Monday of 1st Week in Lent STS. PERPETUA AND FELICITY, Martyrs Introduction Today we celebrate two women martyrs from Carthage, North Africa. Perpetua was a noblewoman, Felicity a slave girl. Both were arrested in a raid on Christians. Each had recently given birth and the Roman authorities tried to use their first newborn […]
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First Sunday Of Lent With Jesus in the Desert At our baptism, through our godparents, we said NO to Satan and his temptations before we said YES to the covenant of love, which God offered to us. There we joined Jesus in his NO to Satan and his temptations that tried to make him abandon […]
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Reflection: Luke 4: 1-13 Every year, as Lent begins, we reflect on the temptations of Jesus lest we run the risk of making choices contrary to those indicated by the word of God. We all experience this inner conflict, which St. Paul presents in Romans 7, where he says, “I am not doing what I […]
First Sunday Of Lent Jesus Went Through Our Temptations With Jesus in the Desert Greeting (See Second Reading) May the word of God be near you, on your lips and in your heart. May your lips confess here that Jesus is our Lord and Savior. May his grace be always with you. R/ And […]
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Claretians at the 5th Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly – (UNEA-5.2) Nairobi, Kenya. The 5th session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) has kicked off in Nairobi-Kenya on February 28, 2022, and ended on Friday, March 4, 2022. This Assembly is guided by the overall theme of “Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the […]
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Reflection Luke 5:27-32 During the Jubilee year of mercy in 2016, Pope Francis launched a book with the title ‘The Name of God is Mercy’. The book was a result of an interview with Pope Francis by an Italian journalist. In the interview, the Pope talked about the logic of God which is nothing but […]