In order to help the families of Faisalabad prepare for Christmas, the Daughters of St. Paul of the Tecla Merlo community located in the diocese organized times of faith-sharing and Christmas caroling during the Advent season. The sisters led the prayer encounters for the first three weeks of Advent, while the last week was led… Read more »
Today we celebrate Mary as Mother of God. But her greatness does not lie in this. Instead, it lies in her readiness to embrace God’s work within her. What makes a creature great is the ability to recognize him/herself as a “field” in which God can work. Mary, who is “blessed among all women,” a…
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The new website www.alberione.org is now online, with a new graphic design and renewed contents. The new website is made up of three main sections–Blessed James Alberione, Pauline Family and Opera Omnia–all accessible from its home page. This structure…
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In the midst of the current pandemic, marked by so much suffering, the Lord gave our East Asian Delegation a wonderful surprise: their guitar album Dance with the Light, produced by the FSPs of Taiwan, won the 31st Golden Melody Awards (GMA) for best religious music album. (The GMA is the equivalent of the Grammy…
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Dearest Sisters and young women in formation, Meditating on the Prologue of John’s Gospel, which the Liturgy proposes to us on Christmas Day, my heart was captured–and not randomly–by this phrase: “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it” (Jn. 1:5). Light and darkness: a conflict that characterizes…
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What is Christmas for us if not a fresh awareness that we must unite ourselves more and more to the God who dwells within us, enabling us to make him present–to incarnate him–in the world. We celebrate Christmas to the degree that our life becomes a sacrament of God, who has expanded his…
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With the angel’s announcement to Mary, something unprecedented takes place: the time of religion ends and the time of faith begins. Human beings, who have always been intent on reaching the sky, are now visited by it. Mary is the image of human expectation: she creates within herself a space in which eve-rything can come…
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Sr. Noelia Toro from the province of Southern America and Sr. María Paz Hoyos representing the Peru-Bolivia delegation, organized an online retreat on the theme: Speak Lord, your daughter is listening. In order to encourage young women to participate in the event, the encounters were scheduled from 7:00-9:00 p.m., with the content centered on two biblical characters…
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The Paulines Institute of Communications in Asia (PICA), in collaboration with the Consuelo Foundation, whose mission is to promote the well-being of children, women and families at risk, organized its first webinar entitled National Forum on Media and Information Literacy for Education Leaders, with the aim of empowering educators to make society a responsible user…
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Who are You? John 1:6-8, 19-28 When John the Baptist is asked: “Who are you” (v. 19), he answers three times: “I am not….” A splendid answer! We are who we are not. The risk is believing that we are who we think we are or who others think we are or want us to… Read more »
