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,…
On 17/02/2019, the Santa Mariam Baouardy spirituality center was inaugurated on the anniversary of the saint’s canonization, the date chosen by the Carmelite sister Ferial (daughter of this land) and great follower of Mariam, her compatriot to make her Perpetual Profession in the Carmel of Bethlehem. It is not only a prayer and community hostel…
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…
His Holiness Pope Francis and His Eminence the Grand Imam of Al Azhar Dr. Ahmed At-Tayyeb have signed the historic Abu Dhabi Declaration – a document on Human Fraternity in the United Arab Emirates. The «Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together» seeks to encourage stronger relationships between people to promote coexistence among peoples…
