…. a way of community holiness.
The feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the temple, the feast of the meeting is also the World Day of Thanksgiving for the gift of Consecrated Life. It was instituted by Saint John Paul II on January 6, 1997, as the fruit of the Synod of Bishops on Consecrated Life and the publication of the Apostolic Exhortation “Vita Consecrata”, the previous year.
Ash Wednesday, we begin our Lenten journey, a 40-day journey towards Easter, towards the heart of the liturgical year and of faith.
We are coming to Easter this year with discreet joy, carrying in the heart the suffering and death of so many people caused by the pandemic; but, going deep, this is precisely what opens a door for us to cross the threshold of Holy Easter night, night of light, night of liberation and life.
It’s a good time to awaken our hearts to what should be our ordinary attitude. But the liturgy is at the service of our normal way of being a Christian “always ready to give an account…
There is, as underlying in the doctrine of St. John of the Cross, this thrust, this need to go to God. This is a point that is not usually mentioned, which seems to me essential. There is…
“To celebrate Christmas, then, is to receive on earth the surprises of Heaven. We cannot simply live an earthly existence when Heaven has brought its news to the world. Christmas inaugurates a new epoch where life is…
It is a text that has been given honest and serious thought so as to be a joint declaration of good and heartfelt aspirations. It is a document that invites all persons who have faith in God and faith in human fraternity to unite and work together so that it may serve as a guide for future generations to advance a culture of mutual respect in the awareness of the great divine grace that makes all human beings brothers and sisters.
“Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.” (Lk. 24,5)
Haifa 1919-2019
“Spes nostra, salve”, these words of the Salve Regina that we sing every Saturday in Carmel, repeat to the Blessed Virgin that she is our hope.
This quotation from the preface of the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, explicitly expresses the meaning of the Carmelite habit. The hermits of Mount Carmel, from the very beginning of their life in Palestine,…
