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We have a myopic understanding of persecution, and therefore, dont even see it is already at hand.

Cervantes: St. Michael the Archangel: 'The events have been unleashed'

May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. This feature is part of a series highlighting the current state of media freedom globally STOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 27 2021 (IPS) -   Forgive me, Years gone by and still words don’t come easily, like forgive me, forgive me.               Tracy Chapman The World Press Freedom Day on the 3rd of May is an occasion for celebrating humanity. Language enables us to transmit our thoughts in sound – a means of communication developed through our unique ...

A statue of St. Michael the Archangel is displayed at the Church of St. Michael in New York City. (CNS Photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) St. Michael the Archangel is back, invoked to defend Christians from the snares of the devil. Or at least his prayer is. The Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel is now a staple of liturgies in many parishes, often recited at the end of Mass or immediately after. The prayer, invoked in various forms from 1886 to 1965, was shelved as part of the Mass after the reforms ...

Description Continuing his catechesis on Christian prayer at the April 14, 2021, General Audience in the Vatican, Pope Francis explains that prayer belongs to the very essence of the Church, without which she cannot carry out her evangelizing mission and service to others. Publisher & Date Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! The Church is a great school of prayer. Many of us learned how to whisper our first prayers on our parents’ or grandparents’ laps. We might, perhaps, cherish the m...

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Vatican City, Apr 14, 2021 / 05:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis said Wednesday that an essential task of the Church today is to teach people how to pray. “The Church is a great school of prayer,” Pope Francis said in his general audience livestream on April 14. “And this is an essential task of the Church: to pray and teach how to pray, to transmit from generation to generation the lamp of faith with the oil of prayer,” the pope said. At his Wednesday audience, Pope Francis encouraged Christi...

Pope Francis: Prayer Is ‘the Church’s Essential Task’ 14 Apr 2021 ROME — The Church’s essential task is praying and teaching others to pray, Pope Francis declared during his weekly General Audience on Wednesday. Prayer is “the breath of faith,” the pontiff stated during his live-streamed address from the Library of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, and “we grow in faith inasmuch as we learn to pray.” “After certain passages in life, we become aware that without faith we coul...

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! The Church is a great school of prayer. Many of us learned how to whisper our first prayers on our parents’ or grandparents’ laps. We might, perhaps, cherish the memory of our mommy and daddy who taught us to say our prayers before going to bed. These moments of recollection are often those in which parents listen to some intimate secret and can give their advice inspired by the Gospel. Then, as they grow up, there are other encounters, with other wi...

Writing Workshop #34: Magical Realism March 5, 2021 An update from our thirty-fourth Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop held on Saturday February 20, plus some of the output published below This week with Jane we talked about magic or magical realism: stories in which a little magic is introduced into everyday life, often as a metaphor for something important to the life of the main character(s). We discussed the difference between magical realism and fantasy, and agreed that whereas i...