Religious vocation: A perpetual commitment to Christ https://www.globalsistersreport.org/node/29580
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Monday, March 10, 2025
Spiritual Exercises of the Curia: The end of all judgment - Vatican News
Spiritual Exercises of the Curia: The end of all judgment - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2025-03/roman-curia-spiritual-exercises-pasolini-second-reflection.html
Spiritual Exercises of the Curia: The first death - Vatican News
Spiritual Exercises of the Curia: The first death - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2025-03/spiritual-exercises-of-the-curia-the-first-death.html
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Prayers of the Rosary
Prayers of the Rosary: The Apostles' Creed I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the...
Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus https://www.usccb.org/prayers/litany-sacred-heart-jesus
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Friday, March 7, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Monday, March 3, 2025
Religious Life in Post-Pandemic America: Change, Resilience, and Stability - ZENIT - English
Religious Life in Post-Pandemic America: Change, Resilience, and Stability - ZENIT - English https://zenit.org/2025/03/02/religious-life-in-post-pandemic-america-change-resilience-and-stability/?eti=22349
How the COVID-19 pandemic affected U.S. religious life
How the COVID-19 pandemic affected U.S. religious life https://pewrsr.ch/4hWTXYC
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Friday, February 28, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
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Thursday, February 20, 2025
A gift of elder adulthood: An invitation to an inner journey
A gift of elder adulthood: An invitation to an inner journey https://www.globalsistersreport.org/node/294046
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Congregation of Holy Cross set for mission beyond borders - Vatican News
Congregation of Holy Cross set for mission beyond borders - Vatican News
We are Educators in the Faith.
We are a global community of pontifical right: priests and brothers who wish to abandon all to follow Christ. United by our motto — Ave Crux, Spes Unica (Hail the Cross, our Only Hope) — we are sent forth to make God known, loved, and served in ministries of education, parish, and mission throughout the world.
https://www.holycrossusa.org/
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2025-02/congregation-of-holy-cross-year-of-mission-beyond-borders.html
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Pope Francis: 'Spread Christ's message throughout the world' - Vatican News
Pope Francis: 'Spread Christ's message throughout the world' - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-02/pope-remembers-20th-anniversary-of-theology-faculty-of-triveneto.html
Are we stuck in a Catch-22 about ordained ministry for laywomen?
Are we stuck in a Catch-22 about ordained ministry for laywomen? https://www.globalsistersreport.org/node/293836
POST-SYNODAL APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION CHRISTIFIDELES LAICI OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II ON THE VOCATION AND THE MISSION OF THE LAY FAITHFUL IN THE CHURCH AND IN THE WORLD
Are we stuck in a Catch-22 about ordained ministry for laywomen? https://www.globalsistersreport.org/node/293836
POST-SYNODAL
APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION
CHRISTIFIDELES LAICI
OF
HIS HOLINESS
JOHN PAUL II
ON THE VOCATION AND THE MISSION
OF THE LAY FAITHFUL
IN THE CHURCH AND IN THE WORLD
INTRODUCTION
1. THE LAY MEMBERS of Christ's Faithful People (Christifideles Laici), whose "Vocation and Mission in the Church and in the World Twenty Years after the Second Vatican Council" was the topic of the 1987 Synod of Bishops, are those who form that part of the People of God which might be likened to the labourers in the vineyard mentioned in Matthew's Gospel: "For the Kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the labourers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard" (Mt 20:1-2).
The gospel parable sets before our eyes the Lord's vast vineyard and the multitude of persons, both women and men, who are called and sent forth by him to labour in it. The vineyard is the whole world (cf. Mt 13:38), which is to be transformed according to the plan of God in view of the final coming of the Kingdom of God.
You Go Into My Vineyard Too
2. "And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace; and to them he said, 'You go into the vineyard too'" (Mt 20:3-4).
From that distant day the call of the Lord Jesus "You go into my vineyard too" never fails to resound in the course of history: it is addressed to every person who comes into this world.
In our times, the Church after Vatican II in a renewed outpouring of the Spirit of Pentecost has come to a more lively awareness of her missionary nature and has listened again to the voice of her Lord who sends her forth into the world as "the universal sacrament of salvation"[1].
You go too. The call is a concern not only of Pastors, clergy, and men and women religious. The call is addressed to everyone: lay people as well are personally called by the Lord, from whom they receive a mission on behalf of the Church and the world. In preaching to the people Saint Gregory the Great recalls this fact and comments on the parable of the labourers in the vineyard: "Keep watch over your manner of life, dear people, and make sure that you are indeed the Lord's labourers. Each person should take into account what he does and consider if he is labouring in the vineyard of the Lord"[2].
