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FAMILY MATTERS 2011 – DECEMBER THEME: “ETERNAL LIFE, ETERNAL PEACE” CONTENTS From “if only…” to “next year for sure!” MARFAM News SACBC Family Life Desk News and activities   2011 Family Calendar and December theme    2012 “Day by Day with God and Family”   Church documents: Familiaris Consortio + 30 and Africae Munus from the 2nd [...]

This small booklet contains 100 thoughts for 100 days from Advent until Ash Wednesday.

An Angel Christmas

There’s an angel or two in every house

Or three or four or more

They don’t fly in through the window

Or walk in through the door

They use mysterious secret ways

To get access to the house

Introduction
God’s gift of peace to all people of goodwill can only come about through our cooperation and our acts of justice and love to all. In preparing to receive God’s gift of love, Jesus, again at Christmas we should be reconciled with God and with one another.

When you think of Mother Teresa who is now Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, do you think of someone doing something beautiful for God in her own particular way remote from your own particular way? Do you think of her as someone so imbued with love for Jesus that it makes her way unattainable? Or is it possible to see her also as someone to emulate, a model for the way she both loved Jesus and those she was called to serve?

Marriage and Family Growing Together was an awareness raising programme for weeks 21 to 27 of Year B in 2009. A similar programme will be developed for 2012. 2009 Marriage Pack June

FAMILY MATTERS 2011 – NOVEMBER THEME:  “ETERNAL LIFE, ETERNAL PEACE” CONTENTS   Eternal life, eternal peace. MARFAM News SACBC Family Life Desk News    2011 Family Calendar and themes, November   2012 “Day by Day with God and Family”   Parish Family Ministry – Deepening formation   Familiaris Consortio + 30. CORRESPONDENCE   World Meeting of Families Milan 2012. [...]

THE MYSTERY OF WIDOWHOOD
We were once a couple, dedicated to one another and to God
yearning to be one, in good times and in bad.

COMMUNAL PRAYER FOR THE DEAD.
God, Our Father, we remember in prayer
those who have had a special place in our hearts
and in our lives and are now no longer here with us.