Author: danielafsp

December 2021

Helen – Mary Louise ODDI / Maria Ana – Maria Angelica MICHELS / Herminia – Maria De Lourdes BERRA MERLO / Catarina Zelinda – Andreia BERTA

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Epiphany 2022

Moving toward new horizons Matthew 2:1-12 Human beings are not completed works but perfectible ones–we are works in progress. Thus it is necessary to move ahead so as to discover new horizons, refusing to be satisfied with pre-established truths, sterile dogmatic definitions, and starchy catechisms. The Jewish tradition says: “Nothing is written once and for… Read more »

UNITED STATES
Read the Bible with me!

When the Pauline Family launched its Year of the Bible, Sister Anne Joan Flanagan of the US-ESC province felt strongly inspired to read the Word of God from cover to cover–but not by herself. On 24 November 2020 she sent the following invitation to her 28,000 Twitter followers: “Read the Bible with me!” Her…

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KENYA
Catechetical Animations

To celebrate the Pauline Bible Year, Paulines Publications Africa organized formation meetings for catechists on the theme: The Bible and Catechesis. The animations were held in the dioceses of Maralal, Isiolo and Marsabit–three of the poorest and most marginalized Kenyan dioceses. Due to economic problems, catechists here lack the essential tools they need for their… Read more »

Mary, Mother of God 2022

Mother of the bewildered Lk. 2:16-21 Virgin Mother, daughter of your Son, in whom your Creator did not disdain to become your creature” (Dante). Mary is the mother of those who find it hard to understand what is happening. With the serenity of a person permeated by love, she became her Son’s disciple. We know… Read more »

Technologies, peace and human development in the Post-Covid World

On 9 December, a meeting was held in the Vatican to highlight moral and ethical issues regarding the impact of today’s new technologies in the post-pandemic world. The theme developed was “Promoting Integral Human Development and Peace in the Digital Age. New Technologies in the Post-Covid World.” The meeting was organized by the Dicastery for… Read more »

Letter of Christmas 2021

Sr. Anna Caiazza, Superior General

Dearest Sisters and young women in formation, Our Advent journey leads us once again to the grotto of Bethlehem, where the mystery we contemplate each year takes on flesh and blood: “A child is born for us, a son has been given to us” (Is. 9:5). The eternal Word of the Father, “he whom the…

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Christmas 2021

Incarnating God in the World Luke 2:1-14 At Christmas, we remember our supreme existential task, the one that defines our reason for living: to incarnate the good by becoming more human. Yes, to incarnate the good, or–if we want to give flesh to God since God is the highest Good–then we can say: to incarnate… Read more »

ITALY
Messina: Donating a Book to Prisoners

After its success in Brescia, Naples, Udine, Lodi, Novara and Palermo, the project to donate books to prisoners for Christmas is also being carried out this year by our FSP book center in Messina. The Caritas Foundation of the Archdiocese of Messina, the D’arteventi Association and the Chaplains of the Messina and Barcellona Pozzo di… Read more »

ITALY
Donate a Book: It’s Food for the Soul!

To celebrate the 5th World Day of the Poor, 14 November 2021, the FSP Book Center of Treviso, in collaboration with the diocesan branch of Caritas, organized an initiative entitled: Donate a Book: It’s Food for the Soul! Customers were able to choose titles from a display case set up for the occasion. The books…

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