Prayers
SAINTS TOGETHER from 1950
70th Anniversary of the Canonisation of Saints Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa. There is a special and unique opportunity for us.... 16.00 - (time in Italy)Holy Mass from the our Santuario, in Lovere, behind closed doors. It will be precided...
BARTOLOMEA AND VINCENZA: SAINTS TOGETHER
The two Saints appear, first of all, together, in mutual relationship, one in need of the other, mutually complementary, thanks to their individual differences: together and distinct, each with her personal endowments and functions, for the good of the same undertaking...
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“I am in the hands of God…” – Novena for the feast of our Saints
…Only love safeguards the life we have because it embraces our fragility and transforms it. It is God’s love that turned death into a passage of life, that changed our fear into trust, our anxiety into hope. God can change everything into good...
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CHRIST IS ALIVE! HE IS OUR HOPE.
Christ is alive! We need to keep reminding ourselves of this, because we can risk seeing Jesus Christ simply as a fine model from the distant past, as a memory, as someone who saved us two thousand years ago. But that would be of no use to us: it would leave us unchanged, it would not set us free. The one who fills us with his grace, the one who liberates us, transforms us, heals and consoles us is someone fully alive. (cv 124)
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THE WAY OF THE CROSS & COVID – 19
O God, our refuge in trials, our strength in sickness, our comfort in sorrow, spare your people, we pray, that, though rightly chastised now by affliction, we may find relief at last through your loving mercy.
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“I WANT MORE”
At the foot of the Cross : A contemplative prayer - the Cross of Christ narrates the deepest ‘wish’ of God that surpasses our every expectation and continues in time as the sign of a love that is greater than what we can ever imagine.
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HOLY THURSDAY ADORATION
In this evening, we keep vigil, contemplating Jesus who gives himself into the hands of the Father, whose will he fulfills perfectly; into the hands of sinners, for whom he lives the Passion; into the hands of death, which he will win. In the humble and surprising sign of the bread broken and given, we recognise this mystery of love.
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PENITENTIAL RITE IN PREPARATION FOR EASTER
With the list of evils that the Gospel of Mark presents in front of us, it is important to acknowledge: “it touches us”, that is we are not exempted from these things; these are attitudes that we have within. These attitudes are present in us and could surprise us at every moment. Let us examine ourselves
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WAY OF THE CROSS OF SILENCE
The Cross of Christ does not only demonstrate Jesus’ silence as his last word to the Father but reveals that God also speaks through silence: “the silence of God, the experience of the distance of the almighty Father, is a decisive stage in the earthly journey of the Son of God, the Incarnate Word.
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GEROSA’S APPOINTMENT WITH THE CRUCIFIED LORD
Her appointment with the Crucified Lord was a must in her day. Their meeting place was «Santa Maria» Church. He, behind the grated glass, looking even more tormented in the picture, and still more utterly alone in his moral anguish, unique ...
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