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The Western Cape Commandery of the Grand Bailiwick of South Africa recently raised a substantially larger amount of much needed funding for its designated beneficiaries - an orphanage and a shelter for terminally ill indigent elderly folk in one of the country’s poorest communities – than has ever been achieved at a single Commandery event before.
For the third year in a row and working in partnership with the Cape Town Burns Supper Club, members of the Commandery used social media and personal selling of raffle tickets before and at the event to support an auction at the Dinner.
Feast of St Paul's Shipwreck
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The Grand Priory of the Maltese Islands celebrated the feast of St Paul's Shipwreck. The Grand Priory organised a Holy mass at the Sanctuary of St. Paul Shipwreck at St. Pauls Bay. According to tradition, the site of the sanctuary is located where a bonfire was lit to keep the stranded survivors warm after the wreck, and where St Paul was consequently bitten, and remained unaffected, by a venomous snake. The mass was celebrated by Senior Chaplain Father Thomas Moore and a good number of members from the Grand Priory had participated. The account of Paul’s shipwreck and three-month, wintertime stay on Malta is found in the Bible’s Acts 27:27 through 28:11, giving a very detailed account of the story which makes Malta as one of the oldest Christian communities in the world.
Advent message 2018
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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Saint Lazarus,
While we prepare to celebrate Christmas and remember the coming of Jesus, the only Saviour of the world, Advent helps us create a mood for the arrival of salvation, a conveyor for consolation full of lasting happiness.
During these difficult times in which we live, with an uncertainty about the future, full of restlessness in the face of widespread social insecurity, we need Christ to fulfill the many expectations of justice, before the Lord. He will judge us by the love we show to others, and we cannot live a frantic and banal life full of dissipations that distract us and fill us with alienating evasions, of sterile actions and useless discussions.
ACN Fundraising Dinner
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On the evening of Friday 16th November 2018 the Cardiff Oratory and the Order of St Lazarus, Commandery of Wales, co-hosted a fundraising dinner at Newman Hall for the Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Syrian Christian Refugee Appeal. During preprandial drinks in the Newman Hall library Dr Alex McAuley, a Classicist and Lecturer in Hellensitic History & Director of International Affairs at the School of History, Archaeology, and Religion at Cardiff University, delivered a fascinating illustrated lecture entitled ‘Syria Yesterday and Today’.