ENTERING INTO A RETREAT

(By: J. Veltri, sj) I enter into a retreat seeking a deeper knowledge and faith that GOD wants to communicate personally with me, no matter where I have been or how closed I have been in the past. This is a tme of disengagement – because I recognize that we are rhythmic creatures needing activity…

Art. 84 of LAUDATO SI: Everything is a caress of GOD

Laudato Si Week : May 16-25 Our insistence that each human being is an image of God should not make us overlook the fact that each creature has its own purpose. None is superfluous. The entire material universe speaks of God’s love, his boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were,…

Pope Francis: THE CHURCH TEACHER OF PRAYER

Dear Brothers and Sisters, in our continuing catechesis on Christian prayer we now consider the Church herself as a great school of prayer. Our parents, who first taught us to pray, planted within us a seed that matures through our experience of the Christian life. Through the example of other men and women of faith,…

Pope Francis: PRAYING IN COMMUNION WITH THE SAINTS

Pope Francis says: Whenever we pray, we find ourselves immersed in a great stream of past, present and future intercession for the needs of individuals and of the whole world, for we pray together with all the saints in the communion of the Body of Christ which is the Church. The saints – this great…

HE LIVES!

Happy Easter to you ALL! Pope Francis says: The first Easter message that I would offer you: “it is always possible to begin anew because there is a new life that God can awaken in us in spite of all our failures. “From the rubbles of our hearts”, God can create a work of art;…

Pope Francis: TO PRAY IN COMMUNION WITH MARY

Dear Brothers and Sisters, in our continuing catechesis on prayer, we now consider the place of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the life of prayer. All Christian prayer is modelled on Jesus’ own prayer. As the incarnate Son, he not only teaches us to pray, but as the Mediator between God and man he constantly…

Pope Francis: PRAYER and the TRINITY

Through prayer and works of charity we open our lives to the Spirit’s gifts, following in the footsteps of countless saints who have gone before us. The Catechism tells us that there are as many paths of prayer as there are persons who pray, but it is the same Spirit acting in all and with…