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The Triduum of consecration
We called what happened last weekend in Merrivale , The Triduum. First Profession on Friday 6th September 201., Final Profession on Saturday 7th and Diaconate ordination on Sunday the 8th. Friday evening saw brothers Yohane, Blessings and Maurice make their first...
Solemn Profession and Diaconate Ordination September 2018
Solemn Profession and Diaconate Ordination September 2018 On 28 September 2018, Our Delegature was blessed with 4 confreres that made their solemn consecration in the Society. The Provincial Fr Helmut Scharler was the main celebrant in this noble event. In his homily...
CLOSING AND OPENING OF NOVITIATE 2018
After a successful Year, our Novitiate closed on 21 July 2018 with our 9 Novices intact. It has been a grateful year with the new Novice Master Fr John Mangwele SAC. We thank God for the completed year and for the grace he gave to them. Another year of Novitiate...
DELEGATURE ASSEMBLY 2018
Our Annual Assembly this year was from 3 to 5 July 2018. It was a very cold period in Queenstown and especially in Pallotti Farm. The conferees in the farm tried to keep us as warm as they can with gas heaters and the rest of the warmth came from the joy of being...
Fr Johannes Rankel SAC RIP
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19 In the Frail Care Section of the Mission House in Limburg, in the late afternoon of 12 January 2018, the staff were taken by...
Opening of Novitiate 2017
OPENINING OF NOVITIATE 2017/2018 On 1 August 2017 our canonical novitiate was re-opened in Pallotti Farm, Queenstown, after 3 years of suspension of this venue for canonical novitiate. It was a graceful event which was attended by a number of confreres in...
60 Years a Pallottine – Regina Apostolorum Pallotti Farm
On 6th June 2017 as members of the Delegature we all gathered together in Pallotti Farm to celebrate. It was a very heart-warming celebration. We celebrated the Regina Apostolorum (Queen of Apostles) which is a feast very dear to the heart of Pallotti, who said that...
Good Shepherd Kitchen: Our Beloved Project
Good Shepherd soup kitchen service was started in 2006 by Brother Herman Michels SAC. He used his personal funding and the help from his benefactors in Germany to feed 300 children in Thembalethu; a poverty stricken location of George in South Africa. A place marked...
The St Joseph Delegature 2016 – 2017
St Jospehs’ Delegature is part of Heart of Jesus Province Germany/Austra. Our Delegature is in South Africa. During this time in our Delegature we are 20 final professed, 10 temporal professed and 5 going for Novitiate. We have 2 from South Africa who started...
50 years in South Africa!
On a Monday morning, the 26th of September 1962, the “Pendennis”, a well-known mail boat of the Union Castle Line, docked in Cape Town harbour with five Pallottine missionaries on board. They were the Fathers Franz Baumann, Karl Frings and Rudolf Köble together with...
Rest in Peace – Fr Ludwig Brunner
The 77 years old Fr. Brunner was born in Germany on the 24th of August 1939. From an early age he had expressed his desire to become a servant of the Lord in his vineyard. After basic schooling, he acquired a qualification as an electrician at the same time, he joined...