JESUS AND THE MEDIA family weekly 20 April 2022.
With the MARFAM April theme GOD AND FAMILY still in mind what has Easter 2022 meant for me and you? Did it mean a weekend spent in Church participating in the various liturgies and the variety of ways in which we ourselves and the churches we visited created...
EASTER MONDAY. STORY TIME FOR FAMILY DAY SA.
The Greek owner at the Spar greeted all the customers who came in to buy Easter eggs by saying, “The Lord is risen, Alleluia.” Instead of saying, “Thanks be to God, Alleluia,” which is the right reply, most of them looked at him funnily and went on to get their...
A wholly holy week
It is said “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” I am thinking that holiness too is in the eye of the beholder. I seem to remember that it is not uncommon for disasters of various kinds to happen during a holy season like this week. A headline in the newspaper La...
DOES GOD REALLY LIVE IN OUR HOUSE?
Many years ago when beginning our introduction of a spirituality of the family I wrote one of my poems that started, “Does God really live in our house, the little one wanted to know? Or does he just live in that place down the road where we go to say our hello?...
2022 APRIL DAILY THOUGHTS
APRIL DAILY THOUGHTS for Lent, Holy Week and Easter. 2022-April-reflections-Download
LENT, HOLY WEEK, EASTER AND THE FAMILY
As we progress through Lent and soon into Holy Week there are some simple family celebrations that can be held at home at this time to enrich the spiritual journey together. The Liturgy during Holy Week is beautiful and meaningful but not always appropriate for...
RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF CREATION
Do animals have rights and do plants? Do they have responsibilities? Or do they have rights to exist and flourish while we, human animals, have the responsibility to ensure their welfare? But what about within the animal kingdom, are there not some inherent norms...
THE ANNUNCIATION, FAMILY RIGHTS AND THE RIGHT TO LIFE
A long time ago in Israelbegan the story that we now tell. Mary, a maiden young and fairwas talking to God one day in prayerwhen He sent His angel to that placeand the angel said,“Hello Mary, full of grace,the Lord is with you. I am sent to askif you will please...
HUMAN RIGHTS, FAMILY RIGHTS AND VALUES
Human rights have become a major issue of concern world-wide especially since the end of World War II and the drafting and adoption of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Every country has its own areas of concern with regard to human rights....
RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES WITH THE MORAL REGENERATION MOVEMENT
ETHICS, MORALITY, two words that, to some people, mean the same thing and to others not quite, while to everyone they may even appear quite challenging. It is intriguing that Ethics in Greece was translated as Morality in Rome. To my mind, it might...
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