Fr Evantus Kene, SMA

Catholic priest serving in the Archdiocese of Pretoria, South Africa. Member of the Society of African Missions (SMA Fathers). Ps 9:1✝️🇿🇦🇳🇬🇻🇦⛪📚⚽🏀🏉

[Fr Evantus Kene, SMA @EvantusKene]

"We need personally to experience the closeness of the Master, to know that we have been seen, loved and chosen by the Lord by pure grace and without merit on our part...” Pope Leo XIV's speech to participants in the Course for Formators and Xaverians at the Vatican (25/7/2025).

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Gospel of the Day (Luke 9:28b-36)

Then from the cloud came a voice that said,
“This is my chosen Son; listen to him.”

[EWTN Vatican @EWTNVatican]

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Holy Mass with more than 1 million young people at Tor Vergata to close the Jubilee of Youth.

[Vatican News @vaticannews_fr]

✝️🇻🇦 Grand-messe du Jubilé sur la plaine de Tor Vergata. Léon XIV a demandé à plus d'un million de jeunes de rechercher « les réalités d’en-haut » et d'aspirer à de grandes choses.

https://t.co/UXDmgIGFR6

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

War is never inevitable. Weapons can and must fall silent, for they never solve problems but only intensify them. Those who sow peace will endure throughout history, not those who reap victims. Others are not enemies to hate but human beings with whom to speak.

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Habemus Papam! We have a Pope!

The Cardinals gathered in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel have elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th Pope, who took the name Pope Leo XIV.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Friends, this is the start of the fourth week of the Synod on Synodality. Though the days are long and I’m eager to return home, they’re also fascinating and, at times, exhilarating. Here’s a bit of insight into what a typical day looks like for me and my fellow delegates.

Please continue praying for us.

A Day at the Synod: https://t.co/TwUZTfpRVx

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

Our own efforts aren’t enough to achieve healing and reconciliation: we need God’s grace. We need the Spirit’s quiet and powerful wisdom. May He fulfill the expectations of our hearts. May he take us by the hand and enable us to walk together. #IndigenousPeoples #Canada

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Reconciliation is not merely the result of our own efforts. It is a gift that flows from the crucified Lord. It is a peace that radiates from the Heart of Jesus, a grace that must be sought. #IndigenousPeoples #Canada

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

Dear #IndigenousPeoples of #Canada, I have come to your native lands to tell you in person of my sorrow, to implore God’s forgiveness, healing and reconciliation, to express my closeness and to pray with you and for you.

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In Canada, Pope Francis welcomed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 🇨🇦

#PopeInCanada #WalkingTogether @JustinTrudeau @papal_visit @CCCB_CECC @VaticanNews

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

The word of Jesus is a teaching that touches and shapes life, frees it from the dullness of evil, satisfies and infuses it with a joy that does not pass: it is the better part. Therefore, Mary gives it first place: she stops and listens. The rest will come after. #GospelOfTheDay

[NASA @NASA]

It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.

Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: https://t.co/63zxpNDi4I

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What the St. Benedict Medal means...

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When 11 year-old Maria refused to engage in sinful activity with a family friend, he stabbed her 14 times. She's honored for her purity, defense of faith, and her willingness to forgive her murderer on her deathbed.

https://t.co/PWXV1DuK4s

#EWTN #Catholic #prayforus

[Fr Evantus Kene, SMA @EvantusKene]

I am only one labourer, among a multitude of labourers, in the Lord's vineyard. Kindly pray for me and for vocations to the priesthood and the religious life. 🙏🏾

[Fr Evantus Kene, SMA @EvantusKene]

"The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few..." (Lk 10:2)
From the Gospel passage of the 14th Sunday in Ordinary time (Yr C).

Thank the Lord with me on the 23rd Anniversary of my Priestly Ordination (3rd of July 1999), the Feast of St Thomas, the Apostle.
🎉🎶🎉⛪. 1/2.

[Fr Evantus Kene, SMA @EvantusKene]

"The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few..." (Lk 10:2)
From the Gospel passage of the 14th Sunday in Ordinary time (Yr C).

Thank the Lord with me on the 23RD ANNIVERSARY OF MY PRIESTLY ORDINATION (3rd of July 1999), the feast of St Thomas, the Apostle.🎉🎶🎉�� 1/2.

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Francis releases his prayer intention for the month of July, and urges everyone to pray for the elderly, so that they may be “teachers of tenderness”.
https://t.co/KYH5KpwYNc