Prayers

I am a mission, you are a mission, every man and woman is a mission …

“The Rosary centres itself in the profoundness of the Gospel message, of which it is almost a resume. With the Rosary, the Christian people sit at the school of Mary, to allow it to be introduced to the contemplation of the beauty of the face of Christ and to experience the depth of his love”. – St John Paul II

Mary, in the image of her nativity, has always accompanied us a mother. She has sustained us and has gone before us in our service of charity. In this time of poverty let us entrust our dear Institute family and plead for holy vocations,

Sayings of the Desert Fathers… (no. 1)

As soon as we apprehend by faith the great fundamental truth that Mary is the Mother of God, other wonderful truths follow in its train; and one of these is that she was exempt from the ordinary lot of mortals, which is not only to die, but to become earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

If the greatest witness of the Christian is to give life as Jesus did, that is martyrdom, there is also every day witness, which begins in the morning, when one wakes up, and ends in the evening, when one goes to sleep.

Father, bread, forgiveness. Three words that the Gospel offers us today. Three words that take us to the very heart of our faith.

Guided by the words and prayers of Pope Francis

from the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Novena in preparation for the feast of our saints: 18 May