Francis week by week (12) • The quotation this week is taken from Pope Francis’ homily during the Mass at Santa Marta on 20 May 2016. Let us read and listen this week to the message as if spoken to us, as a Schoenstatt that goes out, a Schoenstatt that feels called to apostolic work, that is, to helping people – concrete and real people – find the way to the Father. “We must walk with these two things that Jesus teaches us: truth and understanding. This cannot be resolved like
Read More Francis week by week (11) • The quotation this week is, of course, taken from the Holy Father’s post-synodal Exhortation on love in the family, Amoris Leatitia Let us read and listen this week to the message for the whole church as if spoken to us, a Schoenstatt that proudly calls itself “family” and has taken marriage and family life as one of its main apostolates. No family drops down from heaven perfectly formed; families need constantly to grow and mature in the ability to love. This is a never-ending
Read More Francis week by week (2) • This week’s “as if spoken to us” message is taken from the homily during the morning Mass at Santa Marta on 21 January 2016 (full sermon here). This week, we read and listen to the message given to the participants at the Mass by the “parish priest of Rome” (as Osservatore Romano has chosen to call these Masses filled with practical and simple messages), as if it were spoken to us as a federal and international movement of men and women, lay and consecrated
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