12. Towards the Year 2000 and Beyond
Sacred Heart Parish has celebrated 70 years of faith and life.
We remember its humble beginnings in 1924 and the heroic faith and witness of its people in the suffering years under apartheid. The Comboni Missionaries have left Witbank but the Seed of God's Word has taken root and has spread far and wide beyond the expectations of the early missionaries. It is now a time for truth and reconciliation, a time for nation building, a time for discovering afresh the many unexplored gifts of God's people in Emalahleni/Witbank. It is a time for the Catholics of EMalahleni, both Black and White, to see the face of Christ in one another. But above all it is a time for us to clean each other's wounds and to seek from God the miracle of healing. We pray for this miracle as we look towards the year 2000 and beyond, and remember the birth of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - the Fountain of all healing - through whom all glory and power is given to our merciful Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit.
Priests in charge as from 1997
(dates need to be confirmed)
Fr Linda Protas Zwane 1997 - 2000
Fr Francis Muhenda 2000 - 2002
Fr. Molewe Machingoane 2002 - 2005
Fr Joao Rodrigues 2005 -2009
New Parish Hall built � Millennium Hall �blessed and
New Parish House for priests blessed by Bishop Khumalo 9 June 2002.
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