WMOF NOVENA DAY 8. Divorce support
June 20. WMOF Novena day 8. Focus on divorce and separation. Mrs Mbambana got very annoyed with the behaviour of a group of Grade 11s. They were constantly in trouble and acted defiantly when she called them to order. “I think I should call your parents in,” she...
CORPUS CHRISTI, FATHERS DAY ++
June 19. WMFO Novena Day 7. Focus on widows and widowers. Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. Fathers’ Day. Peter was delighted to be invited to...
POVERTY. WMOF NOVENA DAY 6
June 18. WMFO Novena Day 6. Focus on Poverty. Which girl, or boy, for that matter, hasn't stood in front of their cupboard before a party and said, “I've got nothing to wear?” It's funny that Jesus chose practical examples, but maybe in an...
FAMILY VIOLENCE. WMOF NOVENA DAY 5
June 17. WMFO Novena Day 5. Focus on Family Violence. The YCS group, to which Patrick belonged, had members who came from rich families as well as poor families, with most of them in between. Their chaplain led a meditation on the topic...
JUNE 16 YOUTH DAY. WMOF NOVENA DAY 4
June 16. Youth Day SA. WMFO Novena Day 4. Focus on extended families. Deacon Morris had been one of the young people involved in the Soweto uprising of 1976. At this time as a grandfather and, in a sense the patriarch in the wider family, he looked back...
PRAYING FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN. WMOF NOVENA DAY 3
June 15. WMFO Novena Day 3. Focus on Grandparents, praying for our grandchildren. Patrick said to his gran, “You know what, in the mission Fr G told us fasting and almsgiving isn't only for Lent, it is for any time and you shouldn't show...
CHILDREN BELONG IN FAMILIES AND FATHERS DO TOO.
June, in South Africa, is Youth month and June, on our 2022 Family Year Planner, has as its theme “Children belong in families,” which can include children from young to adolescent. Every year, almost right after Youth Day on 16th June, we commemorate Fathers’...
YOUTH AND THEIR PARENTS. WMOF NOVENA DAY 2
June 14. WMOF Novena day 2. Focus on Parents. Benny had been a gang member since his early teens He had felt abandoned by his alcoholic mother, didn't know his father, and his sister who had been looking after the younger siblings had run...
THE SPIRIT OF GOD-LOVE
PENTECOST, CHRISTIAN UNITY AND WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY. It was a week and a day filled with possibilities one could say, as each of the commemorations could speak to the presence and the work of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus, the personification of love. The...
2022 JUNE FAMILY REFLECTIONS
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