[Kd1871-covenant-solidarity] Fires raging in Cape Town - a call for Covenant Solidarity

[Sarah-Leah Pimentel]

Thank you everyone, for the prayers!

It is frightening to watch everything burn around you.  From my office
windows at work, I can see huge clouds of smoke billowing up as the Tokai
forest burns. A few kilometres behind that is the Constantia Shrine.  The
wine farm across the road from the Shrine is already on fire.  Firefighters
and farm workers are battling the flames before it reaches the vines of
South Africa's oldest wine farm. Last night I watched Muizenberg burn from
my kitchen window till about 1am when the fire fighters stopped the flames
just before it reached the houses.  The wind then blew the flames south to
St James and Fishhoek, and before morning a few houses in Noordhoek were
caught.  To give you an idea of the fires, about 4,000 hectares of mostly
mountain and forest have burnt down already.

Today the temperatures are cooler and there were a few drops of rain which
has helped to settle the ash, but news reports say it's not enough to put
out the fires.

United in solidarity,
s-l


On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Maria Fischer <maria.fischer at schoenstatt.org
> wrote:

>  Dear friends and collaborators of schoenstatt.org
>
> Our collaborator, Sarah Leah Pimentel from South Africa, shared some
> minutes ago that the Schoenstatt Sisters at Constantia have been evacuated
> early in the morning of March 4, as firefighters are focusing their
> efforts on Noordhoek, Clovelly and Tokai this morning as well as assisting
> Groot Constantia residents evacuate as the flames fan out towards their
> doorsteps.  The massive blaze broke out in Muizenberg on Sunday,
> prompting evacuations from houses and retirement homes. Scores of people
> have also been treated for smoke inhalation this week. The entire Table
> Mountain is on fire…
>
> Extremely high temperatures and then a very strong wind set large areas of
> the Table Mountain afire on Sunday, and made the fires spread rapidly to
> surrounding areas.  Over 300 firefighters have been working almost
> non-stop since Sunday, but as fire seems under control at one side, it
> starts somewhere else.   Meanwhile, firefighters who have been battling
> the massive blaze say they’re overwhelmed by all the generosity of the
> public. Donations are streaming for exhausted emergency crews and those who
> have been affected by the fire. It is in moments of extreme need, that
> humanity`s best quality, solidarity, proves to be the force that creates
> heroes… and a better world.
>
>
>  *Let us go on a pilgrimage of covenant solidarity to the shrines in Cape
> Town… Let us pray for strength for the fire fighters, for rain to fall in
> the right places and for the South East wind that is expected later not to
> reignite fires that had already been doused or burn new areas.*
>
> *Let us pray in thanksgiving that no lives have been lost yet and only a
> few homes. *
>
> *Let us be in Covenant Solidarity with Cape Town. Now.*
>
>
>
>
> Read and share, and motivate prayers in your shrine and Schoenstatt groups
> and where ever you can.
>
> http://www.schoenstatt.org/en/news/2365/53/Massives-Fires-in-Cape-Town-a-moment-of-Covenant-Solidarity.htm
>
>
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-- 
Sarah-Leah Pimentel
"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." Nelson Mandela
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