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UPDATE JULY 2025 

There Is a new pop song on the web. A very young blind boy was singing it beautifully and, strangely, it had only one line which was repeated over and over. The fact that it was being sung by a blind child, made it even more telling:  

“Open the eyes of my heart Lord, I want to see you.”

It could have seemed boring to hear the same words over and over, but the composer might have done that deliberately, to make us think!  In John 14 verse 8 – 9 Philip asks the Lord: “Lord show us the Father, then we shall be satisfied. Jesus replied: Philip, have I been with you all this time and STILL you do not know me?” Very, very thought-provoking words…  Open the eyes of my heart Lord…

As stated in our last update: blessings come all the time, but we are so brain-washed and bombarded by mass media, that we can get disillusioned by all the negatives  and overlook the many blessings. 

In this update, we once again offer our readers and benefactors encouragement and incentives to focus also on the good. Don’t forget:   It is no co-incidence that, before he died, our Holy Father Pope Francis declared 2025 as a YEAR OF HOPE. Let us try to make this our vision, even though there are plenty of negative things to cloud our view.   Open the eyes of our hearts Lord, that we may see you…                                                   

Diana Beamish

Velderine, Grace, Ildevert, Princess and Manasse Mienanzambie were born in Congo.  Their father worked for the army and they lived
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Every Saturday morning we have extra lessons for our school children. For this we thank Innocentia, a South African teacher,
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Easter was special because one of our school boys, Ivan Irakoze, was received into the church at the Easter vigil
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Ivan was also one of 4 young people, all from different countries, who presented the Way of the Cross on
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Two weeks before Easter we held our second Get-Away weekend of spiritual renewal at Maria Trost, Comboni Mission in Lydenburg.
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On March 21st, we welcomed the new Comboni provincial, Father Jude Burgers, to Mercy House. He offered up Holy Mass
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At the end of March, Nozizwe, one of our very active co-workers, took Zeng and Moise to an international weekend
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On 27th July this year our beloved Sister Fidelis celebrates her 90th birthday. Sister was a most devoted and faithful
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We are continuing our Saturday morning extra lessons for any refugee scholars who need it.  It is becoming known and
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