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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…

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The 12th chapter of the Letter to the Romans of the Apostle Paul is considered, from its first two verses, as the condensed of the Christian life: a life moved by the experience of the mercies of God, sprinkled with the grace of Christ, capable of enveloping all dimensions of being, arousing in the Spirit a new and renewed relationality. Fruit of discernment (of what is good, pleasing to God and perfect), the new life frees us from worldly schematics to introduce us into a dynamic that transfigures, step by step, everything. With his unmistakable style, Fr. Fabio Rosini accompanies…

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Lent marks the resumption of the spiritual events that mark the journey towards Easter and make the Word of God dialogue with cinema, music and painting. Four new appointments will sustain on the figures who, in the Paschal Mystery, occupy a prominent role: Moses and the experience of the Exodus, the source root of Easter; Mary of Magdala, the first witness and apostle of the resurrection; Peter who from the experience of denial lives the reconfirmation of his vocation and the beginning of his preaching; the disciples of Emmaus who lost among their expectations and recaptured by the mysterious wayfarer…

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Besides personal reading, the reading of the Bible in community is significant for the life of the Church. Those who read and reflect together on the Scriptures help one another to understand the Word of God and to make it fruitful in their lives. The Diocese of Bolzano, thanks to the passion of the referent for the biblical pastoral Stefan Huber, in February tried to revive the “Biblical Groups” by proposing the method of the seven steps, a method that can introduce to meditation and prayer of the Word of God. In addition to the meetings in presence, in the…

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