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...
2024 MARCH THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY
2024 OUR WORLD, A FAMILY OF FAMILIES. MARFAM DAILY THOUGHTS FOR MARCH AND LENT PART 2 Theme: HUMAN RIGHTS ARE FAMILY RIGHTS – BECOMING ECO-FRIENDLY FAMILIES - A LENTEN PROGRAMME you can download the 2024 Family Year Planner in A3...
TALKING OF TEMPTATION CAN BE TRICKY.
MARFAM FAMILY WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER 21 FEBRUARY 2024 If you gave up chocolates for Lent and gave in to the temptation to eat one is that a sin? If you resisted you must be a saint! As we’ve just listened to Mark’s Sunday gospel on Jesus’ temptation I’ve been...
STAYING AT HOME OR GOING OUT. WHERE IS GOD?
MARFAM FAMILY WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER 14 FEBRUARY 2024 “No one should stay at home....” was the headline that caught my attention when the ACI Catholic newsletter for Africa arrived in my inbox. “Oh no, I don’t agree” was my immediate reaction, as after all this was the...
CLOSE, COMPASSIONATE AND TENDER.
MARFAM FAMILY WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 7 FEBRUARY 2024. Everyone knows that February is the month of love and of Valentine. One wonders how many people know it is also the month of Ash Wednesday and this year these two days coincide. Interestingly. I found...
THE LITTLE THING CALLED HOPE
MARFAM FAMILY WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER 31 JANUARY 2024 Apart from being practical, theologically sound and spiritually mature, we are also called to be artistic, creative, filled with the joy of life in creation. This little poem continues to touch my spirit. HOPE...
FIT TO GO or WAY TO GO?
MARFAM FAMILY WEEKLY 24 JANUARY 2024 I don’t feel fit to go just yet, apart from picking up a lousy cold on the way home from my travelling and visiting the sick week, I seem to be way behind in planning for 2024. Does that sound familiar? Does it get...
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