Family spirituality benefits everyone, says this theologian When we ask questions together, we respond to holiness in our daily lives. Christina R. Zaker weaves her lens as a woman and mother into every class she teaches at Catholic Theological Union, but that lens is particularly helpful in teaching a handful of different family spirituality classes. […]
What can you let go of this year? Trim away what no longer serves you to make room for new growth. I recently helped a friend move some exercise equipment. Mighty heavy exercise equipment to be precise. Exercise equipment that had to be taken apart in one location, then reassembled in another. Now, to his […]
To become wholly pro-life, care for fragile families A decades-long study on vulnerable families aligns closely with the themes of Catholic social teaching. Katie is a 25-year-old single mom of two young children: a preschooler and burgeoning toddler. Living in a small town in rural Pennsylvania, Katie works in child care at a local day […]
After child loss, don’t forget grieving dads How can the church see, support, and stay with fathers after the death of a child? After the death of his son Eric in a mountain climbing accident, Nicholas Wolterstorff summed up the dilemma of the grieving parent in his book, Lament for a Son (Eerdmans): “I have no explanation. […]
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A workshop on the pastoral care of youth and vocations took place in Spaichingen, Deutschland, from 02 January to 05 January facilitated by Br. Carlos Verga, CMF General Prefect for Youth and Vocation. The workshop was attended by eighteen members. Fourteen of them are young missionaries assigned to the Province from five different countries. The […]
On January 6, 2022, in the Basilica of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá in La Estrella, Antioquia, the following novices, Yuder Rafael Medina, Jaime Andrés Sarria (Province Colombia Venezuela), Anthony Eduardo Longa (Province Peru Bolivia), Jason Maicon Ansieta and Mauro Ezequiel Mamani (Province San José del Sur), who have concluded their formative experience in the Novitiate […]
On January 3, 2022, the formative experience of the MICLA Novitiate, located in the city of Cordoba (Argentina), began. The inauguration of the Novitiate house was celebrated with a Eucharist celebration, presided by Fr. Marcos Loro, Provincial Superior of Brazil and president of MICLA and accompanied by some Claretians. Later at 6:00 pm, with the […]
LOVING YOU IS A FEAST Introduction One of the features of the pagan religion was the fear of the gods, a fear the believers try to drive out by keeping meticulous and obsessive practice, taboos, of purification rites. This resulted in a distorted and distressing relationship with God. Paul calls this time “prison,” […]
Tuesday of 1st Week in Ordinary Time GOD’S SAVING POWER Extraordinary vocations are, at times, described in the bible in terms of barrenness, which, through prayer and faith in God’s power, produces life. It underlines God’s gratuitous grace, God’s power and also the difficulty, the struggle of faith, to lead to redemption. Samuel, then […]