Laudato Si

JULY OVERVIEW. Grandparents are families’ roots.  Old age has traditionally been recognized with respect in many cultures and families, where they are guarded by their offspring and the wider community, in animal as well as human society.  This is changing now, but…

June 30. 13th Sunday Year B. On this last Sunday of Youth Month Fr Alexis spoke to the youth and to their families. “When young people are discerning about their future and many people come to explain their different organisations or types of work, there will be some…

June 29.  St Peter and Paul. It’s hard for us with internet and cell phones to imagine how it was 2000 years ago in the very early days of the Church.   Peter had been with Jesus from the beginning, and here was this upstart Paul, who had been persecuting the…

June 28. “Talk about putting your money where your mouth is,” Patrick commented. “The very first thing Jesus did after finishing his big sermon on the mount, or as you say his vision statement, was put it into practice by healing a leper, an untouchable.  Pope Francis…

June 27.  “‘We used to sing a song about the wise man and the rock at home in the olden days when you kids were young, and when we did pray and read the Bible together at home,” Neal said.  “It was nice then, but I don’t know if that kind of thing would work now….

June 25. Bernadette thought to herself,  “Much of what the church is teaching us seems to be kind of negative, “don’t do this, or look at the problem side.” When I was confirmed I decided to put a different message on my wall in my room, and also on my facebook wall….

June 24. Birth Of John the Baptist.  “JB is one of my favourite saints, Alan said.   “He was a specially chosen person but he chose to respond to what he had to do, preached a message of repentance and conversion. Why are so many of our young people so…

June 23.  Sunday 12B.  Fr Kgomotso posed a question. “Why do you think so many natural disasters seem to be happening around the world?  Why not go and discuss it with your families.” The Masons did and it became quite a heated discussion.  “People…