Oct 3, 2022 | NEWS
Sister Helena began her work with women in Chikukwe in southern Tanzania. This is our new activity in the region. Sister Helena wants to help the women of the village in various ways with their life problems and difficulties. So far, she has sought out such women by visiting villagers. Now she and Sister Aloysia are organizing meetings for women at the sisters’ convent. The group’s meetings will be held on Thursdays, and on other days of the week the sisters will visit the women in their homes. At the meetings, the women will learn how to sew and cook, and with these chores they will be able to talk about their problems and daily life. The first meeting has already taken place and the participants enjoyed it very much. They promised to bring their girlfriends to the next meeting.
Oct 2, 2022 | DAILY BREAD
Monday of week 27 in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Luke 10:25-37
“moved with compassion when he saw him. He went up and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them” We are also often feel compassion but we don’t go up to the person. When we hear a sad story, when we see a person who is suffering, we feel compassion. But we are not moved by compassion. We don’t go up to that person. Our compassion remains in our heart. Because if we want to open our heart and let the compassion move us, we must share our oil and wine. We must share our time and resources. Instead, we fill our heart with compassion. That is also for a reason, this filling of your heart with compassion gives you a false satisfaction of reacting in a Christian way to that situation. This is not true, unless you let your compassion move you to concrete sharing of yourself, this compassion is not Christian compassion. Question is, am I filling my heart with hollow compassion which stays there or with Christian compassion which moves me?
Oct 1, 2022 | DAILY BREAD
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Holy Guardian Angels
Gospel – Luke 17:5-10
“Be uprooted and planted in the sea,”. These words are so radical. To be uprooted from where I am, from where I feel at home, from where I am happy, from where I think that I am giving fruits, and to be planted in the sea where I fear I will be drowned, I fear I cannot put my roots, I fear I cannot give fruits. This move is radical. This move needs the faith, a radical faith. Faith which helps you to do accept this challenge, faith which gives you the strength to be uprooted, faith which gives you the confidence to be planted in the sea. This faith comes when you find yourself part of Him who called you. This faith comes when you find yourself servant of whom you are part of. You don’t have an identity. You belong to Him. You abandon yourself in Him. This faith is that which gives you the strength to be uprooted from where you are and to planted wherever.
