Rome, 28 February 2018 To the Circumscription Superiors, Superiors of Communities Dependent on the General Government and All the Sisters Dear Sisters, I am writing to you during this “favorable time” of preparation for Easter and two weeks prior to 15 March 1953–the day on which we will be celebrating the 65th anniversary of pontifical… Read more »
Dearest Sisters, Each year, the anniversary of Maestra Thecla’s “birth to heaven” finds us all united in remembering her in prayer and in the desire to imitate her docility to the will of God and great love for the Gospel. Little by little, as we penetrate her life more deeply–including through the many letters (over… Read more »
Evangelii Gaudium Questions The Pauline Family The challenges regarding the family and the protection of creation Dear Sisters and Brothers, We are writing to you from Ariccia, Italy at the end of the 35th Annual Meeting of the General Governments of the Pauline Family. We thank the Lord that once again we had… Read more »
Rome, 6 January 2018 To the Circumscription Superiors, Superiors of the Communities Dependent on the General Government and All the Sisters Dear Sisters, Today we are celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany–the feast of “light and traveling.” Guided by the light of Christ, the Magi first make a stopover in Jerusalem. These… Read more »
Dearest Sisters, It’s Christmas! The joyous announcement resounds: “Today a Savior has been born to you: Christ the Lord” (Lk. 2:11). Mary settles him into a new grotto–that of our earth, our history, our hearts. He comes as salvation, as Emmanuel, God-with-us. We are a poor grotto, stripped bare and empty, but in it shines… Read more »
Dearest Sisters The Gospel for the Feast of Jesus Master, Year A, invites us to reflect on the last evening of Christ’s earthly life. In the so-called “Cenacle” or Upper Room of a house in Jerusalem, he performs the surprising gesture of washing the feet of his disciples–an act that even Jewish servants were not… Read more »
Bogota, 30 July 2017 Dearest Sisters, In just a few hours I will be leaving Colombia, together with Sr. Clarice and Sr. Karen, but before I do I want to make an urgent appeal to all of you, asking all our communities to pray incessantly to God, our good Father, for martyred Venezuela, for that… Read more »
Rome, 29 June 2017 Opening of the Centenary of the Pauline Cooperators To All the Sisters Dearest Sisters, This year, the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul takes on a particular meaning for us because we are celebrating the Centenary of the Pauline Cooperators in the Church. In fact, on 29 June 1917, the… Read more »
Dearest Sisters, Easter is an event of overwhelming power. It is a proclamation of beauty, the forecast of a luminous life that irradiates grace: Jesus is risen–he is alive!–and we can meet the Living One as he was met by the women who came to his tomb at dawn on the third day. Let us… Read more »
Dearest Sisters, As we prepare to celebrate the 53rd anniversary of Prima Maestra Theclas passage to eternal life, it is …
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