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20 November 2006
VATICAN - Day pro Orantibus - A Day to recall those who help build the Kingdom of God through a contemplative life: 3,534 convents of enclosed nuns in the world
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It was Pope Pius XII who instituted on 21 November 1953, on the liturgical memory of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple, the “Day Pro Orantibus”. On this recurrence the faithful ar ...
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20 November 2006
VATICAN - Day pro Orantibus - Monks and nuns of enclosed orders are visible signs of God’s tent in the world: contribution from the Poor Clares at Otranto
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Every year, on 21 November in Italy believers are urged to celebrate the Day Pro Orantibus, to recall those men and women who still today choose to live for God alone at the margins of hu ...
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20 November 2006
VATICAN - Day pro Orantibus - Enclosed monastic life: importance and significance for the world today, reflections by enclosed Benedictine nuns at S. Maria di Rosano
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Everyone admires the beauty of a splendid rose bush or the sumptuous majesty of a great oak tree, but how many think of the root below these wonders of nature? Everyone knows the root is in ...
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18 November 2006
VATICAN - “Ecumenism of love” says Pope Benedict XVI to plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Unity of Christians: “The dialogue of charity by nature promotes and illuminates dialogue of truth… certainly relativism or easy and false Irenaenism will not help ecumenical efforts
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday 17 November Pope Benedict XVI received in audience the participants at the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the Unity of Christians. In his address ...
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18 November 2006
VATICAN - Pope Benedict’s prayer for vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Agenzia Fides thinks it opportune to recall the prayer for Vocations composed by Pope Benedict XVI for this year’s World Day of Prayer for Vocations last May, held on Sunday 7th May.
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17 November 2006
VATICAN - Holy See Press Office statement with regard to Pope Benedict XVI's meeting with Heads of Roman Curia Offices
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The following statement was issued by the Holy See Press Office in the afternoon of Thursday 16 November: “Today 16 November in the morning, in the Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father presi ...
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16 November 2006
VATICAN - Catholic prayers in the Languages of the World: Portuguese (2) - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - With regard to the necessity to foster greater awareness of the importance of prayer, let us listen to what the Blessed Virgin Mary said when she appeared to the three shepherd children at ...
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16 November 2006
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE rev. Nicola Bux and rev. Salvatore Vitiello - Priestly celibacy, horizon of a greater love
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote in his «Report on the Faith» published in 1985 «A priest is always tempted to grow accustomed to greatness, making it a routine. Today he might feel the g ...
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16 November 2006
VATICAN - The Pope’s teaching at the General Audience: “We learn from Paul that the working of the Spirit orients our life towards the great values of love, joy, communion and hope. It is up to us to experience this every day heeding the promptings of the Spirit”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - For the third Wednesday running Pope Benedict XVI devoted his General Audience teaching to the thought of Saint Paul: “We have before us a giant not only at the level of concrete aposto ...
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15 November 2006
VATICAN - Catholic prayers in the languages of the world: Portuguese (I) - The Christian Roots of the Peoples of Europe
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Portugal is a republic in the western part of the Iberian peninsula, capital Lisbon. The Gospel arrived here before the 4th century. From the fifth century to the early eighth century the ...
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15 November 2006
VATICAN - Message from Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on the occasion of the 1st West African Mission Congress in Ouagadougou: “The formation missionary of apostolic personnel is a priority among priorities”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On occasion of the 1st West African Mission Congress promoted by the Regional Bishops’ Conference of French-speaking West Africa. CERAO, which opens today in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) an ...
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15 November 2006
VATICAN - “In this misfortune experienced by the Family of Nazareth, obliged to take refuge in Egypt, we can catch a glimpse of the painful condition in which all migrants live, especially, refugees, exiles, evacuees, internally displaced persons, those who are persecuted.”: Pope Benedict XVI message for 93rd World Day for Migrants and Refugees
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Migrant Family” is the theme chosen by Pope Benedict XVI for the 93rd World Day for Migrants and Refugees, 14 January 2007. The theme, the Pope writes, “is in continuity with tho ...
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15 November 2006
VATICAN - AVE MARIA by Rev. Luciano Alimandi, “Mary, Mother of our self-giving”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Then he called his disciples and said to them 'In truth I tell you, this poor widow has put more in than all who have contributed to the treasury; for they have all put in money they cou ...
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14 November 2006
VATICAN - “STONES, SOUNDS, COLOURS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD: The Vocation of the Artist (2)
by Bishop Mauro Piacenza
Vatican City (Fides Service) - The Book of Genesis, which we have often quoted, tells us «Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters.» (Genesis 1,2) ...
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14 November 2006
VATICAN - Inter-religious Message Youth to Youth: “We young people represent a new generation and a new hope. We accept the responsibility of continuing the dialogue begun here in Assisi and we fully commit ourselves to working for justice and to be instruments of peace in our homelands and in every corner of the earth”- Youth Meeting in Assisi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue (PCID), in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, organised an International Inter-religious Youth Meet ...
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