Author: danielafsp

May 2019

Hiroko – Maria Amabilis SUZUKI 22/05/2019 Tokyo/ Giuseppa (Giuseppina) SCICHILONE 01/05/2019 Albano (Italia)/ Elsa MINNIG 08/05/2019 Buenos Aires (Argentina)/ Anna LISCIA 05/05/2019/ Teresa GROSELJ 30/05/2019 Buenos Aires (Argentina)/ Irma Gema – Maria Assunta CANALI 18/05/2019 São Paulo (Brasile)

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ITALY
Communications Week and Festival 2019

To highlight the importance of World Communications Day, the Society of St. Paul and Daughters of St. Paul of Italy hold a Communications Week and Festival every year. Throughout Italy, a series of pastoral and cultural initiatives are organized (conventions, contests, workshops, activities in our Pauline book centers, video programs, musical and theater performances and… Read more »

Social Webs: Not Cobwebs But Networks

From Like to Amen. The Message for the 53rd World Communications Day is a wake-up call that invites us to discard the logic of like and welcome the logic of the truth because relationships are not founded on emotions or ideals but on who a person truly is. “We are members one of another” (Eph…. Read more »

A Spirit of Faith

From the text: For a Spiritual Renewal (pp. 45-46)

From the text: For a Spiritual Renewal (pp. 45-46) This morning, through the intercession of St. Joseph, let us ask for an increase in faith, hope and charity. An increase in faith: to believe that the Lord has given us a mission and all the graces necessary to fulfill it. A faith to which we… Read more »

South Africa
The Internet and Faith

The Daughters of St. Paul of Johannesburg recently held a cultural meeting aimed at proposing a critical reflection on the use of the Internet, taking as a starting point the words of Pope Francis in his Message for World Communications Day 2019: “Ever since the Internet first became available,” says the Pope, “the Church has… Read more »

ITALY
Religious: Sowers of Hope

From 6-10 May 2019, about 850 women Superiors General from all over the world gathered in Rome for the XXI Plenary Assembly of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG). The theme of the meeting, Sowers of Prophetic Hope, focused attention on how women religious can be signs of hope in the midst of the …

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Prayer

Saint Cyprian

Therefore let us pray, beloved Brethren, as God our Teacher has taught us. It is a trusting and intimate prayer to beseech God with his own word, to raise to his ears the prayer of Christ. Let the Father acknowledge the words of his Son when we pray, and let him also who dwells within… Read more »

BRAZIL
A Pauline Book Center that “Goes Forth”

The Daughters of St. Paul have opened a new apostolic center in Juazeiro do Norte, the third most visited pilgrimage spot in Brazil. The city of Juazeiro was born and developed under the auspices of Fr. Cicero Romão Batista, an extraordinary apostle of northern Brazil, who died in 1934. The place is still strongly tied… Read more »

Hymn On the Pearl

Saint Ephrem

I placed (the pearl), my brothers, on the palm of my hand, to be able to examine it. I began to look at it from one side and from the other: it looked the same from all sides. (Thus) is the search for the Son inscrutable, because it is all light. In its clarity I… Read more »

KOREA
Peace Concerts

With the purpose of giving glory to God and bringing peace to everyone, the Daughters of St. Paul of Korea have programmed a number of peace and healing book concerts to present the theme of solidarity to all those striving for the well beingof humanity. This project is part of a support program sponsored by… Read more »