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Celebrations for Catechists in the Latin American Region
This September 18 to 22, the episcopal conference of Venezuela will be celebrating its “National Week of Catechesis 2022”. The event will take place in Caracas in Venezuela where the department of Catechesis of the Episcopal Conference has prepared an aid entitled “Catechist with a synodal heart” that delves into the theme of the week. The aid was prepared so that this week is an opportunity to “reflect, pray and celebrate how the heart of the catechist should be, a synodal heart ready for listening, dialogue, discernment and integration”. The biblical quote of reference is Phil 2, 2b: “have the…
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Shipping missionary
Schema liturgical, for the sending of missionaries of the Word, adapted to confer the mandate to catechists and leaders of pastoral ministry.
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Many Faiths Under the Same Sky 15th Edition
Molte fedi sotto lo stesso cielo(Many faiths under the same sky) is the cultural event promoted by the Acli of Bergamo. For fourteen, it years has animated the city and the province in the months of Autumn. The aim of the exhibition is to promote opportunities for reflection on hot topics of our time: from environmental issues to geopolitics, from religious pluralism to economic inequalities, through beauty spaces dedicated to art, music and theater. Among the interventions scheduled this year: the dialogue on the prodigal son of Luigi Maria Epicoco, the reflection on the Bible and Psychoanalysis of Massimo Recalcati,…
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Cantacielo: Songs from the Bible for the Souls
The final evening of CANTACIELO took place on Monday afternoon of August 29 at the Gold Studios in Rome. The festival, aptly named and dedicated to the “songs of the soul” will be aired on RAI 2 in the afternoon-evening of 6th September. The event was presented by Enrica Guidi which see the eight finalists selected compete over a large number of candidates received in recent months. From the songs of the final will be made a recording disc that will be published in the weeks after the festival. CANTACIELO is conceived and organized by Mompracem Srl and produced in collaboration…
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Growing Closer to God Through the Gospel and the Arts
Pope St. John Paul II in his Letter to Artists wrote: “To communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art. Art must make perceptible and attractive the world of the spirit, of the invisible, of God. It must therefore translate into meaningful terms that are in itself ineffable. Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes, and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look or listen.”Christian Art is a London-based multilingual site that offers daily Gospel reading and reflections, in a unique “approach”. Each…
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The Word that Colors the Canvas: Marcello Silvestri’s Arts
Roots, twisted woods, pieces of metal and leaves, rope and straw are the elements with which he builds his works. Intertwining them with the colors of the earth, the shades of water and sky, the thousand shades of green of the landscape that he sees from the windows of his house on the hill. His name is Marcello Silvestri. Together with his wife Margherita, they live in the middle of the meadows and under the trees of a house in Tarquinia. Many men and women in love with art and life in the Spirit have passed through this sea-facing countryside.…
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The Bible and the Reach4Life Program
Biblica, the International Bible Society, is a worldwide ministry that has been helping people engage with God’s Word for over 200 years. They are committed to bringing the Bible to people in a way they understand, so they can be transformed by Christ and inspired to join His mission for the world. Reach4Life is a program Biblica developed to help combat the challenges youth face in developing nations and around the world. More than 1 million teens have completed Reach4Life. It is proving to be so effective in the fight against HIV/AIDS that churches, schools, communities, and even governments are…
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Giancarlo Airaghi: Spreading the Good News
Born in Magenta (Milan) on July 30, 1972, Giancarlo Airaghi is the author of a new Youtube channel full of proposals that all have the same source: the Word of God. It features a brief but profound reflection on the festive texts of the Ambrosian liturgy, to true and proper paths of preparation for the great solemnities of the liturgical year, where there is no lack of attention to Mary, the Sacraments, and the journey of faith. Giancarlo’s story is significant: he first experienced international volunteering in the mission area of Mutoyi in Burundi (Central Africa) from 1992 to 1997. He also…
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Canada’s Notre pain quotidien: Serving the Word of God Through Mass Media
In 1938 in Canada, the ministry Notre pain quotidien (Our Daily Bread) began a radio program called Detroit Bible Class. Since then, the audience has grown from a small group of dedicated people to a million worldwide who use the biblical resources of ministry. Notre pain quotidien (Our Daily Bread) is a non-profit interdenominational organization. It has staff and volunteers in more than 35 offices working together to distribute more than 60 million resources in 150 countries. Whether through radio or television programs, DVDs, podcasts, books, mobile apps, or websites, it provides biblical and spiritual resources to people to help…
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You Think You Know King David? Bible Trivia Quiz
Bible questions and answers on David in the bible after the Bible questions on Daniel. You have 15 seconds to answer each countdown bible quiz question. Ideal for virtual bible school, small groups, zoom meetings, icebreakers, and team bonding. Do this bible trivia with questions and answers in your online meetings. Quiz for kids, youth, adults, and all. Kids and youth bible quiz questions and answers. Visit the shop for bible quiz and answers PDFs sent directly to your inbox. Click here.
