Word and life

This moment of prayer is suitable for individuals or groups. The structure follows an hour of listening to the Word in three parts: an invocation of the Holy Spirit, a guided reading of the Letter to the Colossians, and a concluding prayer using the traditional ‘Litanies in Honor of St. Paul’. Download the text.

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This year marks the seventh edition of Sunday of the Word of God. It falls on January 25th, a date the liturgy links to Saul’s encounter on the road to Damascus—a journey defined by revelation, vocation, and profound inner enlightenment. As we acknowledge the vital roles played by the Society of St. Paul and the Community of St. Giles in establishing this day, we approach this year’s observance with particular intensity. The theme for 2026 presents several challenging questions: What makes our service to the Word unique or “unprecedented” compared to other publishers? What keeps our work vibrant and reverent…

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In light of this phrase from Luke, Pauline biblical scholar Fr. Giacomo Perego and artist Alice Ferrari, from the Centro Aletti, retrace the profound meaning of ministry in its origins, rediscovering the Trinitarian dynamics that characterise it. Through a fruitful dialogue between the Word of God and visual imagery, the resulting reflection offers a fresh perspective—not only on the various ministries but also on the mystery of Christmas that surrounds us during these days. The encounter was sponsored by the Centro Culturale San Paolo in collaboration with SOBICAIN.

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With over 10,000 followers, Fra’ Roberto Pasolini’s YouTube channel (@fr_pasolini) deserves to be widely promoted: it offers numerous biblical resources that help believers navigate the different liturgical seasons, accompanying their journey throughout the year with the Word. It provides not only the meditations he has held at the Pontifical Household, but also other materials (lectio divina, thematic deep dives, meditations) that touch upon various aspects of the life of faith, starting from its great pillars: the resurrection, the incarnation, life in Christ, and being the Church.

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The Biblical Studies and Spiritual Care: Intersections of Pastoral Practice and Biblical Hermeneutics unit, part of the annual Society of Biblical Literature Meeting, has announced a focused initiative: a call for articles and biblical studies that examine the experience of incarceration and related themes of freedom, redemption, rebirth, and human dignity. The central objective is to demonstrate how the Word continues to resonate in harsh and challenging contexts, such as prisons and immigrant detention centres, as well as in complex experiences involving pushbacks, expulsions, and marginalisation. Submissions are welcomed from both faculty academics and advanced students who are about to…

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Maria Soave Buscemi, a fidei donum theologian, has spent over three decades promoting the popular reading of the Scriptures in Amazonian communities. She describes her experience of walking alongside these people, and the deep lessons learned, as a parallel to the disciples of Emmaus. Her personal testimony is featured in a recent Mondo e Missione interview. Click here.

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With this question, Anna Neviani, a reader of the weekly Credere, asks the editor Fr. Vincenzo Vitale, a Pauline priest, esteemed biblical scholar and excellent journalist. We reproduce Don Vincenzo’s answer and the question in its entirety, certain that it may be of benefit to the users of our news as well. Dear Fr. Vincenzo, is there any news about the families of Jesus’ apostles, or at least those who were married (like Peter), their children and who was in charge of their livelihood, since the apostles were engaged in preaching? Dear Anna, from the Gospels and more generally from…

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To officially change the name “Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul” to “Feast of the Vocation of Saint Paul” is the the petition that the Secretariat of the Ecumenical Activity addressed in June 2022 to the Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Monsignor Arthur Roche, and to the secretary, Monsignor Vittorio Francesco Viola. The request, approved by the Assembly of the Interfaith Association for Ecumenism and Dialogue starting from the Jewish-Christian dialogue gathered in Florence on 24 April 2022, was also signed by 164 signatories among bishops, theologians,…

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Many think that Martin Luther (1483-1546) was the first to promote the translation of the Holy Texts into the various national languages. In fact, the first Italian version of the Bible was printed in 1471 by a Camaldolense monk: Nicolò Malermi. In the first decades of the fifteenth century, the translation of Antonio Brucioli, the first layman to have ventured into this undertaking, was also a success. For the types of Lucantonio Giunti, the humanist first published a translation of the Gospels: it immediately spread, thanks to the small size that allowed to market the work in pocket formats, and…

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Easter is the most important feast for Christians. and etymologically means “step” or “passage”. What is behind this term? Why do we eat lamb at Holy Week? Why is this solemnity associated with eggs? And why is the date of Easter not fixed like Christmas, but changed from year to year? What are the reference texts that allow us to understand what happened on this day? And again: why does the Pope give the blessing “Urbi et orbi” on Easter day? These and other questions are answered by a beautiful article in the weekly Famiglia Christiana. Read it here..

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