Cabra Dominican Vocations - Mission Area of South Africa

16/06/2026

16th June

South Africa observes Youth Day on June 16, marking the 50th anniversary of the historic 1976 Soweto Uprising. It commemorates the thousands of students who bravely marched against the apartheid regime’s oppressive educational policies, sparking a turning point in the country's liberation struggle.

History of the Day

The Uprising: On June 16, 1976, thousands of black students protested the government's mandate to impose Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in schools.

The Tragedy:
What began as a peaceful demonstration was met with brutal police force. Hundreds of students, including young victims like Hector Pieterson, were killed.

The Impact:
Their courageous sacrifice brought international attention to the brutality of apartheid and inspired mass resistance across the country. Post-apartheid, this day was officially declared a national holiday in 1994.

13/06/2026

The Immaculate Heart of Mary is a prominent Catholic devotion that honors the interior life, virtues, and profound maternal love of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It signifies her perfect purity, her unconditional love for God, and her compassionate care for all of humanity.

Happy feast day of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

06/06/2026

A Prayer for Vocations by St John Paul II:
Lord Jesus, as once you called the first disciples and made them fishers of men, continue to let resound today Your sweet invitation: “Come and follow me.”
Grant to men and women in our day the grace and trust to respond to Your voice.
Sustain our bishops, priests and consecrated souls in their apostolic work.
Give perseverance to our seminarians and to all those living a life of total consecration to Your service.
Enkindle in our communities a missionary zeal.
Send, Lord, workers into Your fields to feed and guide Your flock as Good Shepherds in imitation of You.
Mary, Mother of the Church, Model of Vocations, help us to say “Yes” to the Lord who calls each one of us to play our part in His plan of salvation. Amen.

06/06/2026

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06/06/2026

"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching".
(St Francis of Assisi)

05/06/2026

Big thanks to Bev Carew

for all of your support! Congrats for being top fans on a streak 🔥!

05/06/2026

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Today is World Environment Day. We give God thanks for the wonders of His creation.

04/06/2026

4th June
Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the Eternal High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek

Second Tursday after Pentecost

In him the Father has been well pleased from before all time. As Mediator between God and human beings, fulfilleling his Father’s will, he sacrificed himsel once on the altar of the Cross as a saving Victim of the whole world. Thus, instituting the pattern of an everlasting sacrifice, with a brother’s kindness he chose, from among the children of Adam, men to augment the priesthood, so that, from the sacrifice continually renewed in the Church, streams of divine power might flow, whereby a new heaven and a new earth might be made, and throughout the whole universe there would be perfected what no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor has entered into the human heart.

04/06/2026