CELEBRATION OF 100 YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF MONS. ZUBIETA AND LÉS FOUNDER OF THE DOMINICAN MISSIONARIES
2812, 2020

CELEBRATION OF 100 YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF MONS. ZUBIETA AND LÉS FOUNDER OF THE DOMINICAN MISSIONARIES

This article has been written for publication in the bulletin of the Dominican Laity in Portugal. We, Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary, are once again living a Jubilee Year. A little more than 2 years ago, we celebrated the Centenary of the Foundation of the Congregation and now we are beginning this year which brings us to the Centenary of the death of Monsignor Ramon Zubieta y Les. OP, our

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NOURISHING A VOCATIONAL CULTURE FROM THE INTERCONGREGATIONAL
2112, 2020

NOURISHING A VOCATIONAL CULTURE FROM THE INTERCONGREGATIONAL

I resume the appealing that Pope Francis made to young people in the World Youth Day in Panama: “Young people, you are not the future, you are God’s now.” With this, we could strengthen and put into practice the meaning of accompanying the vocational awake from a vocational culture revitalized by the young-vocational pastoral, which this year has been relevant due to the sanitary contingency that we have had to

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OUR RESPONSE TO COVID-19
2112, 2020

OUR RESPONSE TO COVID-19

The novel corona virus disease (Covid-19) that has been ravaging the world has thrown normal life out of gear for millions of people in India too with mounting number of infections and casualties.  National lock down was clamped on 24 March in a bid to protect the country and the citizens from the virulent virus. The national lock-down helped significantly to containing the spread of the virus and preventing the

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THE SURPRAISING PRESENCE OF GOD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PANDEMIC IN THE WALKING TOWARDS SACRAMENTAL LIFE
2112, 2020

THE SURPRAISING PRESENCE OF GOD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PANDEMIC IN THE WALKING TOWARDS SACRAMENTAL LIFE

In the middle of this sanitary crisis of Covid-19, a group of young people who study at DUOC UC (Higher education institute in Chile) keep their decision and option to maintain their preparation to get their sacraments in an online way (Baptism, First Communion and Confirmation). For them it was a time of great challenge, and above all, a commitment with their sacramental formation, since they had to find balance

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RESPONSIBILITIES IN TIMES OF CRISIS AND DEEPENING OF THE GUADALUPE’S SPIRIT
2112, 2020

RESPONSIBILITIES IN TIMES OF CRISIS AND DEEPENING OF THE GUADALUPE’S SPIRIT

“Education and evangelization are today -more than ever before- interrelated” O.P. We are in the middle of a pandemic, which undoubtedly will remain in our retina for many more years; the pandemic has brought a series of adaptations within society, such as knowing adequately our emotions, reflecting on a social level, questioning our educational commitment and to recognize the responsibilities that we as educators cannot overlook. Today, in times of

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THE PATH IS MADE AS YOU WALK
1611, 2020

THE PATH IS MADE AS YOU WALK

We all have experienced the passage of the pandemic in our lives, communities and mission throughout the year.   In Kirigueti (Peruvian jungle) we have had time at the beginning of the year to make a good planning of the pastoral work for the two parishes and to visit native communities of lower Urubamba. When we tried to carry out what we had planned and make our first trips, confinement

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INSPIRING DECALOGUE FOR THE NEW CONSECRATED COMMUNITY FROM FRATELLI TUTTI
1611, 2020

INSPIRING DECALOGUE FOR THE NEW CONSECRATED COMMUNITY FROM FRATELLI TUTTI

Compromise with the plurality Or what is the same, with the novelty of the Spirit. This is the moment in which consecrated life should be educated in one of its clearer vitality principles to overcome inertia that is always present. It is still perceived the belief that determined cultures answer to the charismas, while others are incapable of doing it. Religious families’ decentralization -which is evident from the quantitative point

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MY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
0911, 2020

MY TEACHING EXPERIENCE

The wonderful experience I lived as teacher in Santa Rosa school in Puno, south of Peru at 3,824 meters above sea level is a milestone in my professional, missionary and personal life. Paraphrasing Mother Ascension Nicol “I have never felt so close to God as in those sixteen months in the mountain.” From that place I embraced the educational project “To educate from life for life” as a consolidation of

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THE CHALLENGE OF BEING A GOOD TEACHER IN PANDEMIC TIMES!
0911, 2020

THE CHALLENGE OF BEING A GOOD TEACHER IN PANDEMIC TIMES!

The great professor Luis Jaime Cisneros said: “…few people talk about learning quality and the learning quality depends on the teaching quality and the teaching quality depends on the work with teachers.”   What Luis Jaime Cisneros states is undoubtedly a great truth, but for achieving it there are many factors that intervene, which must be combined correctly to mark our students and for us to be unforgettable teachers. It

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FROM CUSCO COMMUNITY MARIA ANTONIENTA SHARES WITH US:
0911, 2020

FROM CUSCO COMMUNITY MARIA ANTONIENTA SHARES WITH US:

Dear sisters, every time that we share our experiences by sitting around a table, in our house, in a hall, in a road or walking on the street, we weave friendship and we grow in listening attitudes.   In this pandemic time shared by the whole world, we miss all the spaces for free that means of communication used to provide us. I do not know if these spaces have

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