Le ke lengwalo le monate.
Pelo ya ka e thabile ga ke lebala.
Translation: This letter (the Bible) contains the Good News. My heart is overcome with joy when I read the Good News
Le ke lengolo le monate
Hymn book: Lifela tsa Bakriste (Sefela 4), Difela tsa Bakriste,
Priestly Ordination of Fr Welcome Maluleka
Date: 22 July 2017
Venue: Mater Dei Pastoral Centre
Training & Education:
St. John Vianney Seminary NPC (Registered as a Non-Profit Company and Public Benefit Organisation) is an institution of the Catholic Church in South Africa which provides for the education and training for ministers of the Catholic Church, in particular diocesan priests.
St John Vianney Seminary NPC is both a training facility and a house of formation. As a training facility, it is registered with the Department of Education through the Council for Higher Education
As a house of formation, St John Vianney Seminary NPC provides for the human growth and development of students in the spiritual, pastoral and communal spheres.
Diocese of Polokwane
Province of Pretoria
Patron: St Benedict
Right Reverend
BISHOP JEREMIAH MADIMETJA MASELA
Appointed Bishop on 10th June 2013 and ordained Bishop on 07th September 2013
Coat of Arms and Motto
Do this in memory of me
Predecessors
1. Rt. Rev Abbot/Bishop Frederic Osterrath, OSB, appointed 14 November 1939,
resigned 1952
2. Rt. Rev Abbot/Bishop F C Van Hoeck, OSB, appointed 6 January 1954, resigned 3
December 1974 and died 20 April 1976.
3. Rt. Rev Bishop Fulgence Le Roy OSB, Elected Abbot 18 December 1974, he was
appointed Apostolic Administrator on the 17 January 1975 and Abbot Nullius and Bishop of Ausafa 10 July 1975 and consecrated 14 September 1975. Appointed first Bishop of Polokwane 15 December 1988. Retired 4thJune 2000.
4. Rt. Rev. Bishop Mogale Paul Nkhumishe, was appointed Auxiliary Bishop on the 5th November 1981, consecrated on the 14th February 1982, appointed Apostolic Administrator on the 25th February 1983 and Bishop of Witbank Diocese on the 9th of January 1984. Transferred and installed as Bishop of Polokwane on the 04th of June 2000. Retired on the 09th December 2011 and died on the 29th June 2012.
History of the Diocese
The Northern Transvaal was erected a Prefecture by Decree of The Sacred Congregation for Propagation of Faith on 22 December 1910. The Rev Fr D Ildefons Lanslots, OSB was appointed first Prefect Apostolic. He resigned in 1921, and was succeeded by the Rt. Rev D Salvator van Nuffel, OSB, who resigned in 1939. By further decree on 13 June 1939, the Prefecture Apostolic of the Northern Transvaal was raised to the dignity of an Abbey Nullius, followed by the Decree of 14 November 1939 that announced the appointment by the Holy Father of the Very Rev D Frederic Osterrath, OSB, as first Abbot and Titular Bishop of Tangiers in Mauritania. He resigned in 1952. Polokwane became a Diocese on 21 December 1988. It comprises the districts of Polokwane, Mokopane, Waterberg, Bela- bela, Lephalale, Bochum, Mankweng, Mokerong, Seshego, Thabamoopo and part of Moretele.
Postal Address:
PO Box 166, Polokwane 0700
Tel: 015 295 8152 / 56
Fax: 015 295 8152 / 56
Email: dioceseofplk@gmail.com
Source: SACBC Website
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Liturgy of the Word, the first of the two principal rites of the mass, the central act of worship of the Roman Catholic Church, the second being the liturgy of the Eucharist.
Lifela tsa Bakriste, Difela tsa Bakriste
“Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.” -Charles Spurgeon
“We are the Bibles the world is reading; we are the creeds the world is needing; we are the sermons the world is heeding.” -Billy Graham
“We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.” -Timothy J. Keller
“It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so he could create this galaxy just so he could create Earth so he could create human beings so he could create a family.” Rick Warren
“He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).” Ann Voskamp
