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...
PARISH FAMILY DEDICATION CEREMONY AND BLESSING
Introduction. (At the beginning of the new year the theme of DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT can be incorporated into the Sunday liturgy when families are back from holidays. All members are asked to recommit themselves to their forms of service.) At the beginning of...
REFLECTIONS ON LOOKING BACK AT POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI. Toni Rowland
His death comes almost 10 years after the late Pope Benedict XVI resigned. Having always been a fairly close follower of the various popes in the more than 40 years of involvement in marriage and family ministry, in one way or another, I spent some time...
MARFAM DAILY THOUGHTS – JANUARY 2023
JANUARY THEME. Family Beginnings. In the beginning there was only God, as Trinity, a community of love. God had a passion to create, to share and to love and so every created thing, as we know them now, came into being. The...
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