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 »
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Congo R. D. Giving a New Impetus to Our Publications
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 »
Italy A New Evangelization of the Western World Evangelizzazione
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 »
Philippines Series of Liturgical Animations in Pasay
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 »
Italy International Seminar for Formators
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 »
Germany Frankfurt International Book Fair
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 »
Letter of the Superior General on the new East Asia Delegation
Taipei, 5 October 2010 To All the Members of the Congregation Dearest Sisters, Yesterday we concluded our meeting with the sisters of Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong and Vietnam. The purpose of the encounter was to launch our new East Asia Delegation, which will consist of these communities. The decision to unite these four realities, which… Read more »
Italy Posthumous Honors for Sr. Maria Rosa Ballini
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 »
Taiwan Meeting To Launch the New East Asia Delegation
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 »
Italy Theme for World Communications Day 2011
Truth, Proclamation and Authenticity of Life in the Digital Age
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 »