The year 2018 saw the end of the renovations of our “Little Flower” chapel which we started in November 2017. Our beautiful chapel is now 90 years’ old and looks beautiful.
In the Catholic Church, we respect the ashes of those who have been cremated in the same way we do when we bury their bodies.
Next to the chapel, then, something new has been added: a wall of remembrance. It is the first in our diocese! Around the statue of Our Lady who was already there, a place for the conservation of ashes of our deceased brothers and sisters has been built.
“When, for legitimate motives, cremation of the body has been chosen, the ashes of the faithful must be laid to rest in a sacred place, that is, in a cemetery or, in certain cases, in a church or an area, which has been set aside for this purpose, and so dedicated by the competent ecclesial authority.”
I am grateful to the community of Our Lady of Assumption (Cathedral) who presented this need to me a few years’ ago. Grateful also to Fr Joseph Nguyen SDB and all those who helped us make the place a prayerful and beautiful place.
Those in our diocese wishing to place ashes of a Catholic relative at “Our Lady of Hope, Wall of remembrance” should contact Fr Sakhile Peter Ndwandwe at the Diocesan Chancery.
Eternal rest grant them O Lord…
