Kategoria: Formation

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…

Our Lady of Africa, Mother of Hope

Data: 30/04/2024

In the litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we invoke Mary, Mother of Hope. As we go about our daily lives, with its ups and downs, joys and sorrows, happiness and unhappiness, kindness and violence, laughter and suffering, life can quickly lose its taste and meaning without hope.

Contribution to Environmental and Ecological Education

Data: 29/04/2024

After a seven-month stay here in the province of Haut-Katanga, in the city of Lubumbashi, and more specifically in the commune of Katuba, where our parish of Sainte-Bernadette is located, I observed several things during my walks, visits to local Christian communities and sick people and their families.

Unconditional respect for every person

Data: 26/04/2024

To talk about human rights in the light of the Gospel, we should first look at the person of Jesus and what the Gospels tell us about him. The first thing that strikes us in many episodes of Jesus’ life is how he welcomes and respects every human being, adult and child alike. He recognises, as we are taught to do, the dignity of every person, created in the image of God.