Oudtshoorn, 19 October 2024 – This morning the Catholic Hour volunteer team gathered at the Oratory of St Philip Neri in Oudtshoorn to say goodbye to the outgoing chaplain, Fr Quiwin and welcome to the group Fr Vernon, their new chaplain.
The team used the opportunity to plan out the programme schedule for the coming quarter ending January 2025 and reflected on how they can best continue to be bearers of the Good News of Jesus Christ through radio.
Back L – R: Fr Vernon & JP
Middle L – R: Renier, Fr Quiwin & Larry
ront L – R: Olwen & Juanita
The team started by recomitting themselves to their shared radio-apostalate and the wider social media apostolate available to them as a tool for evangelisation.
The commitment prayer follows below:
Most Gracious Heavenly Father,
Thank you for the gift of radio, internet and social media platforms
through which we can create, communicate, learn, and glorify you.
I thank you for the ways you have blessed our world with these tools
and I praise you for giving me the gifts of creativity and work.
Through radio, internet and social media,
may I spread the Gospel message and proclaim the glories of Christ
and so doing, reach many in this generation with the saving message of Christ.
I pray that you would help me to avoid technology’s
unintended consequences like idolizing gadgets, using gadgets to feed other idols in my life,
or to keep me from relating to others you have called me to love.
I humbly ask for you to grant me the right desires
not to build my own kingdom on these platforms,
but to build yours as I embrace my Christian calling.
May my speech build others up and point them to Jesus, our Savior,
testifying always to his grace and truth and may my eyes be fixed on eternity
remembering that life is a vapor and that eternal life is found in Jesus Christ.
May my heart’s cry be to glorify you and proclaim Jesus Christ
through every broadcast, message, tweet, or blog post I do or make.
In all things, may Christ become greater and may I become less.
Saint Gabriel, Archangel, bearer of joyous news, pray for us
and for this specific radio apostolate that we
have been entrusted with and commit to undertake. Amen.
Mary, Mother and Queen of the Apostles, pray for us;
St Paul the Apostle, pray for us;
St John Chrysostom with the Golden Mouth, pray for us;
Blessed Carlo Acutis, pray for us.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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