About the Faith Companion

About the Faith Companion


The Faith Companion is a two monthly magazine aimed at accompanying Catholic parishioners on their faith journey. It's purpose is  to be an interface between faith and life. Our goal is simply to make faith accessible to everyone; offering companionship, understanding and clarity as we journey together. Faith should not be lived in isolation; as a community we encourage and enrich eachother so that we are more equipped and empowered as children of God.

The Forget -Me-Not flower 
is known as a symbol of undying love and eternal friendship. However, there is an ancient Christian legend regarding this flower according to which the Child Jesus sitting on Mary's lap, told her He wished  future generations could see here eyes. He then waved His hands over the ground and the blue forget-me-not flower appeared. Thus according to legend, this flower represents Mary's eyes and as such will be used by the Faith Companion as our main symbol.

JOURNYING TOGETHER

Four key areas in which we discover the treasure revealed to us through our faith...

01

Encountering Tradition

Articles on theology and the Tradition. They will be geared towards accessibility and living an authentic faith in daily life.

This is not intellectual or academic, but aimed toward being practical and applied to ordinary life.

02

Encountering Scripture

Featuring articles on scripture, with a relevance to daily living and how the Word of God can be used to nourish the faith journey or influence spirituality.

The aim is to open up Scripture to all to enhance living an authentic life of faith hearing the Word of God through Scripture.

03

Exploring Prayer

Articles on prayer are designed to aid greater understanding by exploring and considering a life of prayer.

Featuring different prayer practices and addressing problems in prayer.

All aspects of a life of prayer and growth in relationship to God will be considered.

04

Saints and Spiritualities

Prominent saints will be explored in each edition, covering their lives and their main contributions to the faith.

It is here the Tradition will be encountered through looking back at the great Catholics who came before us and sharing their wisdom. 

More Included

  • Devotion Exchange

    Parishioners are invited to submit devotional practices to share with others. These are practices, techniques or tips used to deepen prayer or connection with God in daily life – anything that people do to help their faith journey in life, especially in a busy life.

    These could be handed down through generations or developed and discovered recently.

    This is a place where people can share how they integrate their faith into busy lives. People can submit experiences of these new shared practices saying if they have worked or if it has influenced their lives and faith in any way.


  • Faith Stories

    It is here people can submit and share faith stories of either their journey or their experiences of God. It could even be a story they heard or knew about that influenced them along the way (if passing on someone else’s faith story, please obtain permission first).

    All authors will be anonymised to protect privacy, and personal details are to be limited to how it affects the story of faith. These stories are to be about how God touched people’s lives not about any one particular individual’s details.

    Also, it is here that priests/seminarians, religious/noviates can share their faith stories or journeys, for example, what led a seminarian to the seminary or the story that led to ordination. This may be particularly helpful for those considering priestly vocations or a vocation to the religious life, to see how others navigated their journey.

    Prayers will also be shared to pray for priests and the Church.

    If you’d like to submit a faith story, please visit our contact page.

  • Graces Received

    This is a place where parishioners share insights or graces received by God during times of worship, prayer or reading Scripture – or even in daily life.

    It could be a sudden, or not so sudden, deeper understanding of an aspect of faith, an illumination out of the blue, a voice heard deep in prayer, or a sudden answer to a prayer or need fulfilled which was felt to be from God.

    This is where God’s voice can be heard; where the fruits of a living faith can be shared.

    If you’d like to share a story of a grace received, please visit our contact page.


  • Questions and Answers

    Submit any questions, no matter how basic, about the Catholic faith and The Faith Companion will answer them in this section.

    If you didn’t want to bother your priest and didn’t know where to get answers, then ask us. All answers will be based strictly in line with Catholic doctrine and teaching.

    You can submit a question via our contact page.

  • Book Review

    Books of interest to anyone wishing to learn more or deepen faith will be reviewed in this section.

    All books featured will aim to inspire, feed and nourish faith. This is another area where the Tradition can be encountered.



  • Partner Information

    Find within our site information relating to key partners of the Faith Companion

Neem vandaag nog contact met ons op!

By checking, I agree to share my information in accordance with the Faith Companion  privacy policy

Share by: