Importance of Marriage and Family

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The institution of marriage is very important to mankind, it is the civilised order for a male and a female that makes them different from other living species.          

The Creation

Humans are the unique creatures on planet Earth, a world habited with many complex living beings coexisting to sustain one another. Though we have bridged the gender gap and shed our discrimination against women, I wonder about the physical, mental, and physiological differences between a man and a woman. Medical sciences are still researching and finding inferences for the human anatomy, a spiritual concept that can be defined only by the Creator?

Year C The Holy Family

Si 3:2-6. 12-14; Col 3:12-21; Luke 2:4-52

We celebrate today the feast of Holy Family. The feast was established in 1921 by Pope Benedict XV.  This feast is meant to be “a day for Christian families to examine themselves by comparing their way of life with that of

Respect for Elders

Elders have to be respected all the time. We all agree with it. When we think of giving respect for elders, immediately think of respecting them like our parents. It is not enough to respect them like our parents because now a day some don’t respect their parents at all.

Become like a Little Child

A child plays relaxed when a parent or a guardian is at its reach. It will confirm now and then of their presence and will continue to be relaxed. If a dog comes or any similar fearful situation arises, it will run to the

Shepherd in the Family

We all like to be secure. Shepherd makes sheep secure with love, care and protection. Sheep must look at shepherd and see its love, listen to its guidance and follow its instructions.

Jesus is the shepherd and we are his sheep.

Family Life

Family is the foundation of the society. This is the base of the world. The future of a person has to be formulated in the family.

Once we know the family of a person we can more or less calculate the character of the person. If a child is not of good character we say it is the fault of the parents. Teenage is a time of change of character. They try their level best to get their desires or ambitions achieved. The more they achieve their selfish motives, the more they try their luck again for the same. Some continue to follow the same pattern in their later life also. These persons will become burden for others.

In family life, one has to become more conscious of their obligations than the rights.

Love

Love makes one feel very comfortable.

When I move away from love, I create a vacuum within myself that is quickly filled with negative emotions, such as anger, resentment, jealousy, bitterness, and frustration. Love, on the other hand, is a combination of positive feelings of tolerance, understanding, forgiveness and gratitude. I can begin by loving myself, others, and life in general.

Family Life

A happy Christian family has Christ as its centre and his teachings are the family guidelines. St. Paul enumerates some of them, such as “mercy, kindness, patience and forgiveness” (Col 3:12). The Christian values which must mark out a Christian family are summarised in more concrete terms by Dr. Paul Kelly, an orthopaedic surgeon and family counsellor, as “The Seven Cs”. They are:

-First, Commitment: a lifelong caring for the other, no matter what happens.

-Second, Communication: a willingness to take time to listen, dialogue and share one’s feelings.

-Third, Compatibility: an ability to get along, adjust and be flexible. [Understand and accept each other.]

-Fourth, Compassion: a capacity to understand weakness and sympathise with failure.

-Fifth, Confession: the readiness to say, “I am sorry”, to be reconciled and forgiven.

-Six, Conviviality: a sense of humour, to laugh at oneself and make others at oneself and to smile.

-Seventh, Children: one’s own, adopted, grandchildren or those of close relatives, with whom life and love can be shared.