MENTAL HEALTH MINISTRY: PROVIDING HOPE AND HEALING
The colours symbolise peace and nature, the brain represents the mind and the hands imply care—thus giving the impression of ‘the mind in caring hands.’ (Lauren Bikhani, Mental Health Ministry Coordinator at All Saints Catholic Church, Ennerdale, Johannesburg).
Design by Warren Singh from DesignCreed.
MISSION IS FUN
A CLEVER DEVICE
BY FR ANTONY MKHARI MCCJ
I COME from a village neighbouring Manyeleti Game Reserve, Mpumalanga. Many wild animals, among them elephants, frequent the fence which separates our village from the Game Park. As children we used to enjoy eating elephant meat. Intelligent as these herbivores are, the villagers managed to play a trick on them.
Everybody knew that elephants love watermelons, so the neighbours devised the strategy of planting seeds of these Cucurbitaceae shrubs along our side of the fence. As the elephants were desperate to eat these fruits, they would tear the fence down in order to get to them.
According to Game Reserve regulations, once an elephant trespasses the boundaries of the park, it must be culled, otherwise it will call the rest of the herd to join him or her in enjoying the bounty. This posed the ideal opportunity for the whole village to feast on this delicious meat!
A SUNDAY IN ST. HUBERT’S
FR JORGE was invited to preside over the various Eucharistic celebrations on a Sunday in the parish of St Hubert’s, Alexandra, a township North of Johannesburg.