Nov 20, 2022 | POSITIVE IMPULSES
Authority is power over oneself to transform himself or herself into service for the other. It must be principally directed towards oneself not towards the other. When authority is interpreted as a power over the other, it loses its authentic meaning. Actually, when you don’t have authority over yourself, is when you try to control others. Authority of a father is the ability to transform himself into a good father and not in controlling the children. The more you can give yourself to the other to become what you are, the more authority you will have.
Don Giorgio
Nov 20, 2022 | NEWS
In his address to participants in the International Congress of Catechists on the 10th September 2022, Pope Francis affirmed that catechists and catechists are witnesses who put themselves at the service of the Christian community in order to encourage the growth of faith in the concrete of daily Life. They are those who persistently proclaim the Gospel of Mercy; those who are capable of establishing the essential connections of welcome and proximity that allow us to better taste God’s Word and experience the Eucharistic Mystery while presenting fruits of good actions. For the holy father, Catechesis is not a one-hour class, but rather a live experience of the Faith that each of us want to pass on to future generations. Certainly, we need to find the best ways to communicate our faith to people based on their age and level of understanding. However, the most important thing is the personal contact we have with each person. “Only personal contact,” the Pope said, “opens the heart to receive the first proclamation and to want to grow in the Christian life with the kind of dynamism that catechesis makes possible.”
It is in this Pope’s point of view that I was given 15 children from the Parish of St. Francis of Assisi in Monte Mario to prepare for the Sacrament of Confirmation.I was prepaed them for two yeas, This is the Sacrament that allows the faithful to welcome the Holy Spirit into their hearts and receive his seven gifts: wisdom, intellect, counsel, fortitude, science, piety, and fear of God. Too often, people don’t realise how important it is. This is especially true for the youngest children, who don’t always have the right tools to follow Jesus’ path. In the course of the Preparation I realised how Parents and godparents are very important in this process. Because from their examples of life, the young Christian can understand what it means to get the sacrament of confirmation and show that he loves Jesus.
For all of us who participated in the process, it was a strong time of preparation, with a spiritual retreat, prayers, the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and a seminar to help them to be strong in their Christian witness. 10 Out of 15 children were confirmed by Monsignor Paolo Selvadagi, an auxiliary bishop for the West sector of the Diocese of Rome, on November 13, 2022. I would like to thank my superiors and My entire my community for giving me this opportunity to serve Christ’s Church in this way.
Sr. Clementina SMI
Nov 20, 2022 | NEWS
In Pyskowice, at our monastery, the first formation meeting was held as part of a planned series of conferences addressed to women.
The September Saturday showed that it is worth meeting and that time is needed to be able to participate ‘together’ in Holy Mass and to listen to a conference on the subject of good rest.
It is worthwhile in this busy world to stop and meet over a good coffee, cake and in good company. So we bravely set about planning the next meeting, which took place last Saturday.
So we are happy .This is the second meeting!
First the Eucharist, a good homily and prayer for each other. On Saturday afternoon, in our parish church of St. Nicholas in Pyskowice, Father Jan Podstawka, the parish priest, celebrated Mass for the intention of the meeting’s participants.
After the Eucharist, over good coffee and sweet refreshments, the topic of the Most Sweet, Sister Dulcissima Hoffmann, the servant of God, was discussed by Sister Małgorzata Cur from Racibórz Brzezie.
Sister Agnieszka Szyma and Sister Malgorzata Cur complemented each other by talking about the great interest in the figure of Sister Dulcissima among people from various parts of Poland and abroad.
The Sisters of Brzezie recounted the testimonies of people who pray invoking Sister Dulcissima and who have experienced concrete help from God.
Our meetings for women are needed. This is what we see and feel.
We are already planning the next one, this time in January.
Best wishes from Pyskowice.
S.M. Elżbieta Bandziak SMI
Nov 19, 2022 | DAILY BREAD
Christ the King – Solemnity
Gospel – Luke 23:35-43
Jesus is the King on the Cross. Crucified and humiliated in the Cross. But that King is the real king. Because in Jesus the Kingship is redefined. It is the not anymore, the earthly powers what determine the King. But it is the power to bridge the heaven and earth in love. It is the power to grant forgiveness in love. It is the power to embrace the sinner in love. It is the power to give one’s own life to the other in love. It’s the power to carry all the sins of the world out of love. That is the real power, the power of love. That is the real King. He saves us from our sins with His love. He embraces us with our weaknesses with His love. He does not judge. He does repairs for my sins. That is the King. Because He is God and became man out of His love for us to take to Him all our sins, weaknesses, and infirmities. In His love He becomes the absolution, becomes our strength, and becomes our healing. His love builds a community around that love. His love is the Kingdom, and He is the King.
Nov 18, 2022 | DAILY BREAD
Saturday of week 33 in Ordinary Time
or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Gospel – Luke 20:27-40
“Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive.’” There is a part of everything we see, and we feel that we don’t see, and we don’t feel. How do we want to fill that gap? The Sadducees in the gospel passage which we read, wanted to fill that gap by extending what they see and what they feel also to that part which they don’t feel and see. That is an easy choice. But a choice made by closing ourselves inside only the tangible realities. That is why Jesus is correcting them and teaching them. The transformation to the children of the resurrection is something you need to understand by faith. This process of faith, we must accept to understand the truth. Otherwise, we will remain in darkness, and we cannot remove that darkness by extending what we see. Because the light of what we see is not enough to brighten that darkness. You need the light of faith to brighten your whole life, both the seen and the unseen parts. Faith in Jesus Risen which takes us beyond all realities.
