Finding God in the events of daily life...
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 We were making up the beds when she died on the other side of the ward, only minutes after my colleague and I had given her clean sheets. Neither of us expected her to die so soon, although we knew that she was gravely ill, so ill, in fact, that we had not had time to tell her that she had AIDS. The lab tests had just come back positive. It was obvious, of course. Anybody could have diagnosed her disease, regardless of what the experts might have said. There was a certain ‘look’ that couldn’t be put into words or entered into any medical textbook… but that is a different story.
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 'Communication is not simply one dimension of evangelization, without communication there can be no evangelization.' Archbishop Claudio Celli
President, Pontifical Council for Social Communications Click to catch up on Church news from across the world Click to find the Vatican on YouTube |
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Love makes sense of everything... |
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 A Christian community is evangelized
in order to evangelize.
A light is lit
in order to give light.
A candle is not lit to be put under a bushel,
said Christ.
It is lit and put up high
in order to give light.
That is what a true community is like.
A community is a group of men and women
who have found the truth in Christ and in his Gospel,
and who follow the truth
and join together to follow it more strongly.
It is not just an individual conversion,
but a community conversion.
It is a family that believes,
a group that accepts God.
In the group, each one finds that the brother or sister
is a source of strength
and that in moments of weakness
they help one another
and, by loving one another and believing,
they give light and example.
Archbishop Oscar Romero
October 29, 1978 To read more about the life of Oscar Romero, click |
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We are the anvil, not the hammer! Unfortunately you cannot shield your children, the noble but still untempered crude metal, from the hammer-blows of hostility to the faith and hostility to the Church. But the anvil also plays a part in forging. Let your family home, your parental love and devotion, your exemplary Christian life be the strong, tough, firm and unbreakable anvil which absorbs the force of the hostile blows, which continually strengthens and fortifies the still weak powers of the young in the sacred resolve not to let themselves be diverted from the direction that leads to God.
Blessed Cardinal Clemens August von Galen
July 20 1941 To read about this tremendous man of courage who stood up to Hitler and the might of the Nazis, click here |
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