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…
THE WAYS OF WAR AND AN END TO WARS
March 22. When young Jerry saw the name of the prophet Jeremiah he wanted to share. “I don’t understand it all,” he said, “ but my prophet seems to be asking for revenge because he is persecuted. He even calls God a warrior who will definitely win. I do like that,…
HUMAN RIGHTS DAY SOUTH AFRICA
March 21. Human Rights Day. Fr Obed reminded the congregation that Human Rights Day is not just a national secular event but should have a religious aspect too, especially as the country is so close to the elections and is also commemorating an important…
THE MANY FACES OF WATER WEEK. HUMAN RIGHTS AND FAMILY RIGHTS
MARFAM’S FAMILY WEEKLY E-NEWSLETTER 20 MARCH 2024 2024 is the 30th anniversary of the UN INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE FAMILY. Its chosen theme FAMILIES AND CLIMATE. Climate change would be meaningless without a focus on water. St Francis in his Canticle of the…
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