Author: Toni Rowland

June 17.   At the youth group after the tough message of Youth Day a powerful and positive talk on youth sexuality and its spirituality was given by a Theology of the Body team.  A number of the youth asked to go...

June 16.  Youth Day SA.   The catechist posed a very difficult question to the young people.  “This day is a holiday in South Africa, nearly 50 years after the events in Soweto in 1976 when young people took...

June 15. Basil, Zola and Mary had never known their father.  When their mother became ill and died when little Mary was just 8 years old and Basil just 17 the children felt very lost.   Their aunt who lived nearby...

CHILDREN BELONG IN FAMILIES AND FATHERS DO TOO. June, in South Africa, is Youth month and June, on our 2023 Family Year Planner, has as its theme “Children belong in families,” which can include children from young to...

June 13. St Anthony of Padua. “Giving names to children when they are born is a very cultural thing. Some families choose names of relatives, some choose an arbitrary name that sounds nice. In other cultures the name has...