Couples Must Be Each Other’s Servants
A couple is getting married. Will they look for the other to make them happy, or will they seek to always serve one another? Rob & Mahadi Buthelezi examine the reasons couples want to...
Category: Marriage
50 Years for Patrick and Diana Budd!
Patrick and Diana Budd of Pinetown, Durban, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with a thanksgiving service and renewal of vows. Their golden anniversary service was conducted by Fr Brian Southward, retired parish priest at...
Love Wins For SA/NZ Couple Celebrating 40 Years
Warren and Gloria Firth are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary in their home in Christchurch, New Zealand, where they had to move due to apartheid laws. They met in 1978 in London. He was...
65 Years for Victor & Maureen Blair!
Victor and Maureen (née Campbell) Blair have celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. They were married on May 8, 1954, in Emmanuel cathedral in Durban. More Stories: Cardinal: Couples Can be Better at Marriage Prep...
The Genes You Wear
By Mahadi and Rob Buthelezi – Who am I and who are you? What is your make-up, your DNA? Or, put differently, what genes do you wear? In our family ministry, we put...
50 Years for Robin and Jennifer Vezasie!
Robin and Jennifer Vezasie of St Anne’s parish in Sydenham in Durban celebrated their golden jubilee of marriage—50 years to the day they were married at Emmanuel cathedral in 1968 by Fr Joseph Theobald...
After Divorce, Have Compassion
Marriage is not easy, and sometimes it simply fails. Tshiamo Stephen Takongwa, a marriage counsellor, argues that Church and society should be compassionate towards divorcees, helping them to heal. Summer! It’s that time of...
Marriage Preparation at St Peter Claver Parish
St Peter Claver parish in Pimville, Soweto, presented couples who had completed their marriage preparation course with certificates. Parish priest Fr Tom Segami OMI and Fr Mahlomola Skoto OMI blessed all the couples. Thato...
Pope: Fidelity is for Every Vocation, Not Just Marriage
The Sixth Commandment’s mandate against adultery is a call to fidelity that applies not only to married couples, but to all Christians called to love others through their vocation, Pope Francis said. Married men...
Pope Calls for Stronger Preparation for the Sacrament of Marriage
Every heart longs for unconditional love and fidelity, Pope Francis said. “Christ reveals authentic love,” the pope said during his weekly general audience. “He is the faithful friend who welcomes us even when we...
‘Mercy and Love Can Heal Wounded Marriages’
God wants couples to live out their marriage faithfully and not abandon hope when things go awry, Pope Francis said. “A love with mutual self-giving sustained by Christ’s grace” is what allows couples to...
Twenty-Seventh Sunday of the Year Reflection
By Fr John Allen Green OFM Gospel: Mark 10:2-16 – And Pharisees approached and tested him, asking him whether it is lawful for a man to divorce his wife. But in reply he said to...
