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Living together as brothers: The last day of the intercongregational experience “Tutti Fratelli” 2019
Friday, October 4, was the last day of the four-week Tutti Fratelli Program held at the General House of the de la Salle Brothers with 60 brothers from 14 congregations and 35 countries participating. Continue reading
Blindwalk 2019 – claretians network for eye donation
Responding to the changing needs of time, a creative ministry of Bangalore Province to reach out to the visually challenged persons found its best expression in a BlindWalk organized on October 10, 2019, World Sight Day. About 100,000 persons walked blindfolded in 227 locations spread across five countries, involving Claretians Provinces from various countries. Continue reading
National Catholic Reporter: Dominican sisters’ love for children in Vietnam
My community, the Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Phu Cuong Diocese in Vietnam, has done social work for more than 20 years at the Binh Trieu Development Center; presently we work with nearly 300 poor children in Ho Chi Minh City.
Jesuits: Openness and freedom of speech: the testimony of Bishop Alfredo Vizcarra after one week of the Synod
Among the Jesuits participating in the Synod on the Amazon is the bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Jaén, in the northeast of Peru. Bishop Alfredo Vizcarra succeeds several Jesuit confreres who have animated this Amazonian region since 1946. The vicariate is under the patronage of St. Francis Xavier. Continue reading
Pope to Capuchin Friars Minor: Be humble and poor missionaries
Pope Francis meets 73 Capuchin Friars Minor of the Italian Province of the Marches and speaks of vocations, poverty, forgiveness, and evangelization. Below is a Vatican News translation of the article published in the “L’Osservatore Romano” newspaper.Priests of the Sacred Heart. International conference. Sacred Heart Devotion Memory – Body – Image – Text: Continuities and Discontinuities, Rome, November 8/9th 2019
The devotion to the Sacred Heart in a variety of perspectives will be the central focus of the international and pluri-disciplinary conference. Speakers from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, the US, Canada and Indonesia will focus on iconography, memory, emotion and body in the language, imagery and rituals of the Sacred Heart.
#UISG – Public meeting: online and onsite: Women’s Voice in the Church, October 17 – 3pm-4.30pm (Rome time)
Speakers:
Sr Annmarie Sanders, ihm – Communications Director of LCWR (Leadership Conference of Women Religious – USA) Continue reading
The Amazon Synod: Interview with Mons. Francisco Antonio Ceballos CSsR
Vicar of Puerto Carreño: “The Holy Spirit was already in the original cultures before our arrival”
A few hours after the start of the Amazon Synod, Francisco Antonio Ceballos, the Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Carreño, in the Vichada department, in the eastern tip of Colombia, near the southern border of Venezuela, is one of the 15 Colombian bishops will meet at this event that will begin this October 6th. Continue reading
OCTOBER. An extraordinary missionary month and launching of twinning between the 123 communities of the congregation
“Overcoming the temptation of all pessimism, all sterile nostalgia for the past and opening oneself to the joyful newness of the Gospel”. It was with these words that Pope Francis proposed to the Church an extraordinary Missionary Month organised on the occasion of the centenary of the promulgation of the Apostolic Letter Maximum illud Continue reading
Planting A Tree With Pope Francis: All Around The World!
Following the great St. Francis of Assisi, We Are A Mission is recreating paradise once again through the precious hands of God’s little ones. On his Feast, 4 October, the Holy Father planted a tree in the Vatican Gardens to conclude this year’s Season of Creation; Continue reading