“I have also learned that the word impossible is a lie. Nothing is impossible if you are driven by love and invest yourself fully”.Marguerite “Maggy” Barankitse is an acclaimed activist from Burundi and founder of Maison Shalom, an Continue reading →
He always felt that God was calling him. For a while, he resisted that voice, up to the point of being ready to call it quits. Eventually, he yielded to God’s will. And now he is making the best of Continue reading →
“I would like to share my personal experience of 30 years of mission, highlighting not so much what I preached, but what people, the poor and the street have taught me about who God is”. A reflection of Father Vincenzo Continue reading →
A Benedictine theologian, activist, missionary and intellectual, Sr. Mary John Mananzan speaks of the Philippines of the past and of today. From the former dictator Ferdinando Marcos to the President now in power, Rodrigo Duterte.The Church has always Continue reading →
Threatened for her struggle against the human slave trade and human organ trafficking; she is a reference point for many wishing to escape from violence and rape; for this Brazilian Sister, the fight goes on.
Introduction: Following the previous Lectio Divina, Jn 11:1-37, we now continue and go further and conclude this second part with the text Jn 11:38-45, the interaction of Jesus with Lazarus, and Jesus with the Father.
Hundreds of thousands of young people have taken to the streets from Johannesburg to London to demand radical action on the unfolding ecological emergency.
It is a time to challenge the people with the means and power to eliminate Continue reading →
What does it mean to have a vocation? The term gets batted around both in religious and secular circles and everyone assumes its meaning is clear. Is it? What’s a vocation?
Karl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, defined Continue reading →
Vocation is a gift to humanity and a guarantee of humanization for every human being. It is addressed to all and it is liberating, not reducing, human existence.
For a long time, vocation was understood as a specific mission that Continue reading →
