Tag Archive for ‘marriage’
Contemplating the Truth About Marriage for Life
Part I It is a hard time to be a Catholic who loves God. The loss of Christian culture and the division inside the Church are unexpected realities which add to the difficulty of living a sacramental life. Parish life is shrinking. Those of us who are left are forced to realise just how different […]
On Marriage and Television
Complementarity In Marriage Vatican City, 17 November 2014 (VIS) “Complementarity is a valuable word, with multiple meanings. It may refer to different situations in which one element completes another or compensates for a lack. However, complementarity is much more than this”, said the Pope this morning to the participants in the international interreligious colloquium on […]
Families and the Long Haul
The new Archbishop of Sydney says that the biggest challenge facing the family today is that modernity has forgotten how to love. In an opinion piece on abc.net, Archbishop-elect Anthony Fisher wrote that “modernity struggles with any kind of love that goes beyond feelings”. “People today are less and less willing to commit, for the […]
Pope Francis on Marriage
Recently Pope Francis celebrated the marriage of twenty couples from Rome in St Peter’s Bascilica. The couples, like many others, have been engaged for different lengths of time; some already live together, others have children and others have met within the parish. In his homily Pope Francis spoke of the long and wearisome journey of […]
Tuesday 3 September
ST GREGORY THE GREAT 1 Thessalonians5: 1-6, 9-11, Psalm 27, Luke 4: 31-37 Dealing with evil There are no greater portrayals of the struggle between good and evil than the reports of Jesus casting out unclean spirits. If Jesus had to struggle against evil, it is certain that His followers will also be asked to […]
Thursday 11 July
St. Benedict, abbot Genesis 44:18-21,23-29; 45: 1-5, Ps. 105, Matthew 10: 7-15 Mission first Often by the time we realize the importance of the mission of Jesus in the world our lives are already set on a formal course like marriage. My evangelising must fit into this structure. Jesus says for some it is the […]
June
News from Christchurch is that the Anglican Diocese has gone ahead with a decision to rebuild a Cathedral in the City Square, asking their members to choose from three models. That is not to say that they did not give serious thought to a joint venture with the Catholic Diocese. A recent Synod of the […]
Friday 24 May
MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS Ecclesiasticus 6:5-17, Ps 119, Mark 10:1-12 The trinity of marriage In his explanation about marriage, Jesus points out that the union of a man and woman ‘made one flesh’ is blessed by God. The relationship is thus not just between the couple, but also with God. The couple is consecrated to […]
Do you feel as I do? – the “Me Society”
I wonder how many of you feel as I do these days – a stranger in our own society, an alien in my own land? We grew up in a society which was generally governed by Christian values. We were a united community, concerned for each other. Self-sacrifice was upheld as a virtue. Human life […]
A Foretaste of Heaven
After my last column on the “Lamb of God” as one of the most hallowed Christian phrases for referring to Jesus, I was asked by a reader to explain the phrase “the supper of the Lamb”. The phrase is from the Invitation to Communion when, after genuflecting, the priest takes the host and holds it […]
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