Christian Family Life Communique #1

Submitted by: Dodie Bond

While the Lord’s coming is getting ever closer. It is also the time for reports. The dates are:

Parish report to Diocesan – December 15th
Diocesan report to Provincial – February 15th
Provincial report to National – March 15th

Looking forward to seeing what your areas have accomplished in your Diocesan report.

Please encourage your parish Christian Family Life Chairpersons to look to their local and Catholic Newspapers etc of items of importance and to present them along with other items of interest at their meetings for discussion.

While I was growing up divorce was not so common, abortion was illegal, same sex couples where not mentioned and I never heard of assisted suicide, and the idea of a marriage was only between a man and a women and for sure I don’t remember ever hearing any one talk about embryonic cell research. How the world has changed…Where did the morals and God’s teachings go? We must protect our faith and stand by it.

It is great to live in a free country is it not? We are so blessed to be able to practice our faith and that we should be faithful to the teachings of Christ and our Church. We must keep our families strong in our Catholic faith and respect the authority of our Pope. We have a lot of outside influences and that makes it difficult for us to remain faithful with the various pressures all around us. This is why it is so important to put prayer first in our lives and within the family because prayer gives us time to be still and silent. Not only does it help us to rest with our Lord Jesus Christ it gives us time to really listen to what he is saying to us.

Our faith binds us together as family…So with that I wish you my family the Blessings of Christ on this Christmas Season. Keep Christ in Christmas and in your family. Peace be with you all.