REFLECTIONS
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...
LOVE GIVES FAMILIES LIFE
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,...
REFLECTIONS. extracts from February 2021 daily thoughts
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...
OVERVIEW FEBRUARY DAILY THOUGHTS “LOVE GIVES FAMILIES LIFE”
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 and...
BAPTISED AND SENT
Has anyone heard of the place Ackerville? I had come across it, even been to the church there once or twice, but had no real idea of the role the township adjoining the town of Witbank – now Emahlaleni - had played in the history of our country. Through...
reflections: EXTRACTS DAILY THOUGHTS JANUARY AND FEBRUARY
January 28. James reflected, “The State Capture Commission is costing the country more than an arm and a leg, but even its soul. Witnesses – reluctant and willing, whistle-blowers and those presumed to be guilty give evidence, come or are dragged before...
TALKING OF SOLIDARITY.
Firstly an observation. Solidarity is not the same thing as sodality. The words seem to get confused sometimes. Sodalities are church groups of people, mostly women’s groups. We have the Sacred Heart sodality, Women of St Anne and many others. Their focus...
REFLECTIONS. extracts from JANUARY DAILY THOUGHTS: FAMILY BEGINNINGS
January 22. How conscious were the OT writers about creation and the environment? How conscious was Jesus? Did he have many personal friends and what kind of people did he choose? We know little about the twelve closest men but they were a varied group....
FAMILY BEGINNINGS, WITH HUMILITY – JANUARY 13 FAMILY WEEKLY
Our New Year is already nearly 2 weeks old and it has certainly turned out a dramatic, traumatic and event-filled time on many fronts. Politically the US has taken the cake, Spain, under half a metre of snow has borne the brunt of climate change and many countries...
REFLECTION EXTRACTS jANUARY 2021.”FAMILY BEGINNINGS”
January 14. Anthea commented, “I wonder how many people go to faithhealers when they contract the coronavirus, or is that not done, or not possible because of the restrictions. This virus is certainly a case where urgent prayers for healing are prayed. It...
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