Everything started with Ludovica’s preparation for Confirmation… she felt that the time had arrived, the time was right…whilst continuing to study for her exams she decided to share our life, to see first-hand what the religious life was all about. Ludovica accompanied us on our mission to Argentina and Mexico, she followed our catechesis in […]
Lord, teach us how to pray!
Let us follow the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI’s catechesis on the theme of prayer: Christian Prayer The Holy Father’s catechesis on prayer in the ancient civilisations. Click here to read more… Catechesis on Prayer God has placed in all men the desire for God which is expressed through prayer… Click here to […]
The Three White Loves – The Holy Father
Love of the Holy Father After the Holy Eucharist and the Immaculate Virgin Mary, our ‘third white love’, to which the Virgin of Revelation referred to on the 12th April 1947, is the Holy Father. It is the third fundamental column of the Catholic Faith, and without it no-one can truly refer to themselves as […]
The Three White Loves – The Immaculate Virgin Mary
Love for the Immaculate Virgin Mary Mary is the Mother of the Church and our tender Mother who takes care of her children and doesn’t ever leave them alone. At the Grotto of Tre Fontane, Mary, appearing to Bruno, revealed to him that She was always close to him and never abandoned him. Even when […]
The Three White Loves – The Eucharist
Love for the Eucharist The gift of the Eucharist is the gift per excellence, the greatest gift that God could give to humanity. It is a mystery of God’s love that He comes to us hidden under the form of bread and wine to stay with us always. In St John’s Gospel we read that […]
25th March – The Solemnity of the Annunciation to Most Holy Mary
In this month we would like to consider the part of St Luke’s Gospel that recounts the episode of the Archangel Gabriel’s Annunciation to Mary (Lk 1:26-38). This part of the Gospel starts with the apparition of the angel Gabriel “to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and […]
The Empty Tomb
Mark’s Gospel (Mk 16:1-8) tells us that early in the morning, on the first day of the week, as the sun was rising, Mary Magdala, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome went to the tomb with spices to anoint the body of Jesus. The women were asking each other who would remove the large […]
Porta Fidei
The Year of Faith “And when they arrived [in Antioch], they called the church together and reported what God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.” (Acts 14:27) With this citation the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, initiated his Apostolic Letter Porta Fidae that inaugurated the Year […]
The Journey of Faith
The profound crisis of faith that has affected many people arriving at the stage where the faith is no longer today considered an obvious precondition for life in society and so the Holy Father Benedict XVI has decided to introduce the Year of Faith so that every Christian may rediscover their journey of faith. The […]
The Touch of God reflected in Art
This month’s newsletter is dedicated to St Teresa of Jesus, better known as St Teresa of Avila, because her 500th anniversary celebrations open this month and will last throughout 2015. St Teresa is famous as she was the reformer of the Carmelite order. Although she entered the convent at 20 years of age, her real […]