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God, our best buddyBy Carmen F. AguinacoWho does not want to have a good friend? A good friend looks out for us, dares to speak the truth about us, knowing we will accept it. Good friends are those who can be silent in each other’s company because they don’t fear rejection. A good friend is a treasure.We can be ourselves when we are with friends. We don’t need masks and don’t have to pretend we are something we are not. We can share our whole soul with a friend, or we can talk about silly things. We can cry, laugh, enjoy, or be quiet.St. Teresa of Ávila compared prayer to being with a friend...
Source: Dismas Ministry Prison Ministry Update Dismas Ministry asks, “Where are the Catholics?”A National Catholic Prison Ministry in the works.May 15, 2013 – Milwaukee, WI – Dismas Ministry, a national Catholic prison ministry, began a national awareness campaign in December of 2012 to raise awareness of the need for more Catholics to become involved in Prison Ministry. A mailing to over 13,000 U.S. parishes was sent to the attention of the parish pastor. To date they are currently 5 months into the campaign and have had slightly over 100 responses to their mailing. ...
Huffington Post: Religion VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has told nuns from around the world that they must be spiritual mothers and not "old maids." Francis also warned the sisters against using their vocations for personal ambition, saying priests and sisters who do so "do more harm to the church."Francis has complained frequently about such "careerism" in the church – a buzzword that is frequently used to describe Holy See bureaucrats.The pope made the comments during an audience Wednesday with about 800 sisters attending an assembly of the International Union of...
Being and doing what God wants leads us to happinessBy Father Ken Davis, O.F.M. Conv.We are called to happiness, and that is probably our deepest desire. We believe that God calls us to live out the gospel, to carry out our own mission in life. Being and doing what God wants leads us to happiness. But how do we know what our mission is?The following assumptions and questions might help you clarify some of the misunderstanding and uncertainties you might have as you search for your mission in life.False assumptions of a “mission”1. My job is my mission.2. My...
Raises funds for the children of Juarezby Kristina Puga @kristinapuga | Source: NBCLatino.comCarlos Armando Garcia is a finance executive based in New York City, but whenever he would meet with potential clients and mention he was from Juarez, Mexico, he says the tone would always change.“They’d start looking at me as if I was a survivor of a war zone,” says Garcia, who heard similar stories from his hometown friends who are also professionals in NYC. “[We] would all be asked, ‘How is your family? Are they still alive?’ It was something, we said, we needed to do something about.”And that’s...
Don’t be overwhelmed by social problems. Start with analysis.By Santiago Cortés-Sjöberg“When I read the paper and I see all the troubles going on,” Susana says, “I am really scared.”Juan shrugs his shoulders. “They keep telling us we need to get involved,” he says. “But I can’t do anything. I am just one person, and the problems are too big.”It is normal to feel that way, but that does not mean we cannot do anything for those in need. We can and as Christians, we should!We must not only recognize the problems but also discover the causes of such unjust situations. It is only then that we can...
Your family may not understand your callBy Sister Dominga Zapata, S.H.In the Hispanic culture, maternity seems to be the highest thing a woman can desire. A woman becomes a real woman, so to speak, when she is a mother. This is the principle of life, so sacred in our community. You could say that the center of the Hispanic family is the mother.The mother is the one who carries the family forward; she is the one deserving of all respect. She is the bearer of life from the author of life, God. It is easy to see why Hispanics are so devoted to Mary: Mary is the prototype of the bearer of life....
I was a renewed person but also enlightened with gifts that were not of myself but of God’s grace.by Leanne TracyCollege consisted of late nights talking with friends and sharing stories from the heart. In high school this was usually not the case. My friends and I rarely stayed up talking about matters of the heart. My senior year though, I vividly remember sitting in a friend’s driveway for hours with so much to talk about.When our high school youth group started the Life in the Spirit Seminar, the Holy Spirit was taking hold of our lives and the depth of conversation was now unlimited. The...
Who says you don’t count?By Father Domingo Rodríguez, S.T.Who says you are a loser? Have you ever heard people say that we came into this word to suffer? That we need to resign ourselves to our lot because that is just the way things are? Think again!• Aurora López couldn’t read because she had never had a chance to go to school. With lots of effort and perseverance she learned, got an elementary education, and went on to get her GED diploma. Then she started a small business.• Marta Sánchez lived in a poor neighborhood of a big city, riddled with drugs,...
Interview with Gustavo Larrazábal, cmf, friend of Cardinal Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, and now Pope Francis How did you meet the present Pope? The then Cardinal Bergoglio gave homilies and spoke about various interests close to his heart, such as civic involvement and education. He went to Claretian Publications in Argentina where I was the director to ask if we were interested in publishing them. And we published all his works, with the exception of two: his biography and conversations with a Rabbi, which were published by Vergara. Everything else we did. And I was the one...
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