NOVEMBER, FACING LOSSES AND ENDINGS.
MARFAM WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER 6 NOVEMBER 2024 MARFAM’S theme for this month over the years has regularly focused on loss of different kinds. While in the Church the main emphasis tends to be on those who have died, our focus has mainly been on death, grief and…
NOVEMBER. LOSS, DEATH AND THE POOR.
November 4. Joyce and Pat had both grown up in poor families who had struggled for survival. Education was a great value, but the education in positive values taught at home was equally important. “Even though we are not poor now, so much of what we were…
SUNDAY ALL SAINTS.
November 3. Sunday All Saints. Fr Teddy asked the congregation, “Why do you suppose the gospel for this feast is the Beatitudes? I thought about that and realised that the qualities of those mentioned there are in fact the qualities of saints. You know that St Paul…
NOVEMBER THEME: FAMILY LOSSES AND ENDINGS
NOVEMBER Introduction. Family Losses and Endings. Losses big and small are inevitable experiences of daily life. Birth, growth, decline and death are the natural cycle of every element of creation. For inanimate creatures it may be a painless letting…
FAMILIES ON MISSION. WEARING THE ARMOUR OF GOD
October 31. One of the catechists had started a parish group for young children, the Masolenyana, or “The Little Soldiers of Christ. They loved their colourful uniform especially when the leader suggested it was like their armour for God. “If the devil…
MY JOURNEY WITH AND ALONGSIDE RADIO VERITAS.
MARFAM WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER 30 OCTOBER 2024 Can I say we were old friends, Radio Veritas, MARFAM and Chris and Toni Rowland. In a way we were, having known Fr Emil Blaser and Marc and Olinda Orlando through Marriage Encounter from the late…
FAMILY ON MISSION. THE SABBATH
October 28. “The Sabbath. Be honest”, the group leader said, “What does the Sabbath day mean to us nowadays?” “I sleep late.” “I enjoy going to my sodality meeting.” “I love the atmosphere in church even if it takes long.” “I feel guilty if I don’t…
FAMILIES ON MISSION. LIGHTSHEDDING.
October 27. 30th Sunday B. Lightshedding. Fr Joseph came to Mass wearing his dark glasses. He began his homily with the words, “The Mission of all the baptised is to spread the light of Christ. Loadshedding as has been all too common in…
FAMILY ON MISSION. PATIENCE AND TOLERANCE
October 26. Patience and tolerance. Every year from the end of winter and the beginning of spring gardeners go out in force, pruning, digging up, tidying, replanting and fertilising and then patiently wait to see how fruitful their efforts have been…
FAMILY ON MISSION. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES
October 25. Reading the Signs of the Times. The speaker addressed the meeting. “It isn’t only economists, politicians and people like the Public Protector or investigative journalists who are engaged in reading the Signs of the Times, but it is just as well that…
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