The Beloved Son Then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud there came a voice: “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!” And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone but Jesus with them. As they were coming down the mountain, he ordered them to tell no one about what they had… Read more »
The time is fulfilled The Spirit immediately drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained there for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him. After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the good news of God: “This is the time of fulfillment…. Read more »
Dearest Sisters and young women in formation, In March 1964, a little more than a month after the death of Maestra Tecla, Fr. Alberione consoled the Daughters of St. Paul for the loss of such a great “mother and teacher”: Do not grieve too much, for she is not absent, she is present! Present first… Read more »
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE 55rd WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY “Come and see” (Jn 1:46) Communicating, encountering people as and where they are ►►► PDF
Religious life always mirrors the changes taking place in society. Religious communities are microcosms within which people who enter it bring with them all the baggage they acquired prior to their entrance, but also all the material received from contact with the outside world. In this way, the religious community finds itself managing all the… Read more »
Baptism is God’s declaration of love for me. This Love remains at my side; it never forsakes me no matter what happens to me or around me; it takes care of me without being ashamed of me. Jesus begs John the Baptist, and each one of us, to allow him to remain at our side,…
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I like to think of today’s Feast, the Epiphany, as a homage to restlessness. The Magi are restless individuals. Their lives can be described by verbs like: to depart, to abandon, to leave, to embark, to undertake, to venture, to doubt. They are adventurous people because they don’t see anything as certain. They are not…
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Today we celebrate Mary as Mother of God. But her greatness does not lie in this. Instead, it lies in her readiness to embrace God’s work within her. What makes a creature great is the ability to recognize him/herself as a “field” in which God can work. Mary, who is “blessed among all women,” a…
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Dearest Sisters and young women in formation, Meditating on the Prologue of John’s Gospel, which the Liturgy proposes to us on Christmas Day, my heart was captured–and not randomly–by this phrase: “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it” (Jn. 1:5). Light and darkness: a conflict that characterizes…
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What is Christmas for us if not a fresh awareness that we must unite ourselves more and more to the God who dwells within us, enabling us to make him present–to incarnate him–in the world. We celebrate Christmas to the degree that our life becomes a sacrament of God, who has expanded his…
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