Family Matters

March 11. Promoting the common good. Stephen added, “It is difficult to legislate for the common good and for things like ecological conversion. It has been interesting to see how much money and energy has gone into fighting the Covid virus. At the same time climate...

LENTEN PRACTICES taken from LOVE IS HIS LAW, LOVE IS HIS WAY .  The family group discussed, “A sacrifice is essentially something offered to God.  It can mean taking up something, doing, making, giving extra time for the benefit of others but offered to...

Ecological conversion is a term often used by Pope Francis and has to do with environmental awareness, with nature, creation, climate change and the many related issues facing the world including of course the Covid-19 pandemic.  St Francis is used as a model and...

February 25.    Mrs Beatus continued her sharing. PRAISED BE YOU, my Lord through Sister Water, who is very useful and humble and precious and chaste.  PRAISED BE YOU, my Lord through Brother Fire, through whom you light the night, and he is...

February 18. Jack, the catechist, continued his sharing about Lent.  “When I read how Moses speaks about life and death I woke up to the drought that exists in parts of the country from time to time.  Animals and vegetation die for lack of water and human...

St Francis and the Sultan Malik-el-Kamil When Fratelli Tutti the new encyclical by Pope Francis was issued in October 2020  it rang an alarm bell with a distinct   number of readers.   Isn’t that about men,  brothers, and what about...

February 11. Our Lady of Lourdes.  Day of Prayer for the Sick.  Fr Brian was well aware of the search for healing of many of his parishioners. Some went on pilgrimages to Ngome or other shrines, some went to healing services in different churches.  On...

There appear to be a whole bunch of feasts and commemorations around the beginning of February and somehow they can all pick up MARFAM’s February family theme and the idea of Lifegiving Love or Lovegiving Life.  But isn’t that what the Gospel is all about anyway,...

FEBRUARY OVERVIEW: God, the creator, is a lover and it is God's love that is life-giving, creating life continually, sustaining and renewing what has been created.  Our task and gift as human beings and life-givers is co-creation with God in the conception, bearing...