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	<description>Follow along with the experiences of Fr. Al Ellis, O.S.A., Augustinian missionary in South Africa.</description>
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		<title>Moving On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone:

As of this month a year will have passed since I’ve scripted some news on the OSA’s from the USA on our SA website. Life has a way of passing by as we go from daily matters that slide quickly into weeks and months before the realization of another passing year. If you haven’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=32</link>
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		<title>Ogrina: A Ghost by Any Other Name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone:

Last Monday evening I had the good fortune of a dinner invitation at the residence of Guy and Barbara Koenig, who live at 31 Hildray Cres in Kloof.  Not knowing my way around town with its narrow, twisting and often steep residential roads, Guy graciously offered to chauffer me over and back to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Do Not Enable My People: An Invitation to Ministry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 14, 2006, I shared this talk with my brother Augustinians during our chapter gathering at Villanova, PA.

Please accept the souvenir elephants at your places as a reminder of our commitment in South Africa as well as our connectedness over the miles. 

May the handout featuring our Augustinian volunteers be helpful in furthering our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=29</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Same ole, same ole.&#8221; Not quite&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello Everyone:

It has been awhile since my twentieth letter appeared on our South African website.  Interesting events have occurred though not recorded sorry to say.  It has been by and large the same ole, same ole of catching up on this and that, the usual line you’ve heard many times and may have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=28</link>
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		<title>Not Paying Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I asked Flossie Zumama, our dear and wonderful employee (who keeps me, the friary and business offices in good order), to sit awhile and tell me how things had gone since the previous Thursday after leaving the premises early that morning for public transportation (in a 12 passenger van) to Impendla, a Zulu area [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=27</link>
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		<title>Demonic Possessions - Sacramentals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Deacon Lawrence Mthethwa took time out of his busy schedule at the chancery to give me an interview, as I was interested in hearing more about the eerie events at our mission of a Zulu lady in her late twenties.  There is no convincing Lawrence that we have a case other than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Ants, Suicide and Self-Reliance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone:

On this morning’s walk back and forth on the church parking lot, which is nearly the length of a football field (though not nearly as wide), I happened upon an unusual sight.  A night crawler was minding its own business making its way along the macadam surface when an army of ants began [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Life Beyond Swinging in the Trees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone:

This morning I was up by 5:30, unlocking doors (12 of them), pulling blinds and drawing curtains to let the sunshine in.  Yes, the sun was up already and shinning brightly too.  When I unlocked the front door and looked out towards the main gate, to my surprise just inside the gate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=15</link>
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		<title>Time was Getting Short</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone:

Yesterday, I had my first experience at participating in a Zulu funeral which took place in a hall easily accommodating four hundred people. The church near the home of the deceased was simply too small for those wishing to express their condolences.  The service started at 9:00 a.m. and ended at 1:00 in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=16</link>
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		<title>A More Vicious Way to Burn CD&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It may be of curiosity if not of interest that daylight starts early this time of year.  Light is noticeable at 4:30 and the sun is up by five.  Our turn of dark days will come in May, June &#038; July, so I’m told.

I see from looking at the 2006 liturgical calendar we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=17</link>
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		<title>Medical Care: Let Downs and Hopes for the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday Dr. Bob Moffitt (a general practitioner) and I set off for a 2:00 o’clock appointment with a government health minister, Ms. Busi Grootboom, at her Westville office, located a few miles west of Durban. 

At two o’clock sharp we exchanged greetings in a waiting area and were promptly ushered into a spacious conference [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=9</link>
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		<title>One Man and a Whole Lot of Seeds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone:

Arthur Rylance, one of our Saint Vincent de Paul members, happened by the front office the other day and so I beckoned him to come through the double set of doors into the “inner sanctum” for a chat.  Arthur readily accepted the invitation and that’s what I’m going to tell you about, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=18</link>
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		<title>A Sad Tale and Rules Meant to be Broken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At 8:30 on Thursday morning while reading the paper's usual disheartening stories of spousal abuse, street violence, theft and corruption (sipping a cup of coffee), Flossie our housekeeper told me of a lady waiting to speak with a priest. I figured the coffee was not all that good for me anyway so I left the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=8</link>
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		<title>Vibrating within the rhythmic music of S.A.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Terese

Hello Everyone:

The idea of retracing my first full day (Sept. 1), struck me as a valid approach in the telling of South African life situations as they unfold before my eyes. These encounters shall be viewed differently by each reader as possibly uncommon, if not at times, surprising.  Nonetheless, they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=22</link>
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		<title>Confirming Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Parishioners:

It is First Friday.  Fr. Hattrick is having the foundation at the eastern end of the church hall shored up while Fr. Benjie and I are off to an orphanage where Mass is celebrated for the Sisters and a few patients each Friday at noon.

As I strolled about the orphanage I met up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=21</link>
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		<title>The Zulu Good Samaritan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello Everyone:

Before beginning this letter I decided to check where I left off and noticed that my closing sentence might very well have been misleading as I spoke of the Zulu lady who came into the rectory with a “death notice.”  

As I came through the office this morning on the feast of Our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=19</link>
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		<title>Laboring in the Lord&#8217;s Vineyards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The favor of the lord be with you

September 26, 2005

Hello Everyone:

This past Friday, The Very Reverend Donald F. Reilly, O.S.A., Prior Provincial of the Province of St. Thomas of Villanova, met with His Eminence, Wilfrid Cardinal Napier, and Archbishop of Durban.  The appointment was 9:30 in the morning at the Chancery.

The purpose of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=23</link>
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		<title>Reading into the Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello Everyone:

Today, was a privileged opportunity of visiting Lindiwuje Yvonne, the acting principal of St. Leo School which was established in 1923 and became a government sponsored public school in 1996. A surprise to me is that the land and the school buildings remain as parish assets and therefore, responsibility for its upkeep; whereas, teacher [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=7</link>
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		<title>Beginnings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello Everyone:

This will be my first in a series of articles I hope to write for those who may be interested in the events as they unfold daily with those I’ve encountered and observed in our two mission parishes, St. Leo and St. Helen. The mother church is Our Lady of Mercy, in Kloof, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=6</link>
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		<title>A Lifetime Commitment to Each Other</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Parishioners:

This is my 10th letter, since being assigned to Our Lady of Mercy Parish and it starts with ring of the door bell on Sept. 6, just shy of a full week since my arrival in South Africa.  It is memorable because of Joan and Patrick, who have come to the rectory requesting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://augustinian.org/africa/?p=20</link>
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