The Council, in particular, with its rich doctrinal, spiritual and pastoral patrimony, has written as never before on the nature, dignity, spirituality, mission and responsibility of the lay faithful. And the Council Fathers, re-echoing the call of Christ, have summoned all the lay faithful, both women and men, to labour in the vineyard: "The Council, then, makes an earnest plea in the Lord's name that all lay people give a glad, generous, and prompt response to the impulse of the Holy Spirit and to the voice of Christ, who is giving them an especially urgent invitation at this moment. Young people should feel that this call is directed to them in particular, and they should respond to it eagerly and magnanimously. The Lord himself renews his invitation to all the lay faithful to come closer to him every day, and with the recognition that what is his is also their own (Phil 2:5) they ought to associate themselves with him in his saving mission. Once again he sends them into every town and place where he himself is to come (cf. Lk 10:1)"[3].
Monday, February 17, 2025
Gospel in Art: They demanded a sign from heaven
Gospel in Art: They demanded a sign from heaven https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/51743
Sts. Seven Fonders of the Order of the Servants of Mary - Information on the Saint of the Day - Vatican News
Sts. Seven Fonders of the Order of the Servants of Mary - Information on the Saint of the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/02/17/sts--seven-fonders-of-the-order-of-the-servants-of-mary-among-wh.html
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Uncomfortable Martyrdoms
Uncomfortable Martyrdoms https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/uncomfortable-martyrdoms?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=novashare
Friday, February 14, 2025
Religious sisters are “the foot soldiers of Christ” in Zimbabwe, says bishop - ZENIT - English
Religious sisters are “the foot soldiers of Christ” in Zimbabwe, says bishop - ZENIT - English: Bishop Raymond Mupandasekwa said the Church has been slow to recognize the contribution of sisters to the work of the Church, but fortunately in Zimbabwe this is beginning to change.
Thursday, February 13, 2025
When the worst thing happens, it's an invitation to transformation
When the worst thing happens, it's an invitation to transformation https://www.globalsistersreport.org/node/293541
Saint Francis and St Clare Fratelli Tutti
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Join Us for the 2025 Novena & Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage - Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Love, laundry and living the mission as an associate
Love, laundry and living the mission as an associate https://www.globalsistersreport.org/node/180165
As US associates track to surpass women religious, both face 'turning point'
As US associates track to surpass women religious, both face 'turning point' https://www.globalsistersreport.org/node/182813
Growing number of associates partner with religious communities to quench spiritual thirst
Growing number of associates partner with religious communities to quench spiritual thirst https://www.globalsistersreport.org/node/180245
As US congregations shrink, associates contemplate a future independent of sisters
As US congregations shrink, associates contemplate a future independent of sisters https://www.ncronline.org/node/293266
Monday, February 10, 2025
Pope Francis asks all Catholics to pray for vocations: here is the video - ZENIT - English
Pope Francis asks all Catholics to pray for vocations: here is the video - ZENIT - English: The Pope invites us to pray during February “that the ecclesial community might welcome the desires and doubts of those young people who feel a call to serve Christ’s mission in the priesthood and religious life.”In the video illustrating his prayer intention, Pope Francis recalls his own vocation, as a youth. He affirms that by listening to young people, they might welcome God’s call “in ways that better serve the Church and the world today.” The Pope invites us to believe in young people, and above all, to trust in God who is the one who “calls everyone.”
Mary's Visitation to Elizabeth explained beautifully and briefly by Pope Francis - ZENIT - English
Mary's Visitation to Elizabeth explained beautifully and briefly by Pope Francis - ZENIT - English: Pope's General Audience, February 5, 2025 on Mary's visitation to St. Elizabeth
Sunday, February 9, 2025
“Fratelli tutti”: short summary of Pope Francis's Social Encyclical - Vatican News
“Fratelli tutti”: short summary of Pope Francis's Social Encyclical - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-10/fratelli-tutti-pope-fraternity-social-friendship-short-summary.html
Saturday, February 8, 2025
St. Josephine Bakhita - Information on the Saint of the Day - Vatican News
Her life had truly become “fortunate,” as she said herself: “If I were to meet those men who abducted me, or even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for it that hadn’t happened, I
would not be a Christian and a religious today.”
St. Josephine Bakhita - Information on the Saint of the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/02/08/st--josephine-bakhita--virgin.html
Friday, February 7, 2025
How do religious vows give light to men and women of our time? Pope Francis answers - ZENIT - English
How do religious vows give light to men and women of our time? Pope Francis answers - ZENIT - English: Pope's homily on the eve of the Solemnity of Consecrated Life 2025 on how through the vows one is a bearer of light for the men and women of this time.
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Pope’s February prayer intention: ‘For vocations to priesthood, religious life’ - Vatican News
Pope’s February prayer intention: ‘For vocations to priesthood, religious life’ - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-02/pope-francis-february-prayer-intention-vocations.html
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 5
ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 5
https://www.jesuit.org.sg/feb-5th-pedro-arrupe-sj/
St. Vodoaldus, 725 A.D. Hermit, sometimes called Voel and Vodalus. A native of Ireland or Scotland, he journeyed to France and worked for a time as a missionary. He later lived as a hermit beside St. Mary's Convent at Soissons. Vodoaldus was a great miracle worker.
