Author: danielafsp

Communication and Synodality: Laboratory for a New Relationship

On 7 March 2024, personalities from the Holy See, journalists, and professors in this particular sector debated during a Webinar/Lab organized by a network of communicators and media professionals to explore the topic in the wake of the Pope’s magisterium. The last Synod opened the doors of the Church to create and facilitate laboratories. After… Read more »

Palm Sunday 2024

In the end, we have to get there. There is no scent of spring in the air yet, no empty tomb, no newly-minted sun to glitter on our incredulous tears. We have to get there. And it is an uphill journey. The wind pushes the clouds into a threatening mass overhead, turning the sky the…

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Grandparents’ Prayer: “Don’t abandon us to loneliness”

“Do not cast me off in my old age.” This is the theme of the Fourth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. This year, the World Day falls on 28 July, the Sunday closest to 26 July, the day on which the Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, the grandparents… Read more »

Fifth Sunday of Lent 2024

The statement on this page of the Gospel is vehement and its effect is like that of a stone dropped in a pond: Philip goes to find Andrew, and Andrew and Philip seek out Jesus. It seems to me that this is the only possible answer to give the Greeks. Do you want to see…

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Meeting on the theme of fragility

Held on 23 February in the FSP Treviso Book Center, the meeting was sponsored by Cittadinanzattiva Treviso in collaboration with our local Pauline Book Center and District House. The theme of the encounter, “Fragility: ideas and facts, for the inclusion of fragile people, consisted of a reflection on human frailties triggered by the FSP initiative…

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March 2024

Adele – Maria Giuditta TASSINARI / Teresa – Maria Teresa NALESSO / Akiko – Maria Celeste NAGAHAMA / Beatrice Emma MOSSIO / Livia – Maria Mercedes MASTROSTEFANO / Adelia MOREIRA LOPES / Alie – Mary Giovanna MAROTTIKUDI / Carmela – Maria Alberta GIUZIO

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International Women’s Day: An Ecumenical and Interreligious Online Gathering

Entitled “Women Cultivating Peace and Nurturing Encounter,” this event, held on March 5th, was organized by the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations (WUCWO), in collaboration with the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. This virtual gathering served as a commemoration of International Women’s Day 2024, bringing together women of diverse faiths from across the… Read more »

Fourth Sunday of Lent 2024

  LIFT UP YOUR gaze (JOHN 3:14-21) Today’s Gospel is a description of light tapping at a window. The light filtering through the pane urges us to make a choice: do we want to take the high road and go forth, or do we prefer to hide behind a wall? The impassioned call we hear… Read more »

The School of Synodality on The Mission of Women in the Church

Through its World Women’s Observatory, the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations (UMOFC) launched a new initiative on 27 February 2024. Known as The School of Synodality: Women’s Mission in the Synodal Church, the project began with a series of Webinars held from 27-29 February in Spanish, English and French, with the primary objective of…

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12th Apostolate Assembly

The words of politics and the clarification of their function were the theme of the 12th Apostolate Assembly (February 19-20, 2024), which saw the participation (both in person and online) of sisters and laity engaged in the publishing apostolate. Andrea Grillo, professor of Theology and Philosophy, highlighted how in the “society of dignity” even the… Read more »