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“There is an urgent need in the Church today that is hardly even recognised as a need. It is the need to establish (revive) a special Ministry to workers including the millions who are unemployed and their families: the working class. Joseph Falkiner has highlighted this need by taking us through his own gradual discovery of the extensive everyday exploitation and suffering of workers in South Africa today. This book needs to be widely read in all our South African Churches.”
–Albert Nolan OP
This book was originally published in 2021. Now published with the eulogies at the time of his death in 2024. The book outlines his life prior to joining the Dominican friars in Southern Africa, his life as a Dominican his time as Chaplain at various levels to the Young Christian Worker’s movement (YCW).
Joseph Falkiner OP (1934-2024), grew up in Springs (South Africa), had part of his schooling in Boksburg and as a priest worked not only in the white town of Brakeman, but also in the poorer black townships of both Brakeman and Springs. He entered the Dominican Order in Stellenbosch in 1963 and was involved various ministries in the Vice Province of Southern Africa. He was a founding member of the new Dominican community that was started with Frs Benedict Mulder, Finbar Synott and Albert Nolan in 1979 in Mayfair, South Africa. For many years he was a Chaplain to the Young Christian Workers (YCW) in South Africa at local, and national levels. He spent his retirement in Pietermaritzburg where he died on Tuesday 2 April at the age of 89 years of age.
