District Six
Holy Cross Parish
A hundred year history of faith
Schedule of Mass and Celebrations
Sunday Mass
9:00am English Mass
10:30am Italian Mass
Weekly Mass
Monday to Friday 06:30pm
Please, note that on Friday the Mass is not celebrated in the Church but in the Chapel of Holy Cross Sisters’ Convent.
Every Wednesday we pray the Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Our Pastoral Team
Parish priest: fr. Gerardo Garcia Ponce, CS
Italian Chaplain: fr. Filippo Ferraro, CS
PPC Chairman: Mr. Ryan Boise
Catechist Leader: Mrs. Teresa Barandilla
Holy Cross Parish hosts the Italian Catholic Community of Cape Town.
Da molti anni Holy Cross è la Casa della Comunità Cattolica Italiana del Capo.
Holy Cross is also a House of Formation for African youth, discerning their vocation in the Scalabrinian Congregation
Gone
Buried
Covered by the dust of defeat –
Or so the conquerors believed
But there is nothing that can
Be hidden from the mind
Nothing that memory cannot
Reach or touch or call back
Don Mattera, 1987
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Contact Information
Please, note that since we don’t have a schedule for receiving parishoners and visitors, we ask you to contact in advance Fathers in order to make an appointment. Thanks.