathedral, Kimberley

06/03/2021

LIFETEEN - CONFIRMATION OF CANDIDATES FROM 2020

Dear Parents

The following process will be undertaken to confirm the candidates for 2020.

The first group will be the candidates who registered at the beginning of 2020 for confirmation. According to our records there are approximately 18 candidates for 2020. These, and only these 18 candidates, will commence classes on Friday, 5 March. Classes will start with Mass at 5.30pm in the Hall. Due to the Covid restrictions, stipulating that only 100 people are allowed in the Church, the confirmundi will view the 5.30pm Mass on the projector screen, using the Zoom application, in the Hall. They will go through the side door for communion and then return to the hall for the lesson starting at 6pm. We will end at 7pm. Parents are urged to please collect all candidates promptly at 7pm.

CONFIRMATION DATE: 23 MAY 2021 at 9am Mass.

We will arrange logistics with the parents and sponsors of the candidates on 9 April 2021. Please bring copies of Baptism certificates of all candidates by Friday, 26 March 2021.

CANDIDATES PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL HAVE COLLECTION EVERY FRIDAY FOR THE PARISH SO PLEASE BRING ANY CHANGE YOU HAVE.

Sanitisers will be available. Your temperature will be taken and you will be screened before entering. Please be at the Hall by 5:20pm every Friday.

Candidates for Confirmation 2021:

We will commence lessons for the candidates for 2021 in July 2021 with the registered numbers as at January 2020. Only those candidates will attend classes in the Hall at St. Mary’s Cathedral. I will send out a roster of lesson days and procedures in the newsletter for March 26, 2021.

Thank you and God Bless.

Fabian Borman

CORE Member and Team Leader.

06/03/2021

PPC MEETING FEEDBACK

The following was agreed at the Parish Pastoral Council's meeting held on Thursday 25th February:
Catechism - see separate post.
Lifeteen - see separate post.
The following masses will be held on a first come first serve basis with a maximum of 100 parishioners per mass (level 1 lock-down). All masses count for a Sunday mass obligation. Doors open half an hour before each service. Collection will be offered for each mass at the entrance to the church. Please also remember to take some Lenten appeal envelopes to add this to the collection plate the next time you come for mass:
Wednesday 5.30pm
Friday 5.30pm (after Stations of the Cross at 5pm)
Sunday 9am Cathedral + Zoom
Sunday 11am St Augustine's + Facebook Live stream

Baptisms will only occur at Easter - contact Father Victor ASAP to make arrangements.

Father Victor will continue with booked home masses on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Contact Father Victor directly on his cell 0827679595.

06/03/2021

CATECHISM UPDATE

Dear Parents

We resumed First Communion classes from Monday 15 Feb 2021 at 4.30pm to 5.30pm.

ONLY those children who were registered and paid their registration fee in 2020 will be making their sacrament on Sunday 6 June 2021.

First Confession classes will resume on 12 April 2021.

ONLY those children who were registered and paid their registration fee in 2020 will be receiving this sacrament on Saturday 29 May 2021.

PLEASE NOTE that the first group of classes (for children who registered in 2020) will run from February to June 2021.

In July we will register the next group of children (for 2021) and these classes will run from July to November 2021. Hopefully, by then, we will have managed to bring our classes back on track.

It is vitally important that you assist your child as we need to get as much work done as possible in a very short space of time.

The Catechism Teachers

03/03/2021

It is with great joy to welcome Bishop Duncan Theodore Tsoke as the new Shepperd of our Diocese.

19/02/2021

Stations of the Cross

17/02/2021

13/02/2021

10/02/2021

South African Ambassador to the Holy See, Mr George Johannes.

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South Africa’s Ambassador to the Holy See shares his impressions of the Pope’s annual audience with the diplomatic corps in the Vatican.