The Body and Blood of Christ My Body and Blood for You We admire great men and women who dedicated their lives to the good of others and were even willing to die for them. This is precisely what we celebrate whenever we come together for the Eucharist. We celebrate Jesus’ life and […]
June 5, Saturday NINETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME When Tobias thanks the angel Raphael and wants to remunerate him, the angel reveals that all the good things that happened to both the old and the young Tobias and their family came from God. They should thank God himself. Jesus, who lived in the […]
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New York, USA. The Fondazione PROCLADE Internazionale ONLUS – ONG (FPI) (Claretian Presence at the United Nations) receives accreditation from the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) communicated on May 27, 2021, to Fr. Artur Teixeira, CMF, President of Fondazione Proclade Internazionale, that, After careful […]
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Who really is John, the theologian, the author of the fourth gospel, symbolic writer who composed a wonderful spiritual gospel? The text does not name or describe him, but the ancient authors, without a shadow of a doubt, always identified him with the disciple John, son of Zebedee, brother of James, one of the twelve […]
June 4, Friday NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME The piety of old Tobias and the endurance in his suffering are finally rewarded. In God’s name, the angel Raphael, whose name means “God heals,” cures Tobias from his blindness. Using a rabbinic form of argumentation, Jesus states that he is more than a descendant of […]
June 3, Thursday NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME As the setting of Tobias is the time of the exile, marriage according to the Jewish law was very important, so as to avoid syncretism through mixed marriage. Hence, the marriage of young Tobias and his bride is presented as a beautiful marriage. As there were […]