13^th August 2008

Greetings from Fr. Joe

----- This may be good for you and your family

 A holy man was having a conversation  with the Lord one day and said.
 'Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.
 The Lord led the holy man to two doors.

 He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the 
 middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the 
 table was a large pot of stew, which smelled delicious and made 
 the holy man's mouth water. The people sitting around the table 
 were thin and sickly. They appeared to
be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles that 
 were strapped to their arms and each found it possible to reach 
 into the pot of stew and take a spoonful. But because the handle 
was longer than their arms, they could not get the
spoons back into their mouths.
 The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering.
 The Lord said, 'You have seen Hell.

 They went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the 
same as the first one. There was the large round table with the 
large pot of stew which made the holy man's mouth water. The 
 people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons, but here
 the people were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking. 
 The holy man said, 'I don't understand.' 'It is simple,' said the 
 Lord. 'It requires but one skill. You see, they have learned to 
 feed each other, while the greedy think only of themselves.' When Jesus died 
 on the cross, He was thinking of you. It's estimated 93% won't 
forward this. If you are one of the 7% who will, forward this with 
the title '7%'. I'm in the 7%
Remember that I will always share my spoon with you.

Dear fellow Pilgrim in the resurrected Lord,


I greet you in the Lord’s name. I hope you are still enjoying life in Jesus.

I am all right. Here it is autumn. We are experiencing a feeling of the coming winter cold.

This year is bringing us special joys one after another. We had the consecration of our New Bishop on the 24th of February.

This is the time of the year once again we have to feel that joy of new life in our places of work, in our homes and also in our hearts. I do wish you all the best and wish you the joy of Easter. I do thank you for all the prayers and the support that you have been offering to your friends and family. I do ask and pray for you to have courage that you need to be able to witness to the world in whatever you will be doing.


Back to us I have just been in two Mass of Holy Thursday that is the washing of the feet, and the institution of the Holy Eucharist. . What was moving is that during Mass we had to wash each others feet? Therefore the all congregation hard that opportunity to experience that joy. Then tomorrow is the Good Friday where we shall stat at around 9 a.m we shall move with the cross from House to House until we shall go to the 14 homes. Then we read the passion and then seven people will preach or share on the seven words of Jesus on then cross before he dead.


I do hope that this gives you some of the things that we do in our liturgy at this time.
I wish you the riches of blessings for this Triduum and Easter plus the following Easter-time. I just hope and wish you all the best of the at this coming Easter time.


I keep you close in my heart and prayers.


Yours truly loving, brother Fr Joe in South Africa