MESSAGES - Joint ecumenical statement for World Refugee Day 2017. The Christian Bible tells the story of two men, Peter and Cornelius, utterly divided by religious belief and culture, who in encountering each other discovered a truth about God’s common will for them that neither had previously grasped. They learnt that the Holy Spirit brings down...
MESSAGES - Below is the Vatican-provided text of Pope Francis’ Message for the first World Day of the Poor, which is to be celebrated on Nov. 19, 2017, on the theme: ‘Let us love, not with words but with deeds‘. Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the First World Day of the Poor Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time 19 November 2017...
MESSAGES - Pope Francis received the participants in the General Chapters of the Consolata men and women missionaries in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace at noon today. Here is a Zenit translation of the Holy Father’s address in the course of the meeting. Dear Consolata Men and Women Missionaries, I am happy to receive together the masculine branch...
MESSAGES - Dear Brothers and Sisters, Once again this year, World Mission Day gathers us around the person of Jesus, “the very first and greatest evangelizer” (Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi, 7), who continually sends us forth to proclaim the Gospel of the love of God the Father in the power of the Holy Spirit...
MESSAGES - Addressing the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity on Friday, Pope Francis spoke to them about their charism for evangelization, especially to the poor, encouraging them to be joyful in their mission. “You are called, and are by vocation, 'missionaries'; that is, evangelizers, and at the same time you are at the service of the poor. Sisters...
MESSAGES - Pope Francis on Monday greeted the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master (PDDM) and encouraged them to go forward in their mission to bring the Gospel to the men and women of today with joy in unity, giving voice to plurality and respecting each other’s differences. The Pope words came as he addressed...
MESSAGES - "I am happy to be in this beautiful country, a land of a young and promising church, for a second pastoral visit ... I chose to begin my stay with this meeting in order to get in touch with the local Church through her pastoral agents. You are the main protagonists in the life of the Church and her mission in Equatorial Guinea"...
MESSAGES - Dear Brothers, After proposing in the annual letter last year the theme of holiness as a style of life, I now invite you to deepen, in this year 2017, the dimension of study, another essential aspect of our life as apostle-communicators. Both of these “wheels” of the “Pauline cart”, according to the charismatic legacy we have received as a gift from our Founder...
MESSAGES - Saint Leo the Great Patriarchal Seminary, Maadi. Saturday, 29 April 2017. Your Beatitudes, Dear Brothers and Sisters, As-salamu alaykum! Peace be with you! “This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice in him! Christ is forever victorious over death, let us rejoice in him!”. I am happy to be with you in this house of formation for priests...
MESSAGES - “The adjective ‘crucial’ comes from the Latin crux, meaning ‘cross’. A choice is said to be crucial when we are at the crossroads, facing the Cross of Jesus. The Crucified One invites as people of Sudan and South Sudan us to bear the sufferings of one another, to keep patient vigil together in the darkness, to listen even in death...
MESSAGES - Dear Marists of Champagnat, On 2 January this year we celebrated as a family the 200 years since the foundation of the Marist Institute. The celebrations have continued over the months since and will, I am sure, continue until the end of 2017. The General Council itself decided to mark this occasion...
