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Fr. Ambrogio Mazzai: The Gospels via Tik Tok
He spreads the Gospel via tik tok, the social network of the very young. Video after video, in a concise, ironic and direct style, he recounts the lives of the Saints, “men like us who have done things as extraordinary as they are normal, to be taken as an example.” He answers questions, the most disparate, about faith and Christianity with the aim of making people think, ready joke and free spirit, provoking just enough to provoke a direct and possibly even constructive confrontation. In doing so, he has accumulated in just over a year over 350 thousand followers, supporters…
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What About the Wives and Children of the Apostles?
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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Nuances
In the “aftermath” of Pentecost it may be useful to retrace one by one the different nuances of the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Accompanied by the biblical and spiritual catechesis by Fr Fabio Rosini, held on Vatican Radio some years ago, let us explore these nuances . The individual interventions, which lasts for about 20 minutes each, are all available for free on a Christian youtube channel. Led by Monia Parente, the program “The fruits of the Spirit” is a great way to internalize what in these days we have celebrated and lived. Good listening!
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Menorah: A Video Game About Jewish History in Rome
A video game to tell the 2000 years of Jewish history in Rome. Menorah – The Game is the virtual treasure hunt starring two young people on the trail of symbols and traditions that testify to the millennial presence of the Jewish community in the capital. Promoted by the Foundation for the Jewish Museum of Rome, the initiative is a piece of the project ‘edutainment’, which intends to retrace the Jewish history through the game. In the game the goal is to find the Menorah, the candlestick with seven arms, that in ancient times was lit inside the Temple of…
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The Bible in A Year Podcast… for Kids!
Teddy Howell, a 9 year old third grader in Michigan emulates the popular media priest, Fr. Mike Schmitz’ Bible in a Year Podcast. Totally inspired by Fr. Mike, young Teddy, also wants to be a podcasting priest like Schmitz when he grows up. With the help of his parents, Stephani and Sean, Teddy launched his “Kid’s Bible in a Year with Teddy” podcast last March 12. New episodes are released every Sunday and Wednesday. Each session, Teddy leads a prayer and then reads a passage from the Great Adventure Kids Catholic Bible Chronicles, a book from publisher Ascension that provides…
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The “Minute of God” Which Lasted 38 Years
New and extraordinary experiences often flourish around the Word of God. One of these involved the Eudist father Rafael García Herreros. On February 8, 1950, he suggested to the state television of Cartagena (Colombia) that he could hold a short radio program entitled El Minuto de Dios (The Minute of God). Remembering those times, he said in an interview with the newspaper EL TIEMPO: “It came to my mind one day, and it was an intuition, that there had to be a minute on earth of Divinity so that there would be peace , silence, faith and joy in this…
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“The Bible in the city”: Venice Hosts Reading the Whole Bible (May 4-14)
Venice will host the event “The Bible in the city” from May 4 to 14, an ecumenical initiative of reading the Bible in different places of the historic center and the mainland. The unprecedented initiative was organized by the Local Council of Christian Churches of Venice to celebrate the XXX years of its establishment: in different places of the city (historic center and mainland), there will be held the full reading of the Bible according to the calendar presented in the reference site: referenciabibbiaincitta.it. The proposal is intended to recall that all Scripture is inspired by God, that the Bible…
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Celebrating the Bible in the Month of May: Festival Biblico’s19th Edition
May is the month of the Biblical Festival in different host cities: Alba, Chioggia, Padua, Verona, Vicenza, Vittorio Veneto, Treviso. Chapters 1-11 of the Book of Genesis, which open the great poem of creation, sink with extreme power into questions that are still at the center of our living in the world and that we find in the complex reality that surrounds us: its put man as an object for review and exposes his fragility. The chapters places man at the center of the scene until the blood spilled between man and man becomes the leading actor, thus breaking the…
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Celebrating the Bible in the Month of May: Festival Biblico’s19th Edition
May is the month of the Biblical Festival in different host cities: Alba, Chioggia, Padua, Verona, Vicenza, Vittorio Veneto, Treviso. Chapters 1-11 of the Book of Genesis, which open the great poem of creation, sink with extreme power into questions that are still at the center of our living in the world and that we find in the complex reality that surrounds us: its put man as an object for review and exposes his fragility. The chapters places man at the center of the scene until the blood spilled between man and man becomes the leading actor, thus breaking the…
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Fr. Alex Dehò: Living the Liturgy of Life
Is it possible to read the liturgy in everyday life? Can we, as Christians, make it speak to us outside of ritual? These are the questions that author Fr. Alessandro Dehò proposes for each of us in his recently published book, Desire. For a liturgy of life. For Fr. Alessandro “celebrating the Word, making it a liturgy, is letting it penetrate like a blade, and letting itself be opened by a cut that will not allow it to remain the same as before, is accepting to penetrate into the deepest abyss of oneself, is getting to put our eyes in…
