Lent is a time of deep prayer, an opportunity for Catholics to look more closely for the sacred in ordinary life, while also reflecting on the humanity of Christ. Finding God in all things — one of the core perspectives of Ignatian spirituality, named for St. Ignatius of Loyola — is something that plays a key role in transforming many Catholics’ spiritual lives.
Pray Like St. Ignatius
Four years later. Second episode of Gianni Valente’s analysis. When Christian faith is replaced by religious ideologic
The ecclesiastical hostility reserved to Pope Francis, in all its various gradations, is unprecedented in the history of the last centuries.
So long as we live in this world we cannot escape suffering and temptation. Whence it is written in Job: "The life of man upon earth is a warfare." Everyone, therefore, must guard against temptation and must watch in prayer lest the devil, who never sleeps but goes about seeking whom he may devour, find occasion to deceive him. No one is so perfect or so holy but he is sometimes tempted; man cannot be altogether free from temptation.
Cardinal Parolin speaks to Vatican Radio about the pontificate anniversary and the changes within the Curia: we need "a genuine return to God and an authentic manifestation of the church’s true nature".
“No matter what you have done, I love you for your own sake. Come to me with your misery and sins, with your troubles and needs, and with all of your longing to be loved.”
“Jesus is God, therefore His love, His Thirst, is infinite. He, the creator of the universe, asked for the love of His creatures. He thirsts for our love... These words: 'I Thirst' – do they echo in our souls?” —St. Teresa of Calcutta
Msgr. Anthony Figueiredo warns that there is a brief window of opportunity, and that if Christians don't respond to what is happening in the world today, it may be too late to effect change.
There is an attack on family life; and the only way back is through prayer. That's the message from Msgr. Anthony J. Figueiredo, a full-time Consultant to the newly established Vatican Dicastery for Integral Human Development.
To understand how Christ’s encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well portrayed in John’s Gospel was remarkable, we should first understand the Samaritan people and why they were so reviled. The Samaritans were a mixed population who worshipped God differently from the Jews. While they worshipped the one true God, they only held the first five Books of Moses to be Sacred Scripture; rejecting the rest of the Jewish testament. Also, they worshipped on Mount Gerizium in the Palestinian West Bank, not at the Temple in Jerusalem.
Angelus, Francis exhorted to hear “the cry of the hidden young victims of violence”.
Francis’ appeal to hear the hidden cry of abused children victims of violence. "Christ is not a man of great wealth, but a poor man with nowhere to lay his head, He is not a patriarch with numerous offspring, but a homeless bachelor without a nest," he said. And "the Christian cross is not a piece of furniture or an ornament to wear, but a call to that love, with which Jesus sacrificed Himself to save humanity from sin and evil.”
Catholic News Service asked Father Michael Fuller, executive director of the Secretariat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, to explain the difference between celibacy and chastisty, a promise and a vow.
1. What is celibacy? Do priests take a vow of celibacy?
The last mass of the Spiritual Exercises in Ariccia was dedicated to Syria’s dramatic situation. Mission of Dal Toso and Zenari in late January.
On the last day of his Lenten Spiritual Exercises with the Roman Curia in Ariccia, the Pope celebrated a Mass for Syria “and sent 100,000 euro to the poor of Aleppo, thanks to a contribution of the Roman Curia.” This was announced by Paloma Garcia Ovejero, Deputy Director of the Vatican Press Office. The donation will be made by the Office of Papal Charities, the Apostolic Almoner.
