PEACE

Those who have learned and exercise the art of peace are called children of God, they know that there is no reconciliation without the gift of one’s own life, and that peace must always be sought,” Pope Francis

CHRIST is Risen!

Excerpt URBI ET ORBI 2022: Today, more than ever, we hear echoing the Easter proclamation so dear to the Christian East: “Christ is risen! He is truly risen!” Today, more than ever, we need him, at the end of a Lent that has seemed endless. We emerged from two years of pandemic, which took a…

LENT invites us to conversion

LENT invites us to conversion, to a change in mindset, so that life’s truth and beauty may be found not so much in possessing as in giving, not so much in accumulating as in sowing and sharing goodness.

JOY, the beauty of Consecration

Pope Francis says: the beauty of consecration is JOY. Joy, is the greatest expression of life in Christ and the “greatest witness we can offer the holy people of God whom we are called to serve and accompany on their pilgrimage toward the encounter with the Father.” Pope Francis noted that: “To be with Jesus…

LENTEN Journey

During this Lenten season, let us pray by looking at the Crucified Lord. Let us open our hearts to the touching tenderness of God, and in his wounds place our own wounds and those of our world. ( Pope Francis @Pontifex)

LENT is the time….

LENT is the time granted us by the Lord to be renewed, to nurture our interior life and to journey towards Easter, towards the things that do not pass away, towards the reward we are to receive from the Father. ( Pope Francis @Pontifex )

LENT is a journey…

Lent is a journey of healing, to live each day with a renewed spirit, a different “style”. Prayer, charity and fasting are aids to this: they restore us to a living relationship with God, our brothers and sisters, and ourselves. (Pope Francis @Pontifex)

LENT is a favourable time…

LENT is a favourable time to seek out – and not to avoid – those in need; to reach out – and not to ignore – those who need a sympathetic ear and a good word; to visit – and not to abandon – those who are lonely. (Pope Francis @Pontifex)