Author: Toni Rowland

June 27. “Is bullying more of an issue in high school or in the younger years?”  Mrs Petzer asked her teenage children. Some responded, “It takes different forms at different ages and can also be more psychologically subtle...

June 26..   Deacon Samuel started a challenging discussion with the confirmation group and their parents at a combined session he had set up.  “Does the fact that there are so many protests around problems in education mean that...

June 25.  12th Sunday. Fr Fidelis  preached especially to the youth, as so many of whom seemed to see Confirmation as a church-leaving certificate.  “Have you had a genuine encounter with Jesus as Pope Francis so...

June 24. Birth of John the Baptist “JB is one of my favourite saints,” Alan said, “He was a specially chosen person, to begin a new era in salvation history as we heard in Luke’s gospel and his birth was quite unusual as his...

June 23.  The parents in the Sacred Heart sodality discussed.  “I think that devotion to the Sacred Heart is an earlier form of the Divine Mercy devotion.  It is essentially about Jesus’ love, but also about his heart that was...