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11 April 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “'Why look among the dead for someone who is alive?”
Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “'Why look among the dead for someone who is alive?” (Lk 24,5). A question valid also in our epoch which challenges those who search for the Lord Jesus as if he were a character of the ...
11 April 2007
VATICAN - The four “Acts” basic Christian prayers
The Act of Charity (I)
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After reflecting during Lent on the Act of Contrition today we begin our meditation on the Act of Charity, or Act of Love.
Act of Love: O Lord God, I love you above all things
and I lov ...
11 April 2007
ASIA/THAILAND - Easter at Rayong Camillian Centre: eight children are baptised, tireless pastoral care and therapy for children with HIV/AIDS
Rayong (Fides Service) - Fr. Giovanni Contarin in charge of Rayong Camillian Centre which for the past ten years has provided treatment and pastoral care for children with AIDS, (see Fides 8/1/2007), sent the following E ...
11 April 2007
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Life and Family Foundation" established by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference will help society in activities to sustain and defend life and the family
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - A Life and Family Foundation established by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference during a recent plenary assembly, begins to operate today 11 April. The offices at the Edificio Esperanza in the cit ...
11 April 2007
AMERICA/ECUADOR - Towards CAM 3: first draft working paper; missionary key booklets for young people; “the missionary dimension of the Church" theme for next Bishops’ Conference plenary
Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Preparations continue for the 3rd American Mission Congress CAM 3 to be held next year in Quito, Ecuador 12 - 17 August, according to CAM 3 executive secretary Osvaldo Fierro Terán. During a meet ...
11 April 2007
ASIA/CHINA - Catholics in Beijing celebrated Easter with joy and deep emotion. A priest in Beijing says "I like the other priests lost my voice, hearing confessions, preparing and celebrating Mass, but the fruits of evangelisation thanks to the Risen Lord are a great reward".
Beijing (Fides Service) - Catholics in Beijing celebrated Easter with joy and deep emotion. "Joy because after so much suffering in his passion Christ is risen and this reflects on our own faith life and gives us new ho ...
8 April 2007
VATICAN - The Pope presides Mass in St Peter's Square on Easter Sunday
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At 10.30 am on 8 April Easter Sunday Pope Benedict XVI presided the celebration of Mass in St Peter's Square in the presence of the faithful of Rome and from all over the world, At the end ...
7 April 2007
VATICAN - “This is the joy of the Easter Vigil: we are free. In the resurrection of Jesus, love has been shown to be stronger than death, stronger than evil ”: the Pope presides Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - At 10pm on Holy Saturday 7 April, the Pope presided the solemn Easter Vigil Mass in St Peter's starting in the Hall with the blessing of the Easter fire and the lighting of the Paschal Cand ...
6 April 2007
VATICAN - “ Let us pray to the Lord that he will truly give us a heart of flesh, that he will make us messengers of his love not only with words, but with our entire life”: the Pope speaks to the people gathered at the Colosseum on Good Friday evening.
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the evening of Good Friday Pope Benedict XVI preside the devotion of the Stations of the Cross broadcast live on world television. The meditations this year were written by Mgr Gianfranc ...
5 April 2007
VATICAN - Letter to Cardinal Eduardo Martínez Somalo on the occasion of his resignation from the office of Camerlengo of Holy Roman Church
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI thanked Cardinal Eduardo Martínez Somalo at the end of his service as Camerlengo of Holy Roman Church, with these words: “On the day dedicated to the So ...
5 April 2007
VATICAN - “ Let us ask the Lord to keep all hostility away from our hearts, to remove from us every feeling of self-sufficiency and truly to clothe ourselves with the vestment of love, so that we may be luminous persons and not belong to darkness. ”: the Pope told his priests during the Chrism Mass in the morning of Holy Thursday
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Benedict XVI presided this morning in St Peter's Basilica the Chrism mass with the clergy of his diocese of Rome Cardinals and Bishops also concelebrated. During the Mass th ...
5 April 2007
VATICAN - “Thus, the Cross was at the centre of the new Passover of Jesus. From it came the new gift brought by him, and so it lives on for ever in the Blessed Eucharist in which, down the ages, we can celebrate the new Passover with the Apostles”: the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI presides Holy Mass of the Lord's Supper .
Vatican City (Fides Service) - In the Afternoon of Holy Thursday 5 April, in the Basilica of St John Lateran, the Pope presided the mass of the Lord's Supper during which he washed of the feet of twelve young men members ...
4 April 2007
AMERICA/URUGUAY - To reawaken in our diocesan Church commitment to the evangelising mission entrusted by Jesus”: new diocesan pastoral plan to be consigned during Holy Thursday Mass of the Chrism
Mercedes (Agenzia Fides) - During the solemn Mass of the Chrism on Holy Thursday, at Saint Joseph the Worker parish in Mercedes, the Bishop Carlos Collazzi will officially consign the new Diocesan Pastoral Plan to his di ...
4 April 2007
VATICAN - Presentation on 13 April of a new book by Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI "Gesù di Nazaret"
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday 13 April at 4pm in the Synod Hall above the Paul VI Audience Hall, there will be the presentation of a new Book written by Pope Benedict XVI with the title Jesus of Nazareth. The ...
4 April 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - The Christian Holy Week
by Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 2nd April, the second anniversary of the death of John Paul II, the Gospel of Holy Monday took us to Bethany, a place Jesus loved, the home of his friends Lazarus, Martha and Mary who ac ...
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