Francis – Initiatives and Gestures Category

Posted On 22.04.2014In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Who am I, before my Lord?

ROM, mda. This is one of those moments that makes me shiver with joy, this feeling of wanting to shout, cry, smile and pray, all at the same time.  Two hours and 34 minutes after the start of the Palm Sunday celebration in St. Peter's Square and the Radio Vatican commentators have already signed off with their customary "Laudetur Jesus Christus" and have switched to music in the last few minutes of the transmission.  The people in St. Peter's move towards the railings because they know: even though it isRead More

Posted On 11.04.2014In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

A youth project situating the world to pray

MUNDO DE COMUNICACIÓN. Catholic.net, ZENIT and May Feelings, join forces to launch this new challenge: 'Pray for the Pope'. On the first anniversary of his Pontificate, the world congratulates Pope Francis while he prays and asks prayers for him. You can download the application at this link: Rezar por el Papa Francisco (Pray for Pope Francis).Read More

Posted On 05.04.2014In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Accompanying Francis not only with applause, but with deeds

ARGENTINA, Carlos Eduardo Ferré. A celebration to commemorate the 1st Anniversary of Pope Francis' pontificate was held at Colegio Máximo de San Miguel, the house where Jorge Bergoglio lived for a large part of his life. More than 250 people attended and of course there was a birthday cake and several important artists enlivened the celebration (see article at schoenstatt.org). Dr. Carlos Eduardo Ferré, one of the initiators of "Generation Francis" and of this event sent his impressions of this celebration to the editors of schenstatt.org.Read More

Posted On 30.03.2014In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

“Touched” by his message and his gestures, Generation Francis walks together with the Shepherd

ARGENTINA, Claudia Echenique. The purpose of the conference that was held on Saturday, March 15th at the Colegio Máximo San José in San Miguel (BS. As.), where Jorge Bergoglio lived for eighteen years, studied, was ordained as a priest, and had been the rector was to celebrate the 1st Anniversary of Pope Francis' pontificate.Read More

Posted On 16.03.2014In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

This current of Pope France flows into all walks of life and places

PARAGUAY, Ani Souberlich. Last December 2013, a big group of college alumni got together to celebrate their 30th college reunion. They prepared a special dinner for the reunion event, and to remember once more those previous college years, of youth, and of old pranks; it was awesome!! Some had not seen each other for almost eighteen years, and others not since 1983, “My God, time has flown!” But in spite of the lapse of time, things were just as though they had never stopped seeing each other. Someone suggested forRead More

Posted On 11.03.2014In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Happy Birthday, Pope Francis!

mda. On 9 March, the First Sunday in Lent, Pope Francis and the Roman Curia started their spiritual exercise. Fr Angelo De Donatis, Parish priest of St Mark in the Capitol, will be giving the meditations. The retreat this year has the subject the "Purification of the heart" and takes place in the House of the Pauline Fathers in the "casa del Divin Maestro" in Ariccia, a few kilometres from Rome. The retreat ends on 14 March, one day after the first anniversary of Pope Francis' election. "The election makeRead More

Posted On 11.03.2014In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

On the first anniversary of Pope Francis’ election – an invitation from “Generation Francis”

ARGENTINA, Dr. Carlos Eduardo Ferré/mda. Jorge Bergoglio's election as the Pontiff of the Catholic Church has had a positive impact on the Church and the world.  It was the event of 2013 and there is no doubt that it will be remembered as the real start of the 21st century.  As we celebrate the first anniversary of Pope Francis' election, the Máximo de San Miguel College (belonging to the Society of Jesus), which was his home in Argentina throughout his life as a Jesuit, invites everyone to celebrate and reflectRead More

Posted On 19.02.2014In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

In a permanent state of mission

MEXICO/ARGENTINA, mda. “Aparecida proposes putting the Church in a permanent state of mission, carrying out acts of a missionary nature, within the broader context of a common mission: that all of the regular activities of the particular Churches may have a missionary character. And this in the certainty that missionary outreach, more than one activity among others, is a paradigm; that is, it is the paradigm for all pastoral work.  The Church’s intimacy with Jesus is an itinerant intimacy, it presumes that we step out of ourselves, that we walkRead More

Posted On 14.02.2014In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus

VATICAN, Dr. Pamela Fabiano. The Apostolic Exhoration Evangelii Gaudium is the document that Pope Francis wanted to give to Christians at the end of the Year of the Faith. Written to guide and point out (the word exhortation comes from the latin verb ex - hortari "motivate to do something" but also means "to console, to raise up) the guiding principles of the Church's path in the future and extend an invitation for a new chapter of evangelization.Read More

Posted On 09.02.2014In Francis - Initiatives and Gestures

Pope Francis’ Message for Lent

org. "Thank you very much for passing on this message of our Holy Father. We have already sent it to other members of our international leadership team and all the families belonging to the Family Federation in Paraguay", wrote Marite and Ramon Marini, members of the leadership team of the Family Federation a few minutes after receiving our Holy Father's message for Lent 2014 from schoenstatt.org. "This afternoon we are having a meeting of the missionaries and I will give each of them a copy", wrote Ana Mercedes de Nieuwenhuis,Read More

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