BLESSED BENEDICT DASWA. SOUTH AFRICAN MARTYR
February 1. Blessed Benedict Daswa, South African martyr. If I give away all I have and deliver my body to be burned but have not love I gain nothing. At the time of his murder there was serious division within the community of the village of Mbahe where…
ST JOHN BOSCO. PATRON FOR YOUTH
January 31. St John Bosco. Fr Eugene explained“John Bosco was a saintly man, with a great concern for youth and street kids in particular. He founded congregations of Salesian priests, brothers and sisters, the Salesians for boys and Daughters of Mary to care…
LOVE IS THE GREATEST OF GIFTS FROM GOD
January 30. 4th Sunday C. Love is patient, love is kind.” “Only Selfless Love, Jesus shows the way,” are some of the words of a special hymn song, one of thousands of songs of love composed over the centuries, most of us having our own favourites. Some speak of…
CALLING LEADERS TO ACCOUNT
January 29. Nathan said to David, “The Lord says, ‘You have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ A discussion about immorality and injustice in leaders was held in groups who continued it in families at home….
GROWING GREEN
January 28. One project that the parish pastoral team was considering was to invite families to have, at least, a small vegetable garden or some fruit trees, even in an urban area. Farming has been an important way of life for thousands of years. Large commercial…
PRESERVING THE WORLD FOR OUR CHILDREN
January 27. Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house?” All the families grappled with the question, “How important today is the ideal of working for an inheritance for our children and to secure their future? Or is the cost of living so high and are our resources…
EFFICIENT FARMING AN ECOLOGICAL NECESSITY
January 26. A sower went out to sow. The new Care of Creation parish representative spoke up. “Land and expropriation is a political “hot potato” today as well as an economic one. Churches don’t always get involved, but on behalf of farmers, workers…
BEGINNING YOUR ECO-FAMILY-FRIENDLY CAMPAIGN.
Within the broader theme OUR WORLD A FAMILY OF FAMILIES, MARFAM’s January theme has been BEGINNINGS. For a start I asked how and when does a family begin? We still believe that ideally a family begins at marriage with a couple who then, as the saying goes, “start a…
CALL TO CONVERSION. ST PAUL AND EVERYONE
January 25. Conversion of St Paul. ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” “I don’t know many Jews,” Anthea said, “but I suppose I know plenty of Gentiles. In fact I wonder if most of us Catholic Christians are like those Gentiles…
SATANISM AND THE DEVIL’S WORK
January 24. Jesus replied, “How can Satan cast out Satan? When it appeared that satanism existed in the school and the community the principal called in the parish priest as well as the police. Both were to question the learners to get to the bottom…
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