Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and President of Caritas Internationalis, in Novena: The pandemic is making the suffering of vulnerable people – migrants and refugees, the elderly, the sick, the poor and unemployed – even deeper. We urge our governments to ensure access to healthcare and social… Read More Cardinal Chito: Isolation Shows How Much We Need Other People
via the Vatican: God saved us by serving us. We often think we are the ones who serve God. No, he is the one who freely chose to serve us, for he loved us first. It is difficult to love and not be loved in return. And it is even more difficult to serve if… Read More Pope Francis: Life is of No Use if Not Used to Serve Others
Millennial writer Patrick Manning writes: This moment is unlike anything that most of us have ever experienced. The tally of sick and deceased mounts higher every day. We turn on the news or look out our windows to see empty streets and darkened buildings. We are cut off from one another, passing our days in… Read More 5 Tips for Finding God During the Corona Crisis
via the Vatican: Like a new flame this Good News springs up in the night: the night of a world already faced with epochal challenges and now oppressed by a pandemic severely testing our whole human family. In this night, the Church’s voice rings out: “Christ, my hope, has arisen!” (Easter Sequence). This is a… Read More Pope Francis on Easter: We Need Solidarity Not Indifference, Self-centeredness, Division, and Forgetfulness
Pope Francis: “The tragedy we are experiencing summons us to take seriously the things that are serious, and not to be caught up in those that matter less; to rediscover that life is of no use if not used to serve others. For life is measured by love.”
via Vatican news: The Pope said he was thinking about children and young people stuck at home, those who have to face these difficult moments alone, and the elderly. “I have in my heart all the families,” he said, “especially those who have a loved one who is sick or who have unfortunately experienced mourning… Read More Pope Francis: Creativity of Love Can Overcome Isolation
Pope Francis: “We will be judged on our relationship with the poor. When Jesus says, “The poor you will always have with you”, he is saying, “I will always be with you in the poor; I will be present there”. This is at the center of the Gospel, so much so that we will be… Read More Quote of the Day
