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52 young people gathered at the Bosco Youth Centre in Walkerville for a weekend camp – the first ever organised by a team from Radio Veritas. The theme of the camp was the Year of Faith and the young people explored the implications of their faith in today’s world. Some came from as far away as Parys and Stilfontein all of whom heard about the camp on Radio Veritas.

The first evening was devoted to getting to know each other and ended with a pilgrimage praying the rosary to the top of the local hill where there is an illuminated cross. On Saturday, after morning exercises, they gathered to work together in groups on a war cry illustrating that working together is very much part of Christian life. This was also great fun. Later there was a sort of ‘amazing race’ which captured the imagination of people and all learnt about Christian virtues in a very practical way. Throughout the day the group was exposed to different practical explorations into their faith. On Saturday evening everyone had the opportunity of experiencing the sacrament of reconciliation and healing.

The climax of the weekend was a mass on Sunday afternoon which was attended by almost 500 young people who came from all over the diocese to celebrate Youth Day. There were nine priests concelebrating and the lively and relevant homily was preached by the dynamic Fr George Njonge of Dobsonville.

This was a totally absorbing weekend and the hope is that this will be repeated each year. Congratulations to the organising team which really excelled in putting this together.

So far about 1000 tickets for the competition have been sold. The prize is a trip to the Holy Land with Fr Emil in October (R24 000) PLUS R5 000 cash. We are grateful to Roy Muchatu who helped in running with the competition . Sadly he found alternative employment and had to leave us. The work is now being co-ordinated by Tiiso Mosoeu. Tickets can be bought at R200 by sending an SMS to 41809, then adding the age of Pope Francis and your name. You will receive back an SMS indicating the bank account details. Then send a fax to 011 452 7625 confirming your deposit and your name will go into the draw on July 31. For more details contact Tiiso at 011 663 4700.

As of 24 June Radio Veritas will be off air on its medium wave frequency (576AM) for about two weeks due to urgent and essential work being done on our mast which necessitates the shut down. Please bear with us and keep listening to us on our remaining two platforms – DSTV 870 of the audio bouquet and streaming live on the internet at www.radioveritas.co.za

As of 11 June Radio Veritas has been assigned a new audio frequency. Our new frequency is 870 of the audio bouquet. It was 170. Please also know that Radio Veritas can be heard on DSTV on the cheapest subscription service of MultiChoice– EASYVIEW. This costs about R220 PER YEAR. Not much to pay for Catholic radio on DSTV.