When Jesus hears that Lazarus is sick, he remains right where he is for another two days. He does not race to the side of his friend. He is the Lord of time, so it is he who decides when to move. When he reaches the tomb of Lazarus, Martha says sorrowfully: Lord, if you…
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The FSP community of Arezzo organized two special days around the Word of God: 13 March in their book center, and 14 March in a local parish. The theme of the book center encounter was Exodus, as an event and as a book. Three names, all female, gave color and warmth to the evening. The…
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He’s such an annoying man. There he sits by the side of the road: a blind beggar who is nevertheless terribly alive, so alive that he pierces our gaze, so alive that he forces us to respond, so alive that it makes us hurt. Why is he like that? Jesus, however, sees the mendicant in …
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Dearest Sisters, On March 15 we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the pontifical approval of the Constitutions and, therefore, of our Institute. With Maestra Thecla, we praise and thank the Lord “because, with the certainty that comes to us from the official recognition of the Church, we can say, ‘We are in the will of God…
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In the warm midday silence, a solitary woman slips toward the town well, a site depicted in the Bible as a place for meeting and socializing with others. But at this point in the life of the Samaritan woman, the local well is simply a place to fill her water pitcher at a time when …
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This year, 5 February, the anniversary of the death of Prima Maestra Thecla, was a very special day for the FSPs of Nigeria, because it was on that very date ten years ago that Sr. Teresa Marcazzan arrived in Abuja to launch the FSP publishing apostolate in that country. In recent years, our sisters have… Read more »
I Dream of a Poetic Church And he was transfigured before them, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. I am always struck by the simplicity of transfiguration, which seems to me to be the height of poetic expression and reminds me of the touching experience of the “art”… Read more »
On 5 February, the anniversary of the death of Venerable Thecla Merlo, co-foundress of the Daughters of St. Paul, the FSPs of India experienced a very joyful event: the inauguration and blessing of the Province’s new Book and Media Center in Lucknow. For the Diocese of Lucknow, the opening of a center for religious books… Read more »
Bonaria – Pierangela USAI / Teresa – Bianca Rosa MAGLIANO / Loreta – Maria Irene FARAGLIA / Teresa BELTRANO
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Sowing Hope for the Planet is an initiative promoted by the International Union of Women Superiors General (UISG) and its related institutions to put Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’ into concrete action by sharing ideas, formation, and working in synergy to care for our sick planet. Established in 2018, the project’s goal is not simply…
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