THE ARMS OF LOVE AND THE ARMS OF WAR
MARFAM FAMILY WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER 3 APRIL 2024 When I read the annual Urbi et Orbi message of Pope Francis, to the diocese of Rome and the world, for Easter Sunday 2024 there were many special places, names, words, thoughts and feelings that touched a chord with me….
THE RISEN LORD IS PRESENT LEADING US TO THE FATHER
April 2. Tuesday of Easter week. Young Magdalen shared, “I’m fascinated by the Resurrection story where Mary Magdalene is weeping, and, looking up, sees someone she assumes is the gardener but doesn’t recognize it is Jesus at first. We know God is everywhere, but…
2024 FAMILY YEAR PLANNER APRIL THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY. THEME:GOD AND FAMILY.
OVERVIEW: APRIL Eastertime. God is Family. God, as Trinity is a family, the perfect community of love. Every human family, as individuals and a unit, is an image of God, and as a family is called to mirror the relationship of the Trinity. St Francis in his Canticle of…
EASTER MONDAY. APRIL 1. GOD AND FAMILY
OVERVIEW: APRIL Eastertime. God and Family. God, as Trinity is a family, the perfect community of love. Every human family, as individuals and a unit, is an image of God, and as a family is called to mirror the relationship of the Trinity. St Francis in his Canticle…
EASTER SUNDAY – RESURRECTION
EASTER SUNDAY Was there ever a brighter day than the early morning at the tomb When the women seeking to anoint his body were dazzled and terrified and then enlightened as they remembered his words? what were the brightest days in your life? Were you ever abandoned,…
GOOD FRIDAY IN UNION WITH JESUS.
March 29. Good Friday. But why did the mob want him to die? A mob is the ugliest creature in the world, indoctrinated but mindless, having lost its inhibitions and even its sense of justice other than mob justice. Do we not see that…
HOLY THURSDAY
March 28. Holy Thursday. Are the days of offering sacrifice according to tradition past? Is there a new way of self-giving to come? They had wanted to make him their leader and king but he had refused. “I am no leader of a rebel army,” he told them. “My way is…
THE PASCHAL MYSTERY AND THE FAMILY
OUR WORLD A FAMILY OF FAMILIES. Since 1994-5, when MARFAM started I have been preparing a Lenten programme every year, sometimes there was a calendar with daily suggestions, sometimes a list of Acts of Love and Sacrifices for people to choose. The Lent and Easter…
HOLY WEEK. JESUS – OUR COMMON JOURNEY TODAY.
Meditation reflections on the spirit of Ubuntu and Fraternity by Toni Rowland. MARFAM 2024. Introduction. The late Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu put it in a nutshell. “Ubuntu speaks of the very essence of being human. We say, ‘Hey, so-and-so has…
STRIVE FOR PEACE THE TRUE ANSWER TO WAR
March 23 Bernadette asked, “ How worried were the Jewish leaders about pacifying the Romans, their oppressors, and did they see Jesus as causing trouble in the political sense and therefore wanted to do away with him? In our day we’ve had a gutful of politics…
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