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columns2021

Strengthening marriage and family

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Post date July 25, 2021
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Amoris Laetitia

By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & AMMR

“My hands used to be sweaty, but Grandma didn’t mind. She would hold on to my sweaty hand as we walked; chatting with me about what I had done at school that day. I always felt safe in her care.”

As my niece spoke, I could still visualise her holding on to her Grandma’s hand as she walked her home from school as a child.

This week our Archdiocese is observing Marriage and Family Life. Today, July 25, we also observe the first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, which Pope Francis instituted to take place each year on the fourth Sunday in July, close to the feast of Sts Joachim and Anne (Monday, July 26), the grandparents of Jesus.

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columns2019

Love and marriage

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Post date August 4, 2019

**by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI**

“A marriage is a moving process, a living thing, and if it stops being fed with these existential nutrients (love, communication, respect and trust), it will finally expire.” —Tim Lott.

My deceased father would have been 94 on July 22. My mother is also deceased. Their mixed marriage in the 1940s was frowned upon. He told his parents: “You taught me that God resides in everyone. He resides in Ruby, and I want to marry her.”

They were married for more than 55 years. Like all marriages, they had to work at theirs. Marriages have their highs and lows. The challenge is how to deal with both.

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columns2013

Strengthening marriage and family life

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Post date January 18, 2013

“On the threshold of his public life Jesus performs his first sign – at his mother’s request – during a wedding feast. The Church attaches great importance to Jesus’ presence at the wedding at Cana. She sees in it the confirmation of the goodness of marriage and the proclamation that thenceforth marriage will be an efficacious sign of Christ’s presence” (CCC, 1613).

I remember as a child how I loved to listen to my mother reading stories from the bible to us, her seven children. The Wedding at Cana (John 2:1-12 – today’s Gospel) was one of my favourites.

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2012

Archbishop Harris’ Gospel Reflection October 7 – Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)

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Post date October 5, 2012

Gospel: Mk 10:2-12

The Pharisees approached Jesus and asked, “Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?” They were testing him. He said to them in reply, “What did Moses command you?” They replied, “Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce and dismiss her.” But Jesus told them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

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columns2010

Use your gifts to build the common good

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Post date July 29, 2010

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

With the rise of secularism, sadly, many fail to acknowledge the fact, as Pope Benedict XVI reminds us in Charity in Truth, that all that we have is “gift” from God.

We live in a world in which individualism, selfishness, greed and materialism lead many to believe that what is important in this life is storing up wealth here on earth and keeping it all so that they can have a good time – like the rich man in today’s Gospel (Luke 12:13-21) who plans to build bigger barns to store up his “treasures” here on earth and then “take things easy, eat, drink, have a good time”.

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