Author: danielafsp

MADAGASCAR
Disseminating the Bread of Truth

Fr. Alberione said: “The Bread of Truth must be shared with every human being.” The Daughters of St. Paul of Antananarive, Madagascar are putting these words of the Founder into concrete practice through their divulgation of the FSP 2018 Liturgical Calendar. The young sisters of the FSP formation community in Antananarive recently visited 8 parishes… Read more »

United States/ESC
23rd Anniversary of the FSP Christmas Concerts

One of the many activities of the Daughters of St. Paul of the United States/ESC Province during the Advent season is a nation-wide Christmas Concert Tour. This year the initiative, which holds a special place in the sisters’ evangelizing activities, was held in 10 different cities across the country, from Boston to Los Angeles. The… Read more »

Third Sunday of Advent 2017

Allowing His Mystery To Shine Through Having reached the halfway point on our journey toward Christmas, we now celebrate the day on which we view every event from the perspective of joy. But if hope does not shine through that joy, then it is sterile folly. “Rejoice!” This exhortation is an important part of the… Read more »

Fides News Agency: 90 years of Service to the Church

Fides News Agency, founded in 1927 by the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, is the first Missionary Agency of the Church and among the first agencies in the world to use the press to disseminate information about the Church’s missionary activity. It also encourages animation and cooperation with this activity through vocational… Read more »

ITALY
More Books, More Freedom 2017

Already in its 16th edition, the annual Book Fair (entitled: More Books, More Freedom) for small and medium-size publishing houses took place from 6-10 December at La Nuvola Convention Center, Rome. Over 500 publishing houses–100 more than last year–participated in the 5-day Fair, which also featured the presence of many foreign and Italian authors. The… Read more »

Second Sunday of Advent 2017

To See the Invisible Continuing our Advent journey, let us now enter into what seems to be a paradox in the spiritual life, namely: to “see the Invisible.” Since the Second Sunday of Advent presents us with the voice as a basic element in helping us perceive what is imperceptible to our senses, it might… Read more »

FOCSIV International Volunteer Awards Bestowed on Three Women

Volunteer work as a commitment lived above all “in the first person, in the feminine”–this is what motivated FOCSIV to bestow its International Volunteer Awards this year on three women: Anna Dedola, manager of the Cope Project in Iringa, Tanzania; Khadija Tirha, a Civil Service volunteer in Italy’s Piedmont region, and Alganesc Fessaha, president of… Read more »

ROMANIA
FSPs at the Gaudeamus Book Fair

The Daughters of St. Paul of Romania had the opportunity to joyfully participate in the Gaudeamus International Book Fair, held in the country’s capital, Bucharest, from 22-26 November 2017. Because it is the nation’s most important book fair, Gaudeamus is usually attended each year by hordes of people from many different places and cities. Although… Read more »

November 2017

NOME DATA LUOGO DI TUMULAZIONE  Pasqua Giuseppina – Maria Teresina PREGNOLATO 21/11/2017 Alba (Italia)  Giulia – Lucia MONTERUMICI 21/11/2017 Caracas (Venezuela)  Michie – Maria Fedele MASHIKO 16/11/2017 Tokyo (Giappone)  Maria Rosaria MALZONE 28/11/2017  Federica GONZALEZ 27/11/2017 Taipei (Taiwan)

First Sunday of Advent 2017

Go Against the Tide During this Advent season, let us meditate on the way in which God enters the lives of human beings: how he is incarnated and born on this earth and in the life of each one of us. Contemplating his descent into the human heart, we note that God reveals to us… Read more »