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Cathedral Place 3 Saratoga Avenue Doornfontein Johannesburg, 2198 Republic of South Africa |
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Dear Bishop.
It is with absolute shock that we have to raise an amount of R50 million rand to build new offices. Who has that kind of money. so many parishes are in financial problems and here you want us to raise millions of rands. Bishop I think that your advises have advised you wrong.
Why would you want to build premises at the Cathedral, in that part of town for millions (consider ) when you can buy an office block in Bedfordview which has easy access from all highways, good public transport and is very central, for less than 10 million rand, have you considered that there are also office space in Killarney, Rosebank, Melrose and Sandton. All these are within drive from your house in Saxonwold.
I think that you must reconsider, seriously. I have spoken to a number of parishoners and they are just as upset as I am regarding the wasting of our hard earned money.
We are aware that your offices are getting small, but consider the safety aspect of Doornfonein, how safe will the million dollar office be. What happens when we have High mass and have to park.
Do you want the new offices to become a white elephant?
Please reconsider a safer and less exspensive area.
Yours inanticipation
Concerned Parisherners.
j. malinga
-- john malinga on June 04, 2010 07:45 AM (view details)
i would like also to agree with Mr Malinga that the 50M is very huge amount. I also feel that with the current project of the Sacred Heart in Walikerville a lot of money is requested at the same time. My view will be that we do one project at a time. I also learnt with great disappointment the selling of the Oblates Pre Novitiate while I agree with the reasons i strongly feel that place could be utilised for a project that could have benefitted the Arch Diocese a skills development centre, theological centre or a conference centre that would have generated money. I hope the Arch Bishop takes into account that in a number of parishes there is work going on eg building parish houses/ exstension of parishes.
My other point is that of consulatation I think before we embark on major projects as catholics we should be consulted or at least a task team be set up to look at possible avenues that can be looked into.
In Communion with Christ.
-- thabo thipe on July 27, 2010 12:47 PM (view details)
I want to commend our Arch Bishop and the entire clergy on the great work they are doing.I also wish to humbly draw their attention to the spiritual and physical problems of the laity.It always sadden my heart to notice that we the clergy are not living our lives like pratising catholics by living our lives by the dictates of the society we find ourself in.Atimes I will enter the church to find a baby with a sangoma robe tied around his or her mother for protection,even the rate of immorality among us the laity.
The rate of unemployment and hardship has driven our parishioners to patronise ministry outside the faith looking for breakthrough and prosperity.I humbly think that the catholic INSTITUTES,like catholic schools and hospitals should try to employ certain number of QUALIFIED catholics as their staff to help catholics and also to teach and preach the catholic faith and ethos.It is bad to see QUALIFIED catholics not working in our INSTITUTES and we still expect these unemployed ones to help in developing our arch diocese and parishes.
one in Christ
Anastasia
-- Anastasia Amadi on August 25, 2010 02:47 PM (view details)
in the previous observation i was writing about the LAITY,and not the clergy.
tanx
-- Anastasia Amadi on August 30, 2010 01:48 PM (view details)