Kategoria: On-going Formation

Education and a culture of peace

Data: 14/05/2024

This subject, education and a culture of peace is vital and remains topical in the Gospel we are called to proclaim in and out of season. It is part of the being of the Church and its action in the world as a gift of Christ Jesus. It is her way of living and radiating peace that she becomes an educator of peace, inculcated in the values of the cultures she is sent to.

Experiencing the Ascension in Jerusalem

Data: 09/05/2024

Placing the Ascension of the Lord Jesus on the summit of the Mount of Olives is not just a fulfillment of religious traditions, but a profound testament to the significance of this mountain. The history and geography of the Holy Land illuminate why the Mount of Olives is the custodian of the memory of this pivotal event in our salvation.

Remembering the Blessed White Fathers of Tizi-Ouzou

Data: 08/05/2024

Founded in 1874, six years after the creation of the Society, the community of Tizi-Ouzou remains our oldest still active community. It was in this community that our four confreres, Alain, Charles, Jean and Christian, Missionaries of Africa, were murdered on 27 December 1994.

Caring for the Common Good

Data: 07/05/2024

Through the internalisation of relational and rational rules, social philosophy presents man as an exclusively social being. For Michel Tournier, man “carries within him a complex scaffolding”. As a result, man has a vocation to build himself by constructing his community, his society and his environment.

River descending from Temple

Data: 03/05/2024

This
recollection can be a preparation for the F east of Pentecost (19 May) and I
propose to you a text from the AT that struck and inspired me greatly… One morning I
was still in Jerusalem I was leaving the O ld C ity through the Lions’ Gate and took the
road o n the other side of the Kidron V alley. I was suddenly struck by the scene before
my eyes: the high ramparts where once stood the TEMPLE … and below the deep
Kidron Valley… This view reminded me of Ezekiel’s vision…