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4 June 2009
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE : Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Let us return to announcing Grace, stronger than any human weakness!
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - «Peter, the first of the apostles, received the keys of the kingdom of heaven. With these keys he binds and looses the sins of all the saints, united inseparably to the body of Christ, and ...
3 June 2009
VATICAN - WYD Cross travels to L'Aquila, where it has “brought courage and hope in the future, to face the time of reconstruction without fear”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The pilgrimage of the World Youth Day (WYD) Cross took place from Saturday, May 30, to Tuesday, June 2 in Abruzzo, in the areas struck by the earthquake on April 6. 17 youth “missionari ...
3 June 2009
VATICAN - AVE MARIA: Mgr Luciano Alimandi - The vitality of the Church is a fruit of the Spirit
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “ When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and ...
3 June 2009
VATICAN - Year of the Priest offers priests a special opportunity for conversion, “ Christ’s manner of life may be the manner of life made ever more manifest in each one of us.” Letter from Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Dear Priests! In only about two weeks’ time, on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Friday 19th June, we will experience an intense moment of faith, closely united with the Holy F ...
2 June 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells group of new Ambassadors: “in the midst of a worldwide social and economic crisis, people must regain an awareness of the need to struggle ... in order to establish true peace, with the aim of constructing a more just and prosperous world.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI received 8 new Ambassadors to the Holy See from Mongolia, Benin, New Zealand, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Namibia, and Norway, in an audience on May 29. With ...
2 June 2009
VATICAN - Final Document from the European Meeting on Pastoral Care of Tourism Today: “pastoral care of tourism can only be a missionary pastoral care.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “As effective and active members of the Church, Christians live also in the “world of tourism” with the obvious awareness of their faith, according to each one’s competences and dif ...
1 June 2009
VATICAN - “So that Pentecost renew itself in our time, perhaps there is need -- without taking anything away from God's freedom -- for the Church to be less 'preoccupied' with activities and more dedicated to prayer,” says Benedict XVI in the Mass for Pentecost in Saint Peter's
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Among all the solemnities, Pentecost is distinguished by its importance, because in it that which Jesus himself proclaimed as being the purpose of his whole earthly mission is accomplish ...
1 June 2009
VATICAN - Pope at Regina Caeli speaks on the Holy Spirit, “who at Pentecost descended upon the nascent Church and made it missionary, sending it to proclaim to all peoples the victory of divine love over sin and death,” and especially recalls “ecclesial communities that suffer persecution for Christ's name”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Church throughout the world relives to today the Solemnity of Pentecost, the mystery of her own birth, of her own 'baptism' in the Holy Spirit, which took place in Jerusalem, 50 days ...
1 June 2009
VATICAN - Pope concludes Month of Mary in the Vatican Gardens: “In Mary's school we too learn to recognize the Holy Spirit's presence in our life, to listen to his inspirations and to follow them with docility.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the evening of Saturday, May 30, in the Vatican Gardens, there was a procession with the recitation of the Holy Rosary, to conclude the Month of May, Month of Mary. At the end of the c ...
1 June 2009
VATICAN - The Holy Father Benedict XVI will travel to the Czech Republic
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy See Press Office announced that the Holy Father Benedict XVI, accepting the invitation of the President of the Republic and the Czech Bishops' Conference (ČBK), will make an ...
1 June 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI holds a dialogue with children from the Holy Childhood Association gathered in Rome for a pilgrimage for the Year of St. Paul: “sharing, knowing Jesus, prayer, mutual listening, and solidarity are missionary tasks, because they help the Gospel become a reality in our world.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the occasion of the Year of St. Paul, the International Secretariat of the Pontifical Holy Childhood Association (POSI) and the National Secretariat of Italy of the HCA (POIM) have org ...
29 May 2009
VATICAN - Benedict XVI tells the Italian Bishops' Conference: the urgent task of education “must be rooted in the Word of God and requires spiritual discernment, cultural and social programs, and gratuitous and united witness.”
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “At a time in which relativistic and nihilistic concepts of life exercise a powerful enticement, a time in which the very legitimacy of education is placed in doubt, the principal contrib ...
28 May 2009
VATICAN - “Love for the incarnated Lord and for his visibility in the liturgy and in icons. Fidelity to baptism and commitment to live in the communion of the Body of Christ...Spirit of poverty, of sobriety, of renunciation”: the teachings of Saint Theodore the Studite, explained by Benedict XVI
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The saint that we find today, St. Theodore the Studite, brings us to a period that from the religious and political point of view was rather turbulent,” said the Holy Father Benedict X ...
28 May 2009
VATICAN - WORDS OF DOCTRINE : Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello - Faith is the real emergency
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Every so often, at almost strangely 'regular' intervals, new books appear, some “against the tide” some “scandalistic”. The second type of book, just think, written, published and ...
28 May 2009
VATICAN - Year of the Priest “must be a year that is both positive and forward looking in which the Church says to her priests above all, but also to all the Faithful and to wider society by means of the mass media, that she is proud of her priests, loves them, honors them, admires them.” Letter from Cardinal Hummes.
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “The Year for Priests, announced by our beloved Pope Benedict XVI to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the death of the saintly Curé of Ars, St. John Mary Vianney, is drawing near. It w ...
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