March 2025

Reflection for Sunday 16 March 2025 – Lent II – by Br Aelred

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May the words of my mouth and the meditations of all our hearts be acceptable in Your sight, our strength and our redeemer. Amen.

Lent 2025: another opportunity for deep reflection and for strengthening our relationship with Almighty God. Another desert journey to make right with Almighty God, where we have wronged, sinned, hurt or offended His loving heart.

In our gospel passage today, we find our Lord Jesus being warned by the Pharisees that he should leave — flee — for Herod wants to kill Him. Now we might wonder, why the Pharisees? Was the warning sincere or was it part of their scheme to get Jesus away, out of their territory? Whatever the reason may have been, Jesus’ response is declaring His mission, that He is not going anywhere, He is there to heal, to cure and to restore.

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January/February 2025 News – Initial Profession of Br Mpumelelo Khambule OHC

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Br Robert James, the Superior of our Order, arrived from the USA in the second half of January to spend a few weeks with our monastic community. Some of his time with us involved his official annual visitation, during which he met individually with all members of the community and then together with the whole community, to discuss our current situation and future possibilities.

The highlight of a relatively eventful month was surely the Initial Profession of the Monastic Vow by our Br Mpumelelo, on Saturday 1 February. Although Br Mpumelelo’s family were unable to attend, we were very happy to have four Sisters from the Community of Jesus’ Compassion in KZN with us for this joyful occasion. It was also good to have Max, an Associate of Holy Cross, and his wife Ellen, with us from Canada, having been visiting family in Cape Town.

Br Robert James preached and received Br Mpumelelo’s vow. The text of Br Robert’s sermon can be found here. We give thanks to God that all three of our novice monks have now persisted to profession, as we continue to appreciate the various ways in which they have enriched our community life and witness through their presence.

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Lent 1C – Sunday 9 March 2025 – Sermon by Br Daniel

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Who am I?

This seems to be one of the most consuming questions of the ages, especially of our age, where identity seems to be such a labile and questionable thing.

We live in an age where we are inundated with all kinds of self-help books that are guaranteed to help us find ourselves, our identities, until we don’t, and then just find ourselves even more lost. And I think this is probably one of the main lessons in today’s Gospel reading. Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, shows us who he is and who we are: beloved children of God. And, as importantly, that we are worthy of that love.

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Sermon for the Last Sunday after Epiphany

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And so, we come to the last Sunday of the Season of Epiphany, during which we have considered the various ways in which Jesus is made manifest through the Scriptures as the Christ, the One sent from God to save us from our sins. In the verses preceding the gospel passage we read together this morning, Jesus has been at prayer with his disciples, who have recognized that he is indeed the Christ of God. Now, he is at prayer again, on a mountain top, and the select three who are with him see and hear the glory of God in and around him, surely confirming their earlier recognition.

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Sermon for Thursday 27 February by Br Mpumelelo

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Scripture Readings:
— Sirach 5:1-8
— Psalm 1
— Mark 9:42-50

Let us pray: Make us to know Your Ways, O LORD JESUS CHRIST; teach us Your Paths. Lead us in Your Truth, and teach us, for You are the GOD of our Salvation; for You we wait all day long. Amen.

Today’s Gospel lesson is about three things: the importance of humility, self-awareness and living a life that is pleasing to GOD The ALMIGHTY.

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