The Catholic community has become social: a community with a specific identity; a community that does not deny or exclude its faith but instead lives it to the point of self-giving, and that always looks to its hub: the Lord Jesus. Social media has enlarged, extended and amplified this community. Today, like yesterday and perhaps… Read more »
Narrate, discern, renew…with the Story of Stories (Sacred Scripture) in the background and in one’s heart. The Message of Pope Francis for the 54th World Communications Day, published on 24 January 2020, the Memorial of St. Francis De Sales, is based on these three verbs. Inspired by Exodus 10:2, “That you may tell your children… Read more »
Now, while we are looking forward to a slow and arduous recovery from the pandemic, there is a danger that we will forget those who are left behind. The risk is that we may then be struck by an even worse virus, that of selfish indifference. A virus spread by the thought that life is…
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The grave is the place where no one who enters ever leaves. But Jesus emerged for us; he rose for us, to bring life where there was death, to begin a new story in the very place where a stone had been placed. He, who rolled away the stone that sealed the entrance of the… Read more »
Dear Sisters and young women in formation, In the beautiful message of Pope Francis for the 54th World Communications Day, two sentences offered me particular inspiration for this letter: Each of us knows different stories that have the fragrance of the Gospel, that have borne witness to the Love that transforms life. Our own story…
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MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE 54rd WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY “That you may tell your children and grandchildren” (Ex 10:2). Life becomes history.
The family is not a subject of debate or a terrain for ideological skirmishes. Rather, it is an environment in which we learn to communicate in an experience of closeness, a setting where communication takes place, a“communicating community”. The family is a community which provides help, which celebrates life and is fruitful. Once we realize…
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Hope is the humblest of virtues, for it remains hidden in the recesses of life; yet it is like the yeast that leavens all the dough. We nurture it by reading ever anew the Gospel, “reprinted” in so many editions in the lives of the saints who became icons of God’s love in this world…. Read more »
By virtue of our being created in the image and likeness of God who is communion and communication-of-Self, we carry forever in our hearts the longing for living in communion, for belonging to a community. “Nothing, in fact, is as specific to our nature as entering into a relationship one with another, having need… Read more »
The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: it blesseth him that gives and him that takes. (The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene I)