“I arrived in Ecuador in 1983 and I’m still here, more than 40 years later. I came with a dream I still have but I feel that my strength is decreasing and when I look around, I see situations that Continue reading →
At last year’s World Youth Day, more than a million young people shared among themselves social friendship. Pope Francis calls this universal fraternity, proving a new fraternal order and world social experience possible.
God of Comfort, send your Spirit to encompass all those whose lives are torn apart by violence and death in Israel and Palestine. You are the Advocate of the oppressed and the One whose eye is on the sparrow. Let Continue reading →
One of the classic definitions of prayer tells us that prayer is raising the mind and heart to God. In essence, that says it all. The problem is that often we raise our minds but not our hearts. Our prayer Continue reading →
“In Antioch, the disciples were for the first time, called Christians.”
(Read Acts of the Apostles 11: 19-30)
In the beginning, the Apostles were addressed to Jews and proselytes of Jerusalem. Later, some Hellenists (emigrant Jews) who had converted to Continue reading →