“You have been told what is good and what the Lord requires of you: only practice justice, love tenderly and walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6:8) Throughout history, Consecrated Life has been considered light and leaven during the realities that humanity lives. For many peoples, to count on its presence is to feel accompanied in their joys, struggles, and hopes. Today, consecrated life continues to be present in places
“In that historic gesture, faith was never lacking. Prayer and religious services accompanied every day, the different sit-ins that defended the country’s democracy.” 2023 was an epic year for Guatemala. It was an election year, in which, even though many social and civil instances had bet on civic education, the outlook was not flattering. 26 out of 30 political parties seek to perpetuate in power the anti-democratic forces, which
First lay headmistress of El Rosario School, El Seibo (Dominican Republic) El Rosario School Founded: 1951 Students: 683 Classrooms: 21 Teaching staff: 36 Support and administrative staff: 24 How has your career as a teacher been inside and outside of El Rosario School? I consider that my career at El Rosario School has always been very committed, dedicated and student oriented. In these 13 years at the school, I
I want to talk about these 4 months, from September 3 until today, highlighting some events that impacted us the most, especially me. The big day, the inauguration of our house. We lived the manifestation of God’s grace on September 29, 2023, an unforgettable date, with the different moments that will illuminate our lives: the inauguration of our community that began with the Mass of Thanksgiving and the official presentation
As it says, time goes by fast,Time flies by,We’re asked to keep movingContinuing to be productive… to keep on working…As if I never felt tired, It seems like time doesn’t exist.It’s not that we need time to move….We do it all the time, filled with true love.It’s an unspoken feeling,That can’t be seen with sight because only with the heart can it be felt.Each time we show what we do
I would like to share something about the Christmas experience here in Aldaia. Just as we in our different experiences, we celebrate with all Christians the great joy of the Birth of the Child. But at the same time it was to say that it was a different Christmas, different in the preparation in which we collaborated and participated as a community: The Novena of the Immaculate Conception, in which
The word means, “Advantage of someone, that others, do not enjoy”. In these times we live in, there are real facts, so hard, so incomprehensible that make us think of privileged people. Who? and why? who are not privileged? So many people, families immigrating from the places where they were born and lived, now on their way to other countries where …they are not well received, their arrival makes them
Our life in Aldaia began in August 2023, when we arrived. At the beginning we started to build our community, each one giving her idea and little by little this construction became a reality. We are living a unique experience in our community. The integration of our life as Missionary Dominican Sisters of the Rosary, each one with her own culture, but we live as if we had only one
The Fiducia Supplicans Declaration on the pastoral meaning of blessings has aroused great controversy within the Church, the document wants to be “a tribute to the faithful People of God, who adore the Lord with so many gestures of profound trust in his mercy and who, with this attitude, constantly come to ask Mother Church for a blessing.” This first expression of the declaration is very beautiful in emphasizing that
Real liberation is the organized expression of a people. When people are on the move and seek for their liberation, it is because their rights are being violated by an oppressive system. The peoples seeking liberation are characterized as new social movements and their starting point is the new signs of the times, which points to a greater human liberation of our peoples. The peoples are in constant struggle to