B.. ELISABETH CANORI MORA, MOTHER, was an Italian Roman Catholic professed member from the Secular Trinitarians. Mora married an abrasive husband who remained unfaithful and abusive to her but at the time of her death secured his repentance - he ended up as a priest. Feb. 5
ST. ADELAIDE, ABBESS, Abbess and miracle worker, the daughter of Megingoz, the count of Guelders, also called Alice. Adelaide entered the Ursuline Convent in Cologne. Her parents then founded the Convent of Villich near Bonan, and she became abbess there, introducing the Rule of St. Benedict to the community. Feb. 5
St_Helens_Bishopsgate-The church of St Helen's dates from the 12th century and a priory of Benedictine nuns was founded there in 1210 England
Rosary Pamphlet - Paulist Evangelization MinistriesPaulist Evangelization Ministries
Rosary Pamphlet - Paulist Evangelization MinistriesPaulist Evangelization Ministries: Click here to download the Paulist Prison Ministries How to Pray the Rosary Pamphlet! (PDF)
St. Peter parishioners give rosary presentation for inmates
St. Peter parishioners give rosary presentation for inmates: Photo: St. Peter parishioners Theresa Knapp (left) and Peggy Ocken (right) are pictured in Limon on Sept. 30. The two women traveled to the Limon Correctional Facility to teach inmates about praying the rosary. (Photo by Deacon Cliff Donnelly)
LIMON. Two local women are being lauded by their parish for presenting the rosary to correctional facility prisoners in what they hope will result in a closer relationship with Jesus Christ.
Theresa Knapp and Peggy Ocken, parishioners at St....
The Mother and Queen Men's Rosary is a large Schoenstatt apostolate involving more than one million men. They meet frequently to pray the rosary and, in many places, they engage in social work. Now, for the first time, a prison in the state of Piauí has a Rosary group.
The Mother and Queen Men's Rosary is a large Schoenstatt apostolate involving more than one million men. They meet frequently to pray the rosary and, in many places, they engage in social work. Now, for the first time, a prison in the state of Piauí has a Rosary group. #prison #jail #inmate #drugtesting #prisoners #prison #firstday #federalprison #portialouder
#devasted #inmate #prison #prisonstories #prisonuniform #fear #gangs
https://schoenstatt.com/prisoners-in-brazil-form-a-mother-and-queen-mens-rosary-group/
Under Pope Francis, it's management, not ministry, for Catholic women
Under Pope Francis, it's management, not ministry, for Catholic women https://www.ncronline.org/node/292671
A light of revelation: The power of witness of consecrated women
A light of revelation: The power of witness of consecrated women https://www.globalsistersreport.org/node/292576
Monday, February 3, 2025
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Opportunities to show God's love flow endlessly
Opportunities to show God's love flow endlessly https://www.globalsistersreport.org/node/287581
Juliet Mousseau
November 22, 2024
When I entered the Society of the Sacred Heart, I didn’t know that "Sacred Heart" referred to centuries of thought and devotion to the heart of Jesus. I knew only that the charism of the sisters I met spoke to my heart and drew me in. They dedicated their lives to sharing the love of God with everyone, and I was hooked. As I learned more about the foundation of the Society, with its origins in the dark times of the French Revolution, I grew to believe, along with the Society, that love shared can transform the world. I also grew in my experience of the mystery of God's love and my own ability (and limitations) to share it with others.
In his new encyclical on the Sacred Heart, Dilexit nos, Pope Francis describes how St. Thérèse of Lisieux desired the love of Christ to fill her heart, so that she could then spread it out into the world and let it transform others. It was not enough for her to share her own love with others. She wanted to be a conduit, an instrument bringing God's own love into the world. She knew that the world always needs more love, more transformation, more kindness.
I can't think of a better way to live, especially in a world that seems so broken right now. In my own formation as a Religious of the Sacred Heart, I had to learn that my capacity to take on the burdens of others was greatly limited — I could only hand over their cares to God. The image that worked for me was that of an aqueduct: I had to allow the sorrow and pain of others to move through me to God because those burdens were too much for me to handle. And the reverse as well: While my love is good, it is tiny in comparison to God's infinity. If I can let God's love pass through me to others, it can transform everyone it encounters.
