All of us, brothers and sisters, are in great need of hope, which is not optimism; no, it is something else. We need hope. Hope is depicted as an anchor, there at the shore, and in clinging to its rope, we move toward hope. We need hope, we need to lift our gaze to horizons…
Dear Brothers and Sisters, in our continuing catechesis on Christian prayer, we now turn to the prayer of petition. The Catechism explains that in every prayer we ask for the coming of God’s Kingdom in our lives and in our world. Jesus taught us to pray to our heavenly Father, acknowledging our total dependence on…
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,…
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 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…
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;…
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…
” 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
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…
The first day of September marks a special event in the Church and in our world today. Pope Francis instituted the World Day of Prayer for the Creation in 2015 and today on its third year the Holy Father inked a Joint Message with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. This is the first time that…
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