Sr. Maria Kimani is the superior of the East African delegation. From the 1st to the 28th of February, 2010, the delegation was visited by the Superior General, Sr. M. Antonieta Bruscato, and the General Councillors Sr. Anna Maria Parenzan e Sr. Anna Caiazza. Sr. Maria Kimani spoke to us of the Pauline presence in… Read more »
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United Kingdom Lenten Reflection and Presentation
On 24 February 2010, Sr Gemma Simmonds, a sister from the Congregation of Jesus who lectures in pastoral theology and spirituality at Heythrop College, University of London gave a Lenten reflection at Holy Family Parish in Langley, UK. Using the images and reflections of Glimpses of the Divine: The Art and Inspiration of Sieger Koder published… Read more »
Congo R. D. Kinshasa, Redesigning and Pastoral Vocational Work
After the recent Encounter in Nairobi on the redesigning process of the presence of the Daughters of St. Paul in Africa-Madagascar, the D.R. Congo/Ivory Coast delegation chose as their priority «pastoral work for vocations ». This great dream, to improve the pastoral vocational organic, brought together at Kinshasha, the delegation house, the Superiors, the formators… Read more »
Brazil 2010 ?Golden Anniversary of Paoline COMEP
A celebration in the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida on March 6, launched the celebration of 50 years of the recording house Paoline-COMEP. Begun in March 1960, as Pauline Records, in a mini-studio in the house of the Pauline Sisters in Curitiba, it was soon transferred to San Paolo and in 1984 it adopted… Read more »
United States Sr. Rose Pacatte Receives the CIMA 2010 Award
On 28 February 2010, the Catholics in Media Associates (CIMA) honored Sr. Rose Pacatte, Daughter of St. Paul, by conferring on her its 2010 Board of Directors Award. CIMA president Jane Abbott said:?The CIMA Board of Directors honors Sr. Rose Pacatte, FSP for her leadership role in the world of media literacy and for her… Read more »
SPAIN Valladolid: The 2nd Spiritual Film Week
From March 1st to the 5th, in Valladolid la The 2nd Spiritual Film Week is being celebrated. It is an initiative of pastoral care for young people whose prinicpal objective is to introduce human and spiritual values with the opportunity offered by cinema as the starting point. At this activity, works will be presented that,… Read more »
Chile A testimony from Santiago
We forward to you the news we received from Chile, where the Daughters of St. Paul are present in Santiago, Concepcion, Valparaiso, and Antofagasta. Let us unite ourselves in solidarity and prayer with the suffering of this people so tried, both by earthquake and by Tsunami. Because of electricity failure and the interruption of telephone and… Read more »
Singapore Paulines Singapore at Local Universities
For two weeks, our sisters had the opportunities to mingle with the students in the two varsities – Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore, participating in their annual Catholic Awareness Week. This is one of the ways for our sisters to be inserted into the secular tertiary institutions, making our presence felt and at… Read more »
United Kingdom Jesus in the Films of all Time
?We need to put down the censors? scissors and pick up the cameras? because ?the power of the cinema surpasses that of the schools, the pulpits, and the press and always has greater effects?: these are the words of Blessed James Alberione, who initiated his cinematographic activity on March 18, 1938. From that day onward, the… Read more »
Portugal The Disaster at Madeira
47 people lost their lives, 120 were wounded, and 250 evacuated. These are the statistics of the tragedy that struck the Portugese island of Madeira. The exceptional wave of bad weather that damaged the island, which is situated north of the Canary islands, swept away cars and trees, caused the collapse of bridges and transformed… Read more »