SEASON OF CREATION. HOPE FOR THE WORLD?
While acknowledging the amount of energy and efforts that have gone into all the many kinds of activities around the Season of Creation which will end on 4 October, the feast of St Francis, I have not felt completely at one with some of them, in particular when they...
OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FAITH – TO BRAAI, MARCH OR PRAY
History across time and the world, is a continual process of cohabitation, invasions, wars, foreign occupation, enslavement, liberation, development and regression. South Africa’s heritage includes these features too with successive periods of occupation by Holland...
PANGOLINS, BIODIVERSITY AND THE FAMILY OF FAMILIES
I’ve had an interest in pangolins for quite a long time maybe because they seem such unusual-looking creatures, a scaly ant-eater, and they are among the most frequently trafficked, more than a million in the last 10 years. When one explores that aspect one...
ECO-UBUNTU AND ECUMENISM
The particular value of the Season of Creation is its ecumenical nature. The commemoration was started in 1989 by the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I . Other Christian denominations joined in over the years, Catholics in 2015....
CREATION AND THE SEASON OF CREATION
The Tree of Life. It is the end of the month of August, Women’s month in South Africa, with MARFAM’s focus on Sexuality as a Family Gift. SA focused strongly on gender-based violence, a serious social problem, as well as women’s rights. From a social perspective...
WHEN IS A SAUSAGE NOT A SAUSAGE?
Woman’s Month, this August, has been full of questions to ponder over, for me and maybe for many. A good number revolve around law. Every day national TV features court cases that appear to be never-ending, and definitely seem to be splitting hairs in legal debates...
ASSUMPTION OF MARY INTO HEAVEN. SA PATRONAL FEAST
August 21st Sunday 21C. Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven. Patron Feast of SA. The Catholics in the group were given a chance to explain their devotion to Mary to the others. Different people shared how they saw her as a powerful queen, a mother, a sorrowing...
PATRONS AND MARY, QUEEN AND PATRONESS
Feastday transferred from 15 August to Sunday 21 August. What is the significance of patrons or patronesses in the church and society today? Are they to be seen as good guys or bad guys? Wikipedia describes patronage as the support, encouragement, privilege, or...
2022 SEASON OF CREATION SEPTEMBER DAILY THOUGHTS
2022 OUR WORLD, A FAMILY OF FAMILIES MARFAM DAILY THOUGHTS WITH THE SEASON OF CREATION 1 SEPTEMBER TO 4 OCTOBER. FAMILY YEAR PLANNER SEPTEMBER THEME “OUR WORLD OF FAMILIES” and OCTOBER THEME “FAMILY ON MISSION.”...
THE WOMEN IN ONE’S LIFE
In South Africa 9 August has become a very important day. Dare I say for the wrong reasons, i.e. gender-based violence, rather than celebrating and honouring women in our families and society. Much of the violence against women and girls too in fact...
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