Tag Archives: Pope Francis

Laudato Si’, celebrates its 10th anniversary on 24 May. To mark this birthday, and to reflect on our relationship with the Creator and creation, let us celebrate Laudato Si’ Week well!!  We live in such familiarity with the inspiration of this encyclical by Pope Francis, as a significant backdrop to our ‘care of the earth’ that we can hardly imagine ...

Sunday 11th May 2025 marks the 62nd anniversary of the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. Join us with your prayers. In his letter  ‘Pilgrims of Hope: The Gift of Life’ (released by Pope Francis from Rome, Policlinico A. Gemelli, 19 March 2025) Pope Francis shares some special signposts for those discerning the plan of God for them, and for ...

The late Pope Francis wrote the preface for this book in Italian by Cardinal Angelo Scola, Archbishop Emeritus of Milan, titled “Awaiting a New Beginning. Reflections on Old Age.”  Pope Francis wrote this on February 7, 2025 before his death on April 21, 2025, at age 88. Let not the short form of this book be deceptive: these are very ...

This particular Urbi et Orbi prayer (2020) and blessing by Pope Francis were a beacon of hope, a reminder that even when everything seemed dark, God never abandons us. Do not be afraid! Five years later, that moment remains vivid in the Church’s memory. The image of the Pope in the rain, walking with a serene step, has become a ...

Pope Francis has released his message for the 62nd World Day of Prayer for Vocations, which falls this year on May 11, 2025. Entitled “Pilgrims of Hope: The Gift of Life,” the Pope’s message recalls that every vocation—be it to ordained ministry, consecrated life, or the laity—should offer the world a sign of God’s hope for every person. The Holy ...

St. Joseph teaches us to see and care for the those people overlooked by the world.  Jesus went in search of sinners, the suffering, the hungry, and the poor, while he walked the earth, and he continues to go to the “peripheries” in our lives.  God knows the peripheries of our heart, the peripheries of our soul, the peripheries of our ...

Pope Francis’ three-year consultation on the future of the Catholic Church concluded on October 26, outlining the challenges and proposing ways for all the baptised to be involved in mapping the path ahead.  Part five of the Final Document “So I Send You”, “allows us to look at the first step to be taken: caring for the formation of all, of ...

October 2nd 2024, the Feast of the Guardian Angels marked the opening of the Second Plenary Session of the Synod: A Path of Listening.  On this, the second plenary session of the Synod there is a vibrant presence of religious life there, together with the voices of Sisters from around the world marking this significant ‘synodal’ journey in the life ...

Reinforcing the lived reality of these challenging days, Pope Francis,  in his Message for the upcoming World Day of Migrants and Refugees (#WDMR) on Sunday 29th September, he reminds us “all of us, God’s people, are migrants on this earth”  on our way to the ‘true homeland’, the Kingdom of Heaven. Yes, God walks with His people. He speaks about ...

“Do not cast me off in my old age” (cf. Ps 71:9): This sincere plea, taken from Psalm 71, is the theme of the Fourth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, which will take place on 28 July 2024. In his Message for the Fourth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, Pope Francis reassured the addressees that “God never ...