A Request! Here we are, today too! We know that a lot of sisters are following the work of the Chapter and that you look forward to these daily information flashes. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you! Today we have a very important request to make. We want to ask all of you, in […]
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25 September Information flash
Music Transformed into Prayer Yesterday evening was an extraordinary gift to us: a time of intense spirituality animated by the choir of the Diocese of Rome, directed by Fr. Marco Frisina…IN PERSON! Fr. Frisina’s songs gave rhythm and depth to the itinerary of the evening, enabling us to touch the beauty of God, and his […]
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To Choose, Ponder, Formulate… This morning in chapel, where we live our times of community prayer and the Eucharistic Celebration, we found at the foot of the altar a marvelous wave of small origami birds fashioned in different colors by our Japanese sisters. In Japan, the bird is a symbol of both peace and suffering […]
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The Work Instrument At this moment, we have one and one thing only in our hands: the Work Instrument and a series of worksheets with which to pinpoint and summarize its important elements. Today we are doing this work personally, but beginning tomorrow we will be comparing ideas, followed by a discernment and choices on […]
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The Half-Way Point We have reached the “half-way point” of the Chapter, by which we mean that the time at our disposal to determine, in the light of God and under the prompting of the Spirit, the guidelines for our Congregation’s journey over the next six-year period is already more than half-over. Nevertheless, today we […]
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Pausing…To Listen to the World Listening to the world: that is what we did today with the help of Lidia Maggi (a biblical scholar and Baptist pastor), Giambattista Brunori (a journalist and author, whose books the FSP have published) and Fr. Rossano Sala (a Salesian priest appointed by Pope Francis as Special Secretary for the […]
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Have Trust…Leave Space Today we began doing serious things! No, wait! I started off wrong. We’ve been doing serious things here from day one. So let me backtrack and express myself more correctly. Today we took in hand our Work Instrument, up to now the fruit of the journey and sharing of all the sisters […]
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Share! Today’s key word is share! The Chapter Assembly was divided into six groups of about 10 members each. Their common goal: to lay on the table some particularly “hot” issues concerning our congregational life. We concentrated our attention on the aspects of it that each of us prayed about and reflected on personally yesterday: […]
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Stop! In these days, we travelled from place to place…encountered new situations…made new discoveries… inundated by a myriad of information, projects, dreams, faces, stories…. But in the end it is essential to call a halt in order to reconsider things in a new light and better grasp the important elements and questions that emerged in […]
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In the Heart of the World / 2 Here we go again: our tour continues! But please don’t consider this a mundane trip. All our journeys are apostolic ones, aimed at discovering paths, dreams, projects, toils and prospects closely linked to evangelization, to the proclamation of the Gospel in every culture, among every people and […]
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