On November 14, Carmel celebrates the feast of all its saints, of those who are in PARADISE and of those who are on earth. They have lived the Carmelite spirituality that contemplates Elijah the prophet, who fixes…
We are in Advent season.
Advent (adventus in Latin) is the arrival, the advent of an important person.
Spontaneously, the thought is focused on the advent of the Word made flesh, on the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.
…. 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.
From a very young age, she demonstrated a great inclination to help the needs of the poorest and helpless. Her mother says that she was in charge of caring for people with limited resources who…
On the 6th of August we will celebrate Our Lord’s Transfiguration: the day when his body, similar to ours, was clothed in a radiant and brilliant light. We read, as described in St. Mark, that Jesus…
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.