Author: danielafsp

Third Sunday of Lent 2024

  MAKE  love ESPLODERE (JOHN 2:13-25) With the determination of a child learning to walk, Jesus attempts in today’s Gospel to set a new course, reversing the old one. It means refusing to turn God’s sacred dwelling into a marketplace and, instead, allowing the Divine One to emerge and fertilize even the marketplace. This reversal… Read more »

MADAGASCAR
New Pauline Book Center

The inauguration of our new Librairie Md Paoly in Tamatave (now known as Toamasina, Madagascar’s most important port), took place on 20 January 2024, on the eve of the Sunday of the Word. The date was chosen to mark this ecclesial event and also to remind us of our mission as Daughters of St. Paul… Read more »

February 2024

Fumiko – Maria Luisa YAMAMOTO / Mary – Marina VADAKAPURACAL / Bruna PEZZATO / Narcisa – Francesca MARIANO / Enedina – Maria Rosario GUTIERREZ LOBETE / Josefina BASURTO MACIEL / Luigina – Maria Augusta BALDINI

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PAKISTAN
60th Anniversary of the Birth to Heaven of Ven. Thecla Merlo

On 5 Feb. 2024, our Divine Master community in Lahore, together with our young women in formation, our collaborators, and our Pauline Cooperators and their families, celebrated with great devotion and joy the 60th anniversary of Venerable Thecla Merlo’s birth to heaven. The day began with a consideration of the characteristics of Maestra Thecla, which… Read more »

KOREA
FSP–SSP Meeting in Seoul: the joy of sharing the same dreams

Fr. Dominic Soliman (Superior General of the Society of St. Paul) and Sr. Anna Caiazza (Superior General of the Daughters of St. Paul) left Rome together for Korea and are now making their Fraternal Visits to the members of their Institutes in that country. It was a very meaningful departure, reminiscent of the days when… Read more »

Second Sunday of Lent 2024

  OH FOR A LITTLE   light! (Mark 9:2-10) We seem to hear Peter demanding in his heart: Why so much radiance, Lord? Why dazzle us with all this light when it will come to an end? How can we bear the burden of darkness after experiencing the caressing light of your transfiguring beauty? After… Read more »

ITALY
International Conference for the Ongoing Formation of Priests

From 6-10 February 2024, the Dicastery for the Clergy sponsored an International Conference for the Ongoing Formation of Priests, entitled “Fan into a flame the gift of God that is in you” (2 Tim. 1:6): The beauty of being disciples today: a unique, integral, communal and missionary formation.” The encounter was held in the Paul…

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First Sunday of Lent 2024

The temptation described in today’s Gospel is a laceration carved into the flesh of Jesus. The forty days mentioned is not a time frame but a sign of what will accompany him all his life, from his time in the desert to the Garden of Olives. He is tempted to believe that the face of …

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January 2024

Assunta MENEGAT /  Carmela – Maria Bernarda MAIORANO / Rosa – Maria Filipina GIGLIOTTI

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PAKISTAN
Celebrating the Sunday of the Word

On 28 Jan 2024, the Daughters of St. Paul of the Karachi Archdiocese joyfully celebrated the Sunday Dedicated to the Word of God. A catechist gave a stirring introduction to the Liturgy, inviting the faithful to gather at the entrance of the church and then re-enter it in procession with the Holy Bible borne aloft… Read more »