Ash Wednesday, 14 February 2018 Ash Wednesday is one of the most popular and important holy days in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. Ash Wednesday opens Lent, a season of fasting and prayer , in our preparation for Easter. God in his providence offers us each year the season of Lent as […]
In His work of healing, Jesus gives us an indication of His mission – namely the salvation of all. Already, we saw this yesterday with the healing of the daughter of the Syrophoenician woman. Today, with joyful spontaneity the cured man forgets the restriction not to tell anyone and announces the good news of what […]
From our gospel passage we read a Syrophoenician woman with exceptional qualities of faith, persistence and humility which moved Jesus to grant her appeal. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He replied, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and […]
Rev. Fr. Charles Tembo, today 6th February 2018 buried in Chililiabombwe, his young brother Emmanuel Tembo, who passed away on saturady 3rd February 2018 after battling with an illness. The last born in a family of 13 children, was born on the 23th of September, 1986. He lives behind a wife and 3 children. The […]
Food is one of the basic needs of mankind. It is the most fundamental need of all creatures. Due to its importance, it has its own decorum. In our cultural set up to share a meal has a deeper meaning than what meets the eye. That is the more reason why one would only eat […]
VACANCY OF THE EPISCOPAL SEE BECAUSE OF THE TRANSFER OF THE DIOCESAN BISHOP: A note on some of its administrative implications within the Diocese. INTRODUCTION On 30th January 2018 the Apostolic Nunciature in Zambia intimated to His […]