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The Spiritual discipline of Lectio Divina, Gospel Contemplation, and the Examine will be explored at this workshop and is ideal for young layministers and youth leaders. Venue: St. Francis - Walkerville Times: 8:30 - 4:00 pm Cost: R20:00 (Bring your own lunch)

Dear People of God

I am writing this in Holy Week, knowing that it will almost certainly reach most of you after Easter Sunday. This underlines to me the constant presence with us of both death and life, of both sorrow and hope.

Rarely a week passes in Bishopscourt without our receiving news of the death or serious illness of a member of the clergy or their immediate family, whom we then remember in Bishopscourt Chapel in our daily services of Morning and Evening Prayer and the Eucharist. Recently we mourned the death of Sarah Breytenbach, wife of Bishop Martin of the Diocese of Christ the King – to whom and to whose family we extend our condolences. I was privileged to participate in Sarah’s funeral, where we not only grieved her passing, but gave thanks for her life – a life she lived ‘with abundance’ even through the years of her cancer, in which she had a remarkable ministry to so many people.

By Bishop Peter Lee Wednesday 21 May 2008. We wake at 05:00 as usual because Gill has to get on the highway before 06:00 if she is to reach school in time to teach. People do not always understand that Johannesburg is a busy place. The province of Gauteng which is geographically the smallest of South Africa’s nine new provinces, is also the most densely populated with about a quarter of South Africa’s population and large numbers of immigrants from other places crowding it. This province contains 2 of South Africa 4 major cities – Johannesburg and Pretoria – and generates no less than 30% of the Gross Domestic Product not of South Africa – but of the entire African continent! It is a rich city which of course attracts large numbers of the poor. It is big, busy, aggressive, dynamic and stimulating unless you get tired. The needs for ministry are enormous and new housing areas have burgeoned all around these cities in the past twenty years creating massive demands for employment, housing, health services, schools, water and drainage especially in a city which sits at 6 thousand feet and therefore has to pump most of its water back up the hill from which it has drained away when it rains.