LENT AND ASH WEDNESDAY, FOCUS ON RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
How should this impossibly ugly reality that is playing out in the Ukraine at this time as Russia’s attack continues be addressed? Whose rights and whose responsibilities come into play? How does one respond to an evil, unjust act without aggravating the...
2022 MARCH LENTEN DAILY THOUGHTS.THEME: RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Introduction. Lent begins on 2 March and continues until Holy Week and Easter from 10-17 April. Part 1 is included here and Part 2 of Lent will be included in April DAILY THOUGHTS. There are also other lists of suggestions. MARFAM LENTEN FAMILY...
2022 MARCH LENTEN THEME: FAMILY RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. Part 1 LENTEN DAILY THOUGHTS MARCH
MARCH overview. Family Rights and Responsibilities; a Lenten focus. The right to life should be paramount and in some form it is enshrined in most national Constitutions, the UN Declaration of Human Rights and the Church's Charter of Family Rights. ...
LIFE-GIVING HUMAN-ANIMAL LOVE or DOES GOD HAVE A DOG?
Lifegiving love has been my focus all throughout February, the month of love, expressed in a variety of ways, birth, parenthood, marriage – death, divorce, dementia. All these were in humans while in the background was also a growing awareness of the loving care of...
LIFEGIVING LOVE WHEN DEATH, DIVORCE OR DEMENTIA DOES US PART
Lifegiving and love lie at the heart of marriage, on physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual levels too. It must be acknowledged that there are times when some of these elements are seriously reduced or no longer present. For a variety of reasons love...
FAMILY ECO-FRIENDLY LENTEN CALENDAR
SUGGESTIONS FOR ACTS OF LOVE AND SACRIFICE. To order email [email protected]
MARRIAGE IS A LIFEGIVING SACRAMENT
When my late husband, Chris, and I composed one of our first publications we called it BECOMING MARRIED – SACRAMENT FOR LIFE. There are a few ways to interpret that and maybe the narrowest way became the obvious one. Becoming Married has been seen as marriage...
LOVE GIVES FAMILIES LIFE
Love gives, love gives life. Love gives families life. Is love required to give life? Does tradition matter? Some points for reflections. MARFAM’S Family Year Planner's monthly themes have broad relevance to daily life. January’s...
BEGINNING YOUR ECO-FAMILY-FRIENDLY CAMPAIGN.
Within the broader theme OUR WORLD A FAMILY OF FAMILIES, MARFAM’s January theme has been BEGINNINGS. For a start I asked how and when does a family begin? We still believe that ideally a family begins at marriage with a couple who then, as the saying goes, “start a...
MARRIAGE AN IDEAL FAMILY BEGINNING
The gospel of 2nd Sunday year C on the wedding feast at Cana, and Jesus’ first miracle of changing water into wine, is at least one important opportunity for priests to preach on the subject of Jesus and his place in marriage and family life. How many did? Marriage...
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