Cardinal wants families to show love, respect, commitment

By LORRAINE JIMAL
THE practice of love, respect and support is important in families because good things happen in married life, Archbishop of Port Moresby Cardinal Sir John Ribat says.
“Good things happen in the family, children are born, family show love respect and support for each other and that is what it supposed to be,” he said. Ribat said this was a time for parents to commit themselves to children ensuring their school fees and other necessary things were ready for the school.
“My word to the family and parents are, they must respect one and other, show love to the children at this time were children will be getting ready for school,” he said.
Ribat said it was not easy to manage family, but, it was their responsibilities as parents.
He said Jesus supported marriage because “the Gospel of John 2: 1-11 is about how Jesus turned water into wine in Cana. On the third day, a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee”.
“Jesus’s mother was there and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding,” he said. “When the wine was gone, Jesus mother said to him, they have no more wine and Jesus turn the water into wine, though his time were yet to come.”
Ribat said Jesus was at the wedding party and Mary, his mother, noticed that they were running out of wine and she told Jesus about it, and Jesus responded that his time was not here yet.
“However, Jesus had so much respect for his mother, he turned water into wine,” he said.
Ribat said that showed how respectful and supportive Jesus was to marriages and family.
“Jesus taught us how much respect he had for marriages and family when he turned water into wine at the wedding in Cana.”