Couples For Christ Foundation for Family and Life

The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity, choosing right over wrong, ethics over convenience, and truth over popularity.

Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for THERE IS NEVER A WRONG TIME TO DO THE RIGHT THING.

Articles from the Servant General

Lessons of Job

Lessons from Lamentations

On Mary

On Servant Leadership

On The Triune God

On Worship

Our Theme for 2010

Supplemental Lenten Reflections

The Way Forward

Pope Affirms Our Theme: On the eve of our community conference, the pope "affirms" our theme. God is the great awesome Almighty, and our proper response is awe and humility.

BECOME HUMBLE IN ORDER TO RECOGNIZE THE GREATNESS OF GOD

VATICAN CITY, 6 JAN 2010 (VIS) - In the Vatican Basilica at 10 a.m. today, the Pope presided at Mass for the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord.

In his homily Benedict XVI commented on the readings from the Book of Isaiah and from the Gospel of St. Matthew, explaining that the Magi "were not the last but the first of the great procession of people who, through all ages of history, were able to recognize the message of the star, to follow the paths indicated by Sacred Scripture, and thus to find Him Who is apparently weak and fragile but Who, in fact, has the power to bring the greatest and most profound joy to the human heart".

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THE NEW YEAR THAT HAS COME

2009 has gone, 2010 is upon us. This year we have another opportunity to do God’s will, to be His instruments of renewal. This year we again look to living out our calling, that of being an evangelistic and missionary community, proclaiming Christ to the world. This is in accordance with God’s eternal plan.

According to God’s plan, He sent His Son Jesus into the world. The angel of the Lord told Mary that the son she will bear is to be named “Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” (Mt 1:21). Jesus was “the name given him by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.” (Lk 2:21). In like manner, according to the eternal plan of God for proclaiming His Son to the world, He raised CFC.

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THE YEAR THAT WAS

2009 was another eventful and fruitful year in the life and mission of CFC-FFL. Our work continues to grow. Following are some significant highlights.

CFC-FFL was established in 4 new dioceses in the Philippines, making a total of 41 dioceses. Our work was also started in 5 new countries, making a total of 65 countries.

This year CFC-FFL was given official recognition as a National Private Association of the Lay Faithful, by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, through its Episcopal Commission on the Laity.
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Only Two Kids?
“We would rather live in grass huts with our morality than in skyscrapers among homosexuals”
By Martyn Drakard

KAMPALA, Uganda, December 3, 2009 (MercatorNet.com) - A three-day international conference on family planning took place in the Ugandan capital of Kampala last month. More than 1,000 health workers from 59 countries applauded a US$12 million grant from the Americans for launching a family planning drive in Uganda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Kenya, as well as Indonesia and Pakistan. Everyone was relieved that President Obama had rescinded George Bush’s Mexico City policy which had banned funding agencies which provided abortion services or counselling.

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40 Days for Life

PEP (Prayer & fasting, Education, Participation) has, since the start of our Pro-Life ministry four years ago, been our action cry in CFCFFL USA. This has been our thrust in leading our members to grow in mind, heart and spirit in responding to this most challenging call of our time - being Pro-Life. Although Pro-life should really be integral in the lives of Catholics, but sad to say that for some time now, many Catholics have been influenced by the onslaught of materialism, hedonism, secularism in the world, and thus have also become calloused to accept liberal views in their own lives, and even developing a tolerance for something as downright evil as abortion.

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Won't Do Abortion, RN Sues Mt. Sinai

by Edmund M. Silvestre

A Filipino Catholic nurse has been swamped with words of encouragement and support after suing The Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan for allegedly forcing her to assist in a late-term abortion against her will and religion under the threat of disciplinary action, including possible termination and loss of her license.

The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) filed the civil lawsuit in the New York Eastern District Court in Brooklyn on July 21 on behalf of senior nurse Catherina Lorena Cenzon -DeCarlo, 35, of Brooklyn. The complaint claims that despite her repeated objections, the Baguio City-born nurse and niece of Baguio City Bishop Carlito Cenzon, was forced by hospital administrators to honor a last-minute summon and participate in the procedure "which dismembered a pre-born child in the 22nd week of gestation."

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RECONCILIATION AND REUNIFICATION?

Now that CFC-IC has let go of GK, people ask: can the two CFCs now get back together?
First, it has to be clarified if indeed CFC-IC and GK have split. Both sides claim that they have not and in fact that they will intensify collaboration.
Second, the crisis and split were not all about the veering away of GK. Perhaps the even greater factor that caused the split was the unchristian actions of the IC.
Thirdly, I have always maintained that we are open to reconciliation and even reunification, if that is what the Lord wills. But if it is to be of the Lord, then it has to be based on truth and justice.

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ALIVE IN CHRIST

Choosing Right or Wrong

By: Ferdie Gayos

Murder, stealing, cheating is wrong and most people accept these as wrong. But, how do you know if things are right or wrong? Is it because someone told you or you have deduced your conclusion from the dictates of your conscience?

Our Catholic Faith teaches us that in order to determine if things or an action is right or wrong, we must appeal to an authority. This authority is the ‘natural law.’ Natural law is as strong and binding as physical laws such as gravity and energy. They do not depend on our interpretation or feelings, they exist independently. As the law of gravity was true and it is still true today. We change but truth does not.

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Servant General Box

"Overcoming Evil with Good"

"One Year After"

"The Coming of the Saviour"

"Ushering In The Year 2009"

"Disobeying Jesus"

"Weaving It Altogether"

"Two Years After"

Other Important Documents

CFCFFL (Canada) Certificate of Affiliation

Appointment of Fr. Sherwin Holandez