Month: February 2011
In the Company of Our Saints
Each day, the sister in charge of guiding the liturgy of the day focuses special attention on a particular moment in the Eucharistic Celebration. Yesterday, copies of the Bible in different languages were carried to the altar before the Liturgy of the Word and today we were invited to ask God’s forgiveness as a group […]
ContinuaMore Tag17 February 2011
Bologna: First Stage of “The Courtyard of the Gentiles
“A space in which people can somehow connect with God without knowing him and before being introduced into his mystery” (Pope Benedict XVI, December 2009): these were the words that caused the “Courtyard of the Gentiles” to be created. The Courtyard, a structure within the Pontifical Council for Culture, is an ambit for research and […]
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From Information to Concretization.
Yesterday evening, after a private viewing of the film Men of God, directed by Xavier Beauvois, the assembly remained in hushed silence, everyone deeply moved and saddened by the events we had just seen. We contemplated the icon of a “holy community” deep in the heart of Algeria-a community whose members were rich in the […]
ContinuaMore Tag16 February 2011
The Challenge of Living Online
Today we plunged even deeper into the theme of our Interchapter Meeting thanks to the talk of Bishop Domenico Pompili, Director of the National Office for Social Communications of the Italian Bishops Conference, and one of the promoters of the Congress held in April 2010 on the subject, Digital Witnesses: Faces and Languages in the […]
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The Transforming Power of the Word
At the beginning of the “programming stage” of our meeting, Fr. Bartolomeo Sorge, sj, offered us a profound and challenging reflection on the theme: Imbued with the Word, we trace out paths of hope. Fr. Sorge’s presence among us is always a great gift because he has a very clear grasp of our Pauline mission […]
ContinuaMore Tag15 February 2011
Imbued with the Word, we trace out paths of hope
– Domenico Pompili Inhabit/Imbue* “To inhabit” is a typically human act. Only human beings “inhabit” a place. As Ivan Illich wrote: “In many languages, ‘to inhabit’ is synonymous with ‘to live.’ To ask a person, ‘Where do you live?’ means asking where it is that an individual’s daily existence shapes the world. Tell me how […]
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