Events

“Here am I, send me” World Mission day 2020 This is how the motto of this year’s world mission day resounds, which takes up the theme of the Extraordinary Missionary Month of 2019 (“Baptized and sent”). This appeal, taken from the book of the prophet Isaiah, concerns us all: “are we prepared to welcome the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives, to listen to the call ...

To celebrate the wonderful anthropological diversity of our planet on the 9th of August we celebrate World Indigenous Peoples’ Day, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1994. Scattered throughout the earth there are in fact more than 5,000 communities for a total of 370 million people living in 70 countries of the world, who perpetuate ancient traditions and lifestyl...

“That you may tell your children and grandchildren” (Ex 10,2). Life becomes history This is the theme for the 54th World communications day which is celebrated every Sunday of the Ascension of the Lord. Pope Francis reflects on the narration between generations, on weaving good stories, which build up: I would like to devote this year’s Message to the theme of storytelling, because I believe...

Pope Francis begins his message by recalling a letter he wrote last year in which he chose four key words – pain, gratitude, encouragement, and praise – as a way of “thanking priests and supporting their ministry”. Today, he says, those same words can “be addressed to the whole people of God”, alongside a passage from Matthew’s Gospel that recounts the “remarkable experience of Jes...

“Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister Mother Earth”, Francis of Assisi sang these words in 1225, thanking the Lord and praising Him for all his creatures in a contemplative gaze that could transcend death. In 2015, he was echoed by the new Pope in the Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’.  Pope Francis soon chose to take the name of the Saint of Assisi, by whose words he express his hea...

On this death all the living find their stronghold VIA CRUCIS 2020 On this Holy Friday, a time of silence and meditation, here is an opportunity to pray on the inspiration of the stations of the Via Crucis, with the help of the witnesses and reflections of our sisters from all over the world and of MsI Lay Associates…  

The day in which Msgr Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador was assassinated in 1980, was chosen 28 years ago by the then Missionary Youth Movement of the Pontifical Mission Societies of Italy, to celebrate annually the “Day of Prayer and Fasting in memory of the Missionary Martyrs.” The slogan of the 2020 Day is “In Love and Alive” informs Giovanni Rocca, national secretary of ...