Family Matters

19th Sunday 33 A.  WORLD DAY OF THE POOR. “Do not turn your face away from anyone who is poor” (Tob 4:7). The parish Care Group gathered for their “tea, biscuit and sharing” time after the monthly Mass for the elderly. Doris opened with, “One of my favourite...

MARFAM WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER 15 NOVEMBER 2023 The MARFAM theme for the month of November is LOSS AND ENDINGS.   Little could I imagine what the reality facing our world in the last years would involve.   So often we deal with death in our immediate circle, of family and...

MARFAM FAMILY WEEKLY ENEWSLETTER 8 NOVEMBER 2023 The Trinity and creation “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.”    This very short but powerful prayer is so often glossed over, and we may even say it without thinking, taking it as an...

MARFAM FAMILY WEEKLY ENEWSLETTER 1 NOVEMBER 2023 “SIYA”, “See Ye.”  Will that be a new South African greeting.  We can also say “Siyabonga,”  meaning “thank you.” Or why not use our hero’s full name, Siyamthanda, which means “we love him.”   I...

2023 FAMILY WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER W OCTOBER 25.  POPE FRANCIS ASKS US TO "PRAY AND FAST FOR PEACE ON FRIDAY 27 OCTOBER. in Rome, at home. Some time during the month of October, which is commemorated widely as “Breast Cancer Awareness month,”  I share a story I found...

FAMILY WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER 2023 OCTOBER 18.  Pope Francis.  Authentic human development has a moral character.  It presumes full respect for the human person, but it must also be concerned for the world around us and take into account the nature of each being and of...

Family Weekly e-newsletter 11 October 2023 The 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality has got under way, beginning with the impressive opening Mass in St Peter’s square on 4 October. It also coincided with other events, the ending of the...