LOVE GIVES LIFE – FRUITFULNESS and FERTILITY.
During this month of February with the theme “Love gives Life” we’ve explored lifegiving in the World as a Family of Families and the context of animal procreation as well as a spirituality of life-giving in human marriage. This week life-giving will come more down to...
MARRIAGE AND LIFE-GIVING LOVE
LOVE GIVES FAMILIES LIFE. this is the MARFAM theme for February and it shouldn’t only apply to marriage, but with World Marriage Day on 2nd Sunday of February it is an opportunity to focus on marriage at least once a year. This day has been a special day for me...
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
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
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...
DAILY THOUGHTS FEBRUARY 2023
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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...
CO-CREATION WITH THE CREATOR, THE WONDERS OF REPRODUCTION IN NATURE. by Toni Rowland
Reflections on THE TRIALS OF LIFE. A NATURAL HISTORY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR. DAVID ATTENBOROUGH. An article in a series on OUR WORLD, A FAMILY OF FAMILIES by Toni Rowland, MARFAM DAVID ATTENBORROUGH is not only a national treasure as...
A GOOD BEGINNING – WHEREVER YOU ARE.
In south Africa, being a southern hemisphere country with our summer holiday time from December to January and so encompassing the whole Christmas season, there is lots of potential family time and potential God time. It is also the year end and time for rest, but...
HAD ANY GREAT EPIPHANIES RECENTLY?
"Now I see." EPIPHANY. Some words used in religious settings tend to be strange and mysterious. Epiphany is one such word, taken from Greek, it means manifestation, revelation, a sudden intuitive perception or insight, a “Now I...
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