“Raqqa has fallen, but where is father Dall’Oglio?”

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 11/07/2017 - 14:15

The Roman Jesuit Paolo Dall’Oglio disappeared while he was in Raqqa, the Syrian city that later became the “capital” of the so-called Islamic state. There, on July 28, 2013, were recorded the latest images and words of the monk. Now the jihadist-Raqqa has fallen, but there is no trace of Paolo, and uncontrolled rumors have begun to circulate around his fate. Father Jacques Murad, together with the brothers and sisters of Dei Mar Musa - the monastic community founded by Father Paolo - live this time of uncertainty and trepidation with the peace of the men and women of Christ.

“Faced with death, we are men and women of hope, not despair”

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 21:48

Francis celebrates Mass at Saint Peter’s for the cardinals and bishops deceased during the year, “fellowship with the dead is not merely a desire or an illusion, but a reality”

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On the one hand “the way of life”, which “leads to communion with God”. On the other “the way of death”, which instead “leads far from Him”. It is a “crossroads” that even now, in this world, stands before us and that death makes “definitive”.

Pope Francis prays for terror attack victims

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 11/01/2017 - 21:38

Angelus on the Solemnity of All Saints: “Saints are our brothers and sisters who have received the light of God in their hearts and have transmitted it to the world”

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Pope Francis, during his Angelus adress on the Solemnity of All Saints on Wednesday, expressed his deep sorrow following recent terrorist attacks in Somalia, Afghanistan and on Tuesday in New York.

Commemoration of all the faithful departed for November 2

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 11/01/2017 - 20:50

The Church has encouraged prayer for the dead from the earliest times as an act of Christian charity. “If we had no care for the dead,” Augustine noted, “we would not be in the habit of praying for them.” Yet pre-Christian rites for the deceased retained such a strong hold on the superstitious imagination that a liturgical commemoration was not observed until the early Middle Ages, when monastic communities began to mark an annual day of prayer for the departed members.