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Bible & Music: released the album “These Same Skies”
The four Gospels in music. We share the video Song For His Presence, from Hillsong Worship’s live album “These Same Skies”, released last may and led by Aodhan King. Whether in the northern or southern hemisphere, these same skies unite us, all of God’s children, as many as the stars in the sky, just as the Lord promised Abraham. It is under these same skies that Christ’s church, His body on earth, exists today. Though separated by oceans and borders the mandate of Hillsong Worship continues under these same skies. One in heart and spirit, unified in mission and cause—to…
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Bibbliodrama: Encountering the Word of God in our Everyday Lives
The Bibliodrama is an active methodology that fosters a profound encounter between the Word of God and the concrete life of every person. It is a form of group biblical confrontation, based on the interaction between the biblical message conveyed by the Spirit and the human experience of each participant. Participating in a Bibliodramma meeting allows you to live a biblical passage in person. Each participant is invited to reflect himself in the text, stimulated by the biblical passage met, meditated and represented in an unpublished form. In this way he internally associates aspects of himself and his life, freely…
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Massimo Recalcati on the Bible and Psychoanalysis
Massimo Recalcati is a renowned Italian psychoanalyst who lives and works in Milan. His scientific activity has been articulated around some fundamental guidelines: the analysis of contemporary psychopathology and eating disorders; the study of the teaching of Jacques Lacan; the reflection on the figure of the father in the hypermodern era; the analysis of the relationship between politics and the discomfort of contemporary civilization, between psychoanalysis and artistic creation. Currently, his interest is oriented towards the study of the relationship between psychoanalysis and Christianity, with a particular attention to the entire biblical world. Since 2016 he has been the scientific…
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Vatican Radio’s Podcast: The Beauty of the Bible
“The beauty of the Bible” is the new podcast dedicated to Scripture by Vatican Radio. It offers brief reflections on some Biblical texts in response to the proposal of Pope Francis launched on Saint Jerome’s Day 2020 to dedicate a whole year to the reading of the Word of God. With these, Mgr. Giacomo Morandi, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, leads us in the footsteps of the Fathers and Mothers of the faith, bringing the great faces of the Word to the public at large. Mons. Giacomo Morandi was born in Modena in 1965. He…
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Alberione APP: Apostles of the Word and of Communications
The result of a great commitment in work and in collaboration, the official App of Bl. James Alberione and of the Pauline Family is finally here. Named as theAlberione APP, is a software application dedicated to mobile devices, such as smartphones, iPhones and tablets. The said app is available in 7 languages: Italian, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Korean, and Polish. Fr. Alberione bequeathed to his sons and daughters, and to the whole Church, numerous publications and multimedia products. These describe in an authentic way his personality, his teachings and the apostolic ardor and specific charism that he left to the…
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“Dialogue” Between Scriptures and Art: Fr. Marko Rupnik’s Frescoes
Yellow, orange and red. Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, the Jesuit artist who founded the Aletti Centre, chose to use warm colors to fresco the entire walls of the nave and apse of the Major Chapel of the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary. The gaze of the visitor who crosses the inlaid wooden portal is immediately attracted and wrapped by the colors of the apse which is accessed through a pedagogical path in which the Old and New Testament are in dialogue with each other. On the occasion of the blessing of the Chapel presided by Card. Angelo De Donatis, in reference…
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When God Calls: An Ex-Policewoman’s Vocation Story & How She Became A Nun
“I was at the Commissariat of Torpignattara in Rome and was asked to watch over a minor who had committed a robbery while awaiting instructions. We were in the same room and I began to talk with him about the reasons for his gesture (it was the first time he committed a crime). I remember everything about that moment: he started crying, saying he was scared, crying his eyes out, scared. I listened to him, I handed him a handkerchief: he really looked helpless. At a certain point, continuing to cry, he told me: ‘I’m afraid, could you give me…
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Rediscovering the Christian and Jewish Background of Pentecost
The Jewish feast of Shavuot is celebrated seven weeks after Easter, on the “fiftieth day” (this is the meaning of the term “Pentecost”), a number indicating fullness (7 x 7 + 1) and the beginning of the time of “fulfillment”. Pentecost is the feast of the first fruits, harvest and joy, it became a memorial of the gift of the Torah to Sinai and of the renewal of the covenant between God and the people of Israel. Being a pilgrimage feast, it sees the gathering of people from all over in Jerusalem, which explains the universal origin of the crowd…
