LAUDATO SI WEEK 22-29 MAY 2022. DAILY THOUGHTS BY MARFAM
This annual commemorative week is offered at the request of Pope Francis and facilitated overall by the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development. Some resources included are offered through www.laudatosiactionplatform.org family sector and have…
ARE WE LEARNING FROM HOW HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF AGAIN?
May 12. Joan said, “Why are there so many floods all over the world these days? Hurricanes, cyclones, monsoons have got stronger, bigger and more destructive. Climate change is blamed on our human destructive actions towards the environment. It makes me think of…
FREEDOM DAY AND A DOG’S LIFE
Since April 1994 we South Africans like to think and say we are free. Of course in many ways we are but are we all free and how free are we really? In Laudato Si’ LS Pope Francis promotes a new lifestyle where he speaks out against the extreme consumerism which…
EASTER WEEK THURSDAY. THE RISEN LORD IN THE FLESH
April 21. Thursday of Easter week. Bryan, who saw himself as a budding forensic pathologist wondered, “I am fascinated by Jesus and his resurrected body, in fact in the whole issue of spirits. How could Jesus not be a spirit and appear and disappear…
A wholly holy week
It is said “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” I am thinking that holiness too is in the eye of the beholder. I seem to remember that it is not uncommon for disasters of various kinds to happen during a holy season like this week. A headline in the newspaper La…
DOES GOD REALLY LIVE IN OUR HOUSE?
Many years ago when beginning our introduction of a spirituality of the family I wrote one of my poems that started, “Does God really live in our house, the little one wanted to know? Or does he just live in that place down the road where we go to say our hello?…
RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF CREATION
Do animals have rights and do plants? Do they have responsibilities? Or do they have rights to exist and flourish while we, human animals, have the responsibility to ensure their welfare? But what about within the animal kingdom, are there not some inherent norms…
THE CHALLENGE TO LOVE ONE’S ENEMIES
March 12. “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” Nicholas came up with some awkward questions. “Should prisoners have rights, or soldiers on each side in a war? Do rights only apply to good people, or also to those who have done something wrong,…
RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES WITH THE MORAL REGENERATION MOVEMENT
ETHICS, MORALITY, two words that, to some people, mean the same thing and to others not quite, while to everyone they may even appear quite challenging. It is intriguing that Ethics in Greece was translated as Morality in Rome. To my mind, it might…
MARCH DAILY THOUGHTS – RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
MARCH overview. Family Rights and Responsibilities; a Lenten focus. The right to life should be paramount and in some form it is enshrined in most national Constitutions, the UN Declaration of Human Rights and the Church’s Charter of Family Rights. …
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