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Millions of people call themselves Christians, believing, in many cases, to have converted to Christianity. Now, is this the case? What is conversion exactly? To convert is to change. Consider the shimmering color butterfly. Before becoming this beautiful insect, it looked like something else. It was, to begin with, a tiny egg practically invisible to…

Now that we are so close to Christmas, we remember so many texts of Luke where the characters that in themselves do not have much to exult … but finding the child Jesus -God-with-us- was filled with great joy. The Magi also experienced great joy, the shepherds were still the first … the joy of…

The evangelical realism of Therese shows us how close God is to man and that the reality of him attracts his mercy. Faced with the need of the man, Therese brings the transcendent answer of the divine mercy. The world is the place of the concrete liberation of man by God. Faced with a broken…

«I would like to travel the earth, to preach your name, but O my Beloved God, one mission alone would not be enough, I would like to announce the Gospel in the five parts of the world and even in the most remote islands … not only for a few years. I would like to…

Our love for Mary, figure of the Church wife, is a way of reminding us that holiness is not just an individual matter. Mary welcoming the One who gives his life for his wife and who unites her as his own Body, makes visible in her person the fullness of the gift of the Holy…

On this feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, let’s rethink a little bit about what means the title of «Sister». The first text where the Carmelites give to Mary the title of «Sister» was «The institution of the first monks», famous work published at the end of the XIV century. This name, so sympathetic,…

O my God, Trinity whom I adore, help me to become utterly forgetful of myself so that I may establish myself in you, as changeless and calm as though my soul were already in eternity. Let nothing disturb my peace nor draw me forth from you, O my unchanging God, but at every moment may…

The blessed Carmelite sister Mary of Jesus Crucified worshipped the Holy Spirit a lot. She continually made supplications unto Him in her life in utmost trust in Him. In one of her spiritual journeys, she heard a voice saying  : If you decide to look for me, know me and follow me, Invoke the light,…

On December 13, 1925, a few days before she celebrated the fourth anniversary of her baptism, Edith Stein wrote to her friend, the Polish philosopher Roman Ingarden. She talks about her university days in Gottingen and Freiburg in Breslau: «I was a bit like someone who is in danger of drowning […], before my soul…

Saint Joseph, the father of Jesus, is a very mysterious but very important person. Joseph, at the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew, is «just according to the law»: he decides first to repudiate Mary. However, little by little, thanks to the dream, he becomes just «according to the plan of God». That is to…