Barnabas lekganyane at city moria 2017 easter

Reading from rendering "Lamentations lift Jeremiah", Point in time 5

Remember, O Lord, what is walk upon us:
consider, and view our upbraid,
Our land assessment turned upon to strangers, our homes to foreigners,
We are orphans and fatherless, our Mothers are trade in widows,
We receive to indemnify for doing water;and bitter wood remains sold unto us,
Our necks are adorn the connexion of subjugation, we laboriousness, and phenomenon have no rest."

Khotsong Masione! Peace unto you! Uxolo Mazayoni!

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President F W staterun Klerk;
Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi;
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When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land…

Desmond Tutu

On December 10^th, 1993, a strange drama was unfolding in Oslo. Before a star-studded audience at the famed Oslo City Hall, Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, commended together Frederik Willem de Klerk and Nelson Mandela on winning the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize. All evening, a curiously religious mood hung in the air. F.W. de Klerk, quoting Afrikaans poets, highlighted in his Nobel lecture the Apartheid regime’s ‘soul-searching’ to “work for peace in our land,^[1] while Mandela drew on the work of the preacher Albert Lutuli, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to frame his lecture. Sejersted praised both de Klerk and Mandela for recognizing “the God-factor in [all men]…[who] strive to serve [their] creator to the best of [their] ability…”^[2] “Reconciliation,” declared the Committee, “…the recognition that one must give in order to be able to take… provides hope not only for South Africa; it is also a shining example for the world that there are ways out of the vicious circle of…bitterness.”^[3] Committee members

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Speech by Nelson Mandela at Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 3 April 1994

(Begin with a reading from the Gospel According to St Matthew, Chapter 5. Verses: 1 to 12.)

1. And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain;and when he was set,

2. his disciples came unto him;and he opened his mouth, and taught them saying,

3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven,

4.Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

5. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

6. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

7. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

8. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

9. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

10. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

11. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely,for my sake.

12. Rejoice and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Khotsong Masione! Peace unto you! Uxolo Mazayoni!

Your Grace,
Bishop Barnabas Lekganyane,