Our sisters of San Juan, Puerto Rico, have written to tell us about the first profession of Sr. Simona Acosta Rosario, which they are celebrating as a concrete sign of hope for all our FSP communities of the Caribbean, including Sr. Simona?s homeland, the Dominican Republic.With great joy and apostolic enthusiasm, Sr. Simona has accepted… Read more »
In his annual message for World Mission Day (24 October), Pope Benedict XVI reflects on the gratuitous service that is a necessary part of mission: “In a multiethnic society that is experiencing increasingly disturbing forms of loneliness and indifference, Christians must learn to offer signs of hope and to become universal brethren, cultivating the great… Read more »
Within the framework of redesigning our presences, the FSPs responsible for Pauline Editions in the Congo and Ivory Coast met in Kinshasa to reorganize and give new thrust to their book publishing and audiovisual departments.After evaluating the 30-year journey of our publishing house in this part of the world, and after analyzing the socio-politico-cultural situations… Read more »
Last June, during the celebration of Vespers in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, patrons of the Diocese of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he was creating a new dicastery to promote the re-evangelization of the Western world. In fact, the purpose of the… Read more »
The Province’s Commission on Spirituality recently held a series of Liturgical Animations in the circumscription’s Alberione Auditorium, Pasay City, Manila, in response to a desire expressed by many sisters in an evaluation of their liturgical life held last April and May, 2010. The Commission hopes that these seminars will help the members of the Province… Read more »
Fired by an ardent desire to help our young women live the Pauline vocation to the full, 32 Daughters of St. Paul from 19 countries gathered in Rome in a spirit of joyful internationality to participate in an International Seminar for pre-postulant, postulant and novice mistresses. The Seminar, which is being held in response to… Read more »
More than seven thousand publishers participated in 62nd Frankfurt Book Fair, held from 6-10 October. This year, Argentina was the Fair?s ?guest of honor.? Abundant space was given to digital publishing, especially e-book support structures such as e-readers and other devices?a new and very interesting aspect of the publishing world. FSPs from all over the… Read more »
The town council of Grezzana (Verona), Italy has awarded Sr. Maria Rosa Ballini, fsp, its ?Citizen of the Year Award? for 2010 in honor of her outreach to the needy in developing countries.We are sure that from heaven Sr. Maria Rosa is very appreciative of this posthumous recognition bestowed on her by her hometown. To… Read more »
1-4 October 2010. At the end of September, the FSPs from Hong Kong, Macau and traveled to Taipei to participate with the members of our Taiwan Delegation in a meeting to launch the Congregation’s new East Asia Delegation. The 36 sisters (including one postulant and one aspirant) who will form the new Delegation speak 9… Read more »
This theme, according to a Vatican communiqué, focuses on the human person who is at the heart of all communication processes. Even in an age that is largely dominated, and at times conditioned, by the new technologies, the value of personal witness remains essential. To approach the truth and to take on the task of… Read more »