This November, love is needed more than ever, in our country and in our world. For the last few decades, our political system in the United States has been so divisive that a tiny percentage of voters tips the scales to elect the president of the United States. Whether I find myself on the winning or the losing side, my heart aches for the way people treat each other. We all lose when we allow our humanity to be so divided, and when — worse — we forget that even "they" are human, too. It honestly doesn't matter who "they" are: God loves them more than I can possibly imagine.
by Juliet Mousseau
Contributor
November 22, 2024
When I entered the Society of the Sacred Heart, I didn’t know that "Sacred Heart" referred to centuries of thought and devotion to the heart of Jesus. I knew only that the charism of the sisters I met spoke to my heart and drew me in. They dedicated their lives to sharing the love of God with everyone, and I was hooked. As I learned more about the foundation of the Society, with its origins in the dark times of the French Revolution, I grew to believe, along with the Society, that love shared can transform the world. I also grew in my experience of the mystery of God's love and my own ability (and limitations) to share it with others.
In his new encyclical on the Sacred Heart, Dilexit nos, Pope Francis describes how St. Thérèse of Lisieux desired the love of Christ to fill her heart, so that she could then spread it out into the world and let it transform others. It was not enough for her to share her own love with others. She wanted to be a conduit, an instrument bringing God's own love into the world. She knew that the world always needs more love, more transformation, more kindness.
I can't think of a better way to live, especially in a world that seems so broken right now. In my own formation as a Religious of the Sacred Heart, I had to learn that my capacity to take on the burdens of others was greatly limited — I could only hand over their cares to God. The image that worked for me was that of an aqueduct: I had to allow the sorrow and pain of others to move through me to God because those burdens were too much for me to handle. And the reverse as well: While my love is good, it is tiny in comparison to God's infinity. If I can let God's love pass through me to others, it can transform everyone it encounters.
This November, love is needed more than ever, in our country and in our world. For the last few decades, our political system in the United States has been so divisive that a tiny percentage of voters tips the scales to elect the president of the United States. Whether I find myself on the winning or the losing side, my heart aches for the way people treat each other. We all lose when we allow our humanity to be so divided, and when — worse — we forget that even "they" are human, too. It honestly doesn't matter who "they" are: God loves them more than I can possibly imagine.
If I can let God's love pass through me to others, it can transform everyone it encounters.
Dilexit nos is a reminder of God's immense love for the world, a reminder that we are created in God's image and therefore we, too, are created to love. Pope Francis says:
In union with Christ, amid the ruins we have left in this world by our sins, we are called to build a new civilization of love. That is what it means to make reparation as the heart of Christ would have us do. Amid the devastation wrought by evil, the heart of Christ desires that we cooperate with him in restoring goodness and beauty to our world.
His words remind me of the call St. Francis of Assisi heard from Christ on the cross, to "rebuild my church, which is falling into ruin." If Francis of Assisi strove to place brick upon brick, and then to reinvigorate the local Christian community as well, how do we "build a new civilization of love" except by cooperating with God's love in our world, one act of love at a time?
But how? How do we demonstrate to God that we return love for love? Pope Francis draws devotion to the Sacred Heart into two areas of our lives: our interior spirit and our outward expressions of love to our neighbors. While, inwardly, we may be praising God with song (like St. Cecilia, whose feast day we celebrate today, Nov. 22), outward expressions of praise and love resound in our concrete activities. "Building a new civilization of love" cannot be accomplished without loving interactions with other people. Of course, the Gospels illuminate the way for us: We love God by feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, consoling those who are suffering … There are infinite ways to share the love of God with those around us.
In our world, maybe it can even be not doing something: not forwarding that email that contains unverified catastrophic warnings or that spreads paranoia about a political party or a group of people or an individual. Maybe it means ignoring hateful language that is directed at us, responding with kindness and gentleness rather than in anger. It could also be much harder: speaking up to let someone know that their words hurt, or defending the human rights of someone or a group who is being attacked. The opportunities to show God's love are endless. We need only open our eyes and call on the courage within our hearts to do something.
The election is over, and with it goes the hate-filled divisive advertising that called on each of us to see the other side as the enemy. We need to rebuild our culture now, so that we see ourselves as one human family. Half of the family is not our enemy. We are meant to be united in relationship and friendship with one another.
Building a new civilization of love is not just about rebuilding our world to reflect and spread God’s infinite love for all of creation. It’s also about finding our own fulfillment. Made in God's image and likeness (Genesis 1:26-27), we are only fulfilled when we share God's love with others. As Pope Francis puts it:
Whenever a person thinks, questions and reflects on his or her true identity, strives to understand the deeper questions of life and to seek God, or experiences the thrill of catching a glimpse of truth, it leads to the realization that our fulfilment as human beings is found in love. In loving, we come to know the purpose and goal of our existence in this world. Everything comes together in a state of coherence and harmony.
The challenge today, it seems to me, rests in setting aside the weapons of hatred and division, picking up instead the tools of love that actively build a new civilization. Trusting that God's love works through us, let's seek unity together.
If I can let God's love pass through me to others, it can transform everyone it encounters. tweet
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