Christmas of the Lord 2024 / Holy Year 2025 Dearest Sisters and young women in formation, Considering the events unfolding around the world, I must admit I hesitated to write about Christmas this year—a Christmas marred by rockets, drones, and bombs sowing death and destruction, even in the land of Jesus Himself As witnesses, we… Read more »
The community of the Daughters of Saint Paul in Bucharest has concluded a year-long celebration marking 30 years of Pauline apostolic presence in Romania. Thanks and praise to the Most Holy Trinity for the gift of the “pioneer” sisters, for the sisters who have enriched the community in recent years, for the superiors who have… Read more »
The Measure of the World is the theme of More Books, More Freedom 2024. Measuring the world with words, numbers, steps, smiles, distances, colours, clouds, and dreams. More Books, More Freedom is the National Fair for Small and Medium-sized Publishers, promoted and organized by the Italian Publishers Association. It takes place in Rome in December…
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On November 4, 2024, as part of the Citizen Recognition Program of the Rosemont district, where our Pauline Book Centre was located, one of two people awarded was Sr. Jeanne Lemire, of the Daughters of St. Paul, known for her involvement and its positive contribution to the life of the area. Sr. Lemire had a…
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A new version of The Bible was presented on November 26th in Rome, at the Basilica of Mary Queen of the Apostles in Montagnola. Search the Scriptures in Arabic, is a St. Paul Edition. A few thousand copies were donated to the Pope to be given to Arabic-speaking Christians in difficult situations. A climate of…
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The thirteenth annual conference of BookCity Milan took place from the 11th to the 17th of November. It is an event dedicated to books and literature promoted by the Cultural Department of the City of Milan and the Association of BOOKCITYMILAN, with the support of the Ministry of Culture. There were 1,597 events with over… Read more »
From November 12th to 20th, the Daughters of Saint Paul hosted the annual spiritual exercises of the Pauline Family at “Casa San Paolo” in Rome. This gathering offered an opportunity for 40 participants, representing various Pauline Congregations and aggregated Institutes of Italy, to engage in deep prayer, reflection, and sharing. The theme of the exercises, Conformed… Read more »
From November 5th to the 13th, the ninth event of #ioleggoché (#ireadbecause) took place in more than two thousand Italian bookshops (including the Pauline Bookshops), a solidarity initiative to supply school libraries. #ireadbecause is a national project for the education and promotion of reading organized by the Italian Publishers Association (AIE), which invites everyone to… Read more »
On the ninety-eighth World Mission Day, Agenzia Fides presented some data obtained from the latest “Statistical Yearbook of the Church.” In general, the percentage of Catholics of the world population is growing very slightly, at 17.7% (+0.03 percentage points): Africa (+7,271,000), the Americas (+5,912,000), Asia (+889,000) and Oceania (+123,000), while in Europe there continues to… Read more »
The Daughters of Saint Paul first arrived in Düsseldorf in 1964. They began the apostolate of communication and the Word through our bookshop in Nuremberg in. Here are some memories about these past sixty years. Sr Elena Barchetti, who arrived in Germany on September 15, 1964, together with Sr Cecilia Baron Toaldo, today lives in…
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