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...
LIFE’S BEGINNINGS, FAMILY BEGINNINGS
I’ve been waxing eloquent for some time about “family” being the be-all and end-all of creation. When I reflected on the process of the evolution of the universe over the estimated 13.8 billion years from the birth of galaxies to the evolution of life and up to our...
EPIPHANY AND THE LIGHT TO THE NATIONS
The people of South Africa were delighted that the year 2022 didn’t start with a whimper but with quite a bang as fortunately the President had lifted the curfew, at almost the 11th hour, because of our reducing number of Covid 19 cases. For some reason we reached,...
JANUARY DAILY THOUGHTS. WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR PEACE. MARY MOTHER OF GOD
As never before in history common destiny begs us to seek a new beginning. Let ours be a time remembered for the awakening of a new reverence for life, the firm resolve to achieve sustainability, the quickening of the struggle for justice and peace and the...
2022 FAMILY YEAR PLANNER
FOR DAILY THOUGHTS AND A WEEKLY FAMILY MATTERS NEWSLETTER GO TO http://www.marfam.org.za/ 2022-MARFAM-FAMILY-YEAR-PLANNER-rev-overview-1-1Download
ONE AFRICAN CHRISTMAS
2021 FW 29 December 28, 2021 Once more during this holiday time I would like to share one of my stories from bygone years that even in 2021, I think, keeps its relevance as violence continues. On 28th December the Church celebrates the feast of the Holy...
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE.
World news nearly every day of the year reports on the plight of migrants and refugees in one or more places around the world, braving cold, heat, rain and dangerous terrain. As more people flee violence, insecurity and the effects of climate change, the number...
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