Launched in Italy in 1997, Religion Today is an annual film festival dedicated to promoting interreligious dialogue through films. An itinerant festival, it was held this year in the city of Trent from 14-26 October 2011 and revolved around the theme: Poverty: A Problem or an Opportunity?-tackling the subject from not only its social dimension… Read more »
The month-long course of spiritual exercises inspired by Fr. James Alberione’s spiritual-apostolic experience recorded in the text Donec Formetur Christus in vobis opens on 23 October. The course, which is being held for the 9th consecutive year, offers participants an intense immersion in the “overflowing riches” of the Pauline spirituality. As in previous years, this… Read more »
The month of October, dedicated to the missions, finds its high point in the celebration of World Mission Day, which this year falls on 23 October and revolves around the theme: “As the Father has sent me, so I send you” (Jn. 20:21). In his message for this day, Pope Benedict XVI reminds everyone that… Read more »
The 63rd Frankfurt International Book Fair, the world’s most important publishing event, opened on 12 October 2011. FSPs representing Pauline publishing sectors from all over the world participated in the event with books and audio visuals on the Bible, spirituality, current issues, material for children, etc. A theme that our publications–and also those of other… Read more »
T-shirts, yellow balloons, prayer sessions, concerts and testimonies of life-all were a fundamental part of the “Mission to Youth” Week organized by the diocese of Rome from 1-8 October 2011. An outreach program of “youth to youth,” the mission was placed under the protection of Blessed John Paul II and involved more than 400 young… Read more »
The course for our young FSP missionaries held in Rome from 15 September to 10 October has now concluded. Entitled, Serving the Word with Universal Horizons, the encounter was the fruit of the process of redesigning our presences, which has led to the reassignment of sisters from various circumscriptions to other countries. The purpose of… Read more »
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to three courageous women: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia; Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian peace activist, and Tawakkul Karman, a Yemeni human rights activist. Sirleaf is the first woman president of an African country; Gbowee is an activist for peace, and Karman works to defend… Read more »
When the Daughters of St. Paul of Madagascar courageously accepted what they called the “titanic” request of the local Bishops’ Conference to produce an edition of the Bible in the Malagasy language, Sr. Antonieta Bruscato, Superior General of the Institute, encouraged them to accept the project, saying: “You are capable of working miracles!” The desire… Read more »
On 20 August, in Lubumbashi, at the ceremony opening the three-year period of preparation for the Centenary of foundation of the Pauline Family, one of our sisters’ collaborators, Gabriel Ilunga, offered the following testimony in gratitude to the Daughters of St. Paul: “My name is Gabriel Ilunga. I am a writer, sociologist and communications consultant…. Read more »
Silence and the Word: Path of Evangelizationz : this is the theme chosen by Benedict XVI for World Communications Day 2012, which most countries celebrate on the Sunday before Pentecost (in 2012, 20 May). Commenting on the Pope’s choice of theme, a representative of the Pontifical Council for Social Com-munications said, “It is clearly the… Read more »