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Proclaiming Christ in the Culture: The Word of Fire Catholic Ministries
The Word on Fire harnesses beauty, goodness, and truth to draw people into or back to the Catholic faith. The ministry was founded by Bishop Robert Barron who started proclaiming Christ to the culture by airing his homilies on a radio station in Chicago. Thanks to a friend’s request, he started housing all his homilies on a website so that people could access the homilies anytime, anywhere. It was a simple but powerful idea: spread the Good News of Jesus Christ through multiple media platforms, engaging people with the goodness, truth, and beauty of Catholicism. Thus, the ministry of the…
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“Aaron’s Roots” and Our Jewish Roots
Here goes a Christian Youtube channel dedicated to our Jewish roots. Each video are deepens and are thought of as a place where good oil flows and the scent of brotherhood. It is here that we know the Jews, recognize our roots and see our true face. Every week a new video is proposed to present to us our origins, to broaden our gaze, and to combat prejudice. Ancient and modern history, culture and traditions, places and faces. When we speak of Passover-Passover, it comes naturally to us to speak of analogies between the two feasts, and it is right,…
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Pope Francis Recounts the Gospel Narratives
The voice of Pope Francis fused with the most evocative images of Christian art, gives face to the characters of the Gospels. This is the content of the documentary Pope Francis and the story of the Gospels (with 45 minutes runtime) produced by the cultural channel of Rai and is directed by Renato Cerisola. The Pope, with his simple and profound language, takes us inside the scenes of the Gospel as if we were contemporary witnesses of the events that are happening there. An illustrated narrative with masterpieces of art that depict the evangelical characters as they are evoked. Paintings…
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The Bible In A Year: The Most Downloaded Religious Podcast
A 47-year-old priest, Mike Schmitz, responsible for youth ministry in the diocese of Duluh in Minnesota, has been quite popular on the Internet for some years. His name, launched on Google, correspond to link pages, including a Wikipedia entry, while his videos, on the YouTube channel of the publisher Ascension, count tens of thousands of views (with a peak of 2 million, in 2017); has a Twitter profile and one on Instagram. But since last January his digital fame has made a high jump: with the daily podcast of 20-25 minutes “The Bible in a Year” (The Bible in a…
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The Beauty of the Word of God Shines Brilliantly in Camaldoli
Founded a thousand years ago by St. Romuald, Camaldoli is a community of Benedictine monks. Its two houses, the Sacred Hermitage and the Monastery, immersed in the peace of the forest, represent two fundamental dimensions of the monastic experience, solitude and communion. The monastic community lives in the search for God, in prayer and in work, and is open to sharing with the men and women of our time especially through hospitality. For years, the Foresteria has offered a space open to all, of biblical, spiritual and cultural deepening, of dialogue and encounter. In recent days, the program of the…
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Interbible.org: The Living Word as a Source of Daily Inspiration
Launched in 1999, the InterBible is an online platform, in French, supported by the diocese of Montreal (Quebec, Canada). Its goal is to contribute to popular biblical formation so that the Word becomes for its readers an inspiring source in their daily lives. The collaborators of the site share a passion for the Bible and for the historical, religious and social universe that generated it. The site offers insights into biblical books, archaeological findings, as well as different materials to accompany the liturgical reading of the Bible or its enhancement in catechesis: texts, video, audio, photos, articles, quizzes. Obviously, all…
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Gospel Comics: Cristian Nencioni’s Creative Reinterpretation on the Gospels
A website that offers an everyday illustration and comics that reinterpret, in a creative key, the Gospel proposed by the liturgy! Fumetti Cristiani (Christian comics) was born in 2018 when Cristian Nencioni began to draw illustrations of the Gospel on his own, following what he felt in his heart. In 2019 his illustrations became the images for Mass tickets for the children of the parish of S. Giovanni in Avezzano (AQ). In 2020, he began his collaboration with Cristiani Today, where illustrations are digitized, colored and enter the column “Gospel of Sunday”. In 2022 everything becomes an illustrated Gospel proposed…
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Bringing the Word to Today’s Youth with Today’s Means
PRIXM is a project born of the Dominican Fathers of the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Française of Jerusalem, curators of the famous Jerusalem Bible. Under their leadership, 300 researchers from around the world portray and annotate the Scriptures on an online platform, The Bible in its Traditions, with the ambitious project of collecting 3000 years of Judaeo-Christian biblical traditions. Amazed by such great treasures, six young people – Augustin, Thomas, Mathilde, Nicolas, Leo and Édouard – felt motivated by the desire to share them. Hence the establishment of a scientific committee composed of the fathers of the École Biblique, the…
