Church – Francis – Movements Category

mda.  The Marian Journey has begun in Rome; it will end on Sunday the 13th, when Francis will consecrate the world to Mary,in the presence of the original statue of Our Lady of Fatima.      Read More
org. Every part of the Church, and many others outside of her – believers or non-believers – have received Pope Francis` clear and hope-filled words. They are also words that motivate us to assume the responsibility we all have to build a world in accordance to the Will of God, in the strength of the Spirit and through the way of Christ. Cardinals and bishops, priests, men and women religious, novices and seminarians, families, the youth and elderly, communities and institutes have receivedRead More
This church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a small group of selected people. We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. And the church is Mother; the church is fruitful. It must be. You see, when I perceive negative behavior in ministers of the church or in consecrated men or women, the first thing that comes to mind is: ‘Here’s an unfruitfulRead More
mda. He writes a letter to atheists; he phones a six-year-old boy to thank him for a picture he had painted and given to him during an audience; he gives Jesuit magazines a thirty-page interview that startles the world; he speaks again and again about the Church as mother and says it is his favourite image, which complements the other of a missionary Church that goes out to the peripheries of society instead of closing herself off - a Church that opens herself for the needs of the world andRead More
org. Every part of the Church, and many others outside of her – believers or non-believers – have received Pope Francis` clear and hope-filled words. They are also words that motivate us to assume the responsibility we all have to build a world in accordance to the Will of God, in the strength of the Spirit and through the way of Christ. Cardinals and bishops, priests, men and women religious, novices and seminarians, families, the youth and elderly, communities and institutes have receivedRead More
org. Every part of the Church, and many others outside of her – believers or non-believers – have received Pope Francis` clear and hope-filled words. They are also words that motivate us to assume the responsibility we all have to build a world in accordance to the Will of God, in the strength of the Spirit and through the way of Christ. Cardinals and bishops, priests, men and women religious, novices and seminarians, families, the youth and elderly, communities and institutes have receivedRead More
org. “But the task remains: we move forward with prayer and works of peace. I invite you to continue to pray so that the violence and devastation in Syria may cease immediately."  "The search for peace is long and demands patience and perseverance!"  In an urgent call at a time of fervent prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East and the whole world, the Holy Father highlighted, before the Angelus, to Catholics and pilgrims from different parts of the world - that "this Word of the Lord affects usRead More
org. The day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, Middle East and the entire world, called by Pope Francis last Sunday, has begun. "All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace", Francis twittered yesterday. From shrines and wayside shrines in the whole world, Schoenstatt is participating. The day began at midnight in the Shrine in Madrid, Serrano, with a night vigil...    Read More
org. "No more wars!”  The cry of millions of men and women of the Earth, who struggle against  that which is possibly – inevitable? Military intervention in Syria is also the cry of Pope Francis, who has convoked a vigil of fasting and prayer for peace this Saturday, September 7th at the Vatican.  It is a convocation which the entire Catholic Church in the Middle East joins.  It is a convocation that has had strong repercussion in the Focolare,Saint Egidio and the Communion and Liberation Movements that have convoked theirRead More
org. Every part of the Church, and many others outside of her – believers or non-believers – have received Pope Francis` clear and hope-filled words. They are also words that motivate us to assume the responsibility we all have to build a world in accordance to the Will of God, in the strength of the Spirit and through the way of Christ. Cardinals and bishops, priests, men and women religious, novices and seminarians, families, the youth and elderly, communities and institutes have receivedRead More