Author: danielafsp

Christmas 2024

Christmas is walking in the night but wrapped in light, a light that does not come from the sanctity of perfection but from the profound humanity of the shepherds. They are outside the realm of power, they live outside the lights of Jerusalem, they are nocturnal beings, often haunted by mistakes or due to feelings… Read more »

Christmas of the Lord 2024

Letter of Sr. Anna Caiazza, Superior General

Christmas of the Lord 2024 / Holy Year 2025 Dearest Sisters and young women in formation, Considering the events unfolding around the world, I must admit I hesitated to write about Christmas this year—a Christmas marred by rockets, drones, and bombs sowing death and destruction, even in the land of Jesus Himself As witnesses, we… Read more »

ROMANIA
Celebratory year: 30 years of Pauline presence

The community of the Daughters of Saint Paul in Bucharest has concluded a year-long celebration marking 30 years of Pauline apostolic presence in Romania. Thanks and praise to the Most Holy Trinity for the gift of the “pioneer” sisters, for the sisters who have enriched the community in recent years, for the superiors who have… Read more »

Fourth Sunday of Advent 2024

Because you have prepared a “body for me” and it is not what we expected, thus, we need to learn to listen to the Body of Christ. I would like to shout out with freedom and joy to those who are still slaves to a thousand fears: the Divine took on flesh. And a body… Read more »

ROME
Back to Rome More Books More Freedom

The Measure of the World is the theme of More Books, More Freedom 2024. Measuring the world with words, numbers, steps, smiles, distances, colours, clouds, and dreams. More Books, More Freedom is the National Fair for Small and Medium-sized Publishers, promoted and organized by the Italian Publishers Association. It takes place in Rome in December…

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Third Sunday of Advent 2024

Abandon violence, do not mistreat life, never extort anything, for any reason, don’t take anything from anyone. Learn not to force life, let it come, let it flow, then smile gratefully and be amazed. Nothing is needed, nothing more than this, only life as it unfolds. I don’t want to do anything Lord, I will… Read more »

The Bible: Search the Scriptures in Arabic

A new version of The Bible was presented on November 26th in Rome, at the Basilica of Mary Queen of the Apostles in Montagnola. Search the Scriptures in Arabic, is a St. Paul Edition. A few thousand copies were donated to the Pope to be given to Arabic-speaking Christians in difficult situations. A climate of…

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Second Sunday of Advent 2024

I thought I would find you in perfection, but instead I found you in the unborn parts of me. Where I don’t love like a man, where I don’t decide like a man, where I’m not free like a man. You wait for me, you take me by the hand, you dive with me into… Read more »

ITALY
BookCity Milan

The thirteenth annual conference of BookCity Milan took place from the 11th to the 17th of November. It is an event dedicated to books and literature promoted by the Cultural Department of the City of Milan and the Association of BOOKCITYMILAN, with the support of the Ministry of Culture. There were 1,597 events with over… Read more »