HOW FREE ARE WE?
MARFAM, FAMILY WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER 24 APRIL 2024 As we celebrate Freedom Day in SA on 27 April it is good to spend a little time reflecting on the meaning of freedom. Are we free to be, or just free to see? Are we free to do, are we free from or free...
GOD AND FAMILY. HEALTHY FAMILIES – HEALTHY PLANET
MARFAM WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER APRIL 17 2024. When I was composing my newsletter and gathering my thoughts last week about Family Spirituality I noted that one of the elements of family spirituality is family meals. We all know these days how family...
FAMILY SPIRITUALITY. GOD AND FAMILY, IN FAMILY, AS FAMILY
MARFAM weekly e-newsletter 10 April 2024 During MARFAM’s 30 years family spirituality has been an important focus in our ministry. Even before that marriage spirituality was the first focus that Chris and I promoted while working in marriage preparation. But it...
THE ARMS OF LOVE AND THE ARMS OF WAR
MARFAM FAMILY WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER 3 APRIL 2024 When I read the annual Urbi et Orbi message of Pope Francis, to the diocese of Rome and the world, for Easter Sunday 2024 there were many special places, names, words, thoughts and feelings that touched a chord with me....
2024 FAMILY YEAR PLANNER APRIL THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY. THEME:GOD AND FAMILY.
OVERVIEW: APRIL Eastertime. God is Family. God, as Trinity is a family, the perfect community of love. Every human family, as individuals and a unit, is an image of God, and as a family is called to mirror the relationship of the Trinity. St Francis in his Canticle of...
THE PASCHAL MYSTERY AND THE FAMILY
OUR WORLD A FAMILY OF FAMILIES. Since 1994-5, when MARFAM started I have been preparing a Lenten programme every year, sometimes there was a calendar with daily suggestions, sometimes a list of Acts of Love and Sacrifices for people to choose. The Lent and Easter...
THE MANY FACES OF WATER WEEK. HUMAN RIGHTS AND FAMILY RIGHTS
MARFAM'S FAMILY WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER 20 MARCH 2024 2024 is the 30th anniversary of the UN INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE FAMILY. Its chosen theme FAMILIES AND CLIMATE. Climate change would be meaningless without a focus on water. St Francis in his Canticle of the...
HUMAN RIGHTS, WOMEN AND FAMILY RIGHTS
Human Rights Month and International Women’s Day in March, Women’s month and Women’s Day in August always tend to get me worked up. Right from the very early days of MARFAM one of our objectives had been to promote a family perspective and not to promote...
DON’T KILL THE WORLD
MARFAM FAMILY WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER 6 MARCH 2024 Ecological conversion is a focus running through the whole of Lent for me and those others who are following the Lenten lectures on Ecological Conversion of Jesuit Fr Peter Knox. He is therefore also promoting the “Care...
IF WE ONLY HAVE LOVE
MARFAM FAMILY WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER 28 FEBRUARY 2024 We’re getting to the end of February, the month of Love, with our family theme LOVE GIVES FAMILIES LIFE. Pope Francis has said, “Love always gives life,” something worth remembering. During the earlier part of the...
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