The Bible is rich in quotations which invite the believer to welcome and give hospitality to pilgrims or strangers. God, inviting the Jews to give hospitality, exhorts them to remember that they, too, experienced exile – in the land

di Saverio Cannistrà, ocd First of all, I would like to confess how embarrassed I am standing on this side of the table, in other words, on the side for those who speak, present and communicate, instead of those who

The preface of Pope Francis to the book ‘Madre Teresa di Calcutta – Amiamo chi non è amato’ (‘Mother Teresa of Calcutta – Let us Love those who are not Loved’) punished by Emi. There is a phrase of Mother

A week has passed since the earthquake which struck the centre of Italy at dawn on 24 August of this year. The funerals of the victims of Amatrice brought to an end the first stage of the emergency and began

Amplifying the power of compassion Pope Francis to declare Mother Teresa a Saint, on September 4, 2016: to be more Ablaze in the Glory of God. Anthoni Jeorge Kunnel I thank God almighty and share with everyone all over the

Father Rosario Messina ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return’ (Jb 1:21). This famous phrase of Job makes us reflect on the initial and final reality of each one of us: somebody clothes us when

Dear friends, The strong earthquake that hit Amatrice, Arquata and Accumoli (Rieti, Lazio, Italy) has so far left 240 people dead. The villages are located on the border of three regions in Central Italy, Lazio, Abruzzi and Marche, a seismic

One of the largest sites of the “Vanished Rome”, disappeared as a result of the radical restructuring of the area surrounding the Vatican in 1930, when the whole central part of the district was dramatically demolished to open a very

Padre  Rosario  Messina In the Old Testament God had already revealed that He was living water that quenches thirst and refreshes: ‘O God, you are my God, and I long for you. My whole being desires you, like a dry,

Father Rosario Messina In his Bull for the Indiction of the Holy Year of Mercy the Pope writes at number 13: ‘We want to live this Jubilee Year in light of the Lord’s words: Merciful like the Father. The Evangelist

Solidarity in suffering and poverty went back to shared origins: to the crucifix, to the image of the man-God dying and without clothes. Francis and Camillus grew at the school of the crucifix. Their work started with the cross and

Father Rosario Messina In his Bull of Indiction for the Holy Year Pope Francis writes in n. 15: ‘It is my burning desire that, during this Jubilee, the Christian people may reflect on the corporal and spiritual works of mercy’.