Family Matters

WORLD MARRIAGE DAY 12 FEBRUARY 2023. 

WORLD MARRIAGE DAY 12 FEBRUARY 2023. 

Background notes and suggestions for a commemoration on the day.   A similar event can be held at another suitable time.       Toni Rowland – MARFAM WORLD MARRIAGE DAY is celebrated on 2nd Sunday of February each year. This was first proposed by Marriage Encounter and...

LOVE GIVES FAMILIES LIFE

LOVE GIVES FAMILIES LIFE

  We’re into February, the month of love.  No point in dismissing it as even Pope Francis accepts its value. He wrote Traditional practices like St Valentine’s Day should not be underestimated. Commercial interests are quicker to see the potential than we...

BENEDICT DASWA – A MAN OF FAITH, A FAMILY MAN

BENEDICT DASWA – A MAN OF FAITH, A FAMILY MAN

After his beatification in 2015 the process for canonization of the South African Benedict Daswa, who was killed for his refusal to support witchcraft, is ongoing.  In 2015 Bishop Joao Rodriguez of Tzaneen diocese said he hopes devotion to “this apostle of life” will...

BEATITUDES FOR FAMILIES

BEATITUDES FOR FAMILIES

“A family is an intimate community of life and love, bonded together for life by blood, marriage or adoption.”  “Families become what you are, the little Church of the Home.”        Pope John Paul II Blessed are the poor in spirit .. who value their relationships with...