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…

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…

WALK TOWARDS EASTER

” Let us allow ourselves to be loved, so that we can give love in return. Let us allow ourselves to stand up and walk towards Easter. Then we will experience the joy of discovering how God raises us up from our ashes.” -Pope Francis

Time to Pause, See and Return…..

We were always given a chance to be drawn closer to God and perfect opportunity comes in this time of LENT. Our Holy Father, Pope Francis said that in this life, we are always in need of conversion and that during this season of Lent the Church invites us to pray for this conversion. He…

ESSERE MISSIONARIA!

È stato un sogno da tempo per andare in missione. E poi un giorno ero sulla strada con la macchina quando la madre Generale mi ha dato la buona notizia, mi ha invitato di andare a Roma per una missione. Subito io le ho detto di SI anche se la madre mi ha detto di…

Why I came up with this blog?

Why I came up with this blog? A challenged?  Yes.  It dawned on me… maybe its high time for me to start a blog.  Isn’t it they said:  Blogging is an art of self-expression and communication, a tool for healing, a tool to let out one’s creativity.   So, here I am, come journey with me…