Bij het woordje ‘catechese’ denken we vooral aan de catechese voor kinderen die hen voorbereidt op de eerste communie en wat later op het vormsel. Elk jaar kunnen we overal in Vlaanderen en ook in […]
Een eigenaardige, aparte, totaal andere viering van Aswoensdag was het dit jaar. De as werd opgelegd, zoals ieder jaar, met woorden eeuwenoud. “Gedenk, mens, dat je stof bent en tot stof zult wederkeren” (Genesis 3,19) […]
It was an extraordinary, peculiar, totally different celebration of Ash Wednesday this year. The ashes were imposed, as they are every year, with words centuries old. “Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall […]
Van bij het ontstaan van Windekind vzw in 1960 is de parochie Sint-Kwinten actief betrokken in de uitbouw van dit centrum voor kinderen en jongeren met een beperking. Vele jaren later is die band met […]
Wie had kunnen vermoeden vorig jaar deze tijd dat we enkele weken later in een wereldsituatie zouden terechtkomen ongezien en totaal onverwacht. Door de Covid-19 pandemie die zich wereldwijd verspreidde werden ongeziene maatregelen noodgedwongen genomen […]
Who could have guessed, this time last year, that a few weeks later we would find ourselves in an unprecedented and totally unexpected global crisis. With the COVID-19 pandemic spreading worldwide, extraordinary measures were taken […]
“With the disappearance of a sociological Christianity, in which most children were baptized shortly after birth, more adults are discovering the Christian faith later in life. After following their own path of introduction to the […]
It was a dreary, drizzly day, but many enthusiastic and warmhearted people gathered to celebrate the patron saint’s feast of Sint Kwinten on Sunday 25 October 2020. In his homily, Father Juan Carlos Tinjacá made […]
On 27 September during the Sunday Eucharist at Sint-Kwinten’s pater Joseph Imama, cm concelebrated and spoke during the homily about a project that the Pastoral Zone of Leuven is supporting, “Mama Pélagie School”, a school […]
Though every Baptism is special, we didn’t expect the Baptism of our fourth child to be particularly unusual. Last year, while we were travelling across the UK for the Baptism and Confirmation of Gregory’s godson […]