SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
INTRODUCTION:
In the early church, the Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation were given together during Easter. Why? Baptism and Confirmation belong together as Easter and Pentecost belong together. Therefore it became customary in the early church to lay hands on the newly baptized and to ask for the power of the Holy Spirit to come down upon them. It is through the Holy Spirit that Jesus lives in us and us in him. In today’s Gospel reading Jesus tells us, “On that day you will understand that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you.”
GOSPEL: JOHN 14: 15 – 21
Jesus said to his disciples: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept because it neither sees nor knows him. But you know him, because he remains with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me because I live and you will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”
SOUTHERN CROSS MAGAZINE
May issue now available at the Parish Office.
NOVENA OF THE HOLY SPIRT
Will start on Friday 19 May at Regina Pacis @ 17:30. We will pray the novena every day from 17:30 until the Day of the Pentecost. On Saturdays, the novena will be at @17:00 before Mass. and on Sunday at @17:30.
NB There will be no Mass at St Jude on Friday the 19th of May.
FR MAREK HOLIDAY
There will be a second collection for the next two weekends for Fr Marek’s Holiday as he will going to visit his family in June, please give generously.
DONATIONS FOR ALTAR FLOWERS
Donations are requested for altar flowers – box at the back of the church.
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY
“She is clothed in strength and dignity;
she can laugh at the days to come.
She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.” proverbs 31:25-26
POPE’S PRAYER INTENTION FOR MAY:
FOR CHURCH MOVEMENTS AND GROUPS
We pray that Church movements and groups may rediscover their mission of evangelization each day, placing their own charisms at the service of needs in the world.
SICK & ELDERLY
Please pray for the sick & elderly of the parish, family & friends especially:
Fr John–Allen Green OFM, Nokuthula Kubheka, Penny Powell, Jean Smith, Dolly Bimbrish, Simon Zulu, Alvin Govender, Siva Naidoo & Mavis Makhubo.
