Monday 6 February

Monday 6 February

Feb 5, 2023 | DAILY BREAD

Saints Paul Miki and his Companions, Martyrs First reading - Genesis 1:1-19 Reading the creation narration one truth becomes very clear. Everything comes from the Word of God. “God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light”. Then God saw that what came into existence is good. Everything in the nature is from the Word of God and is good. Then in the reading we can see that God is assigning each created being a place and a role. We must understand this truth very well to have the right relationship with the nature around us. This is very important to find our own place in this picture. Everything in the nature is willed by God and is approved by God as good. Moreover, each created being has its role and responsibility. So, what must be our relation to the nature? Our relation to the nature must be a relation which respect that truth. The truth of the creation which must become part of our life which makes us sensitive to all ecological issues and sensible to the pain of each created being. And we cannot distance ourselves away from this truth. We are entrusted with this truth to be cared with responsibility. Let’s reflect: how much sensitive am I to the truth of creation, that everything come from God, and everything has its good place in the creation?
The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, Day of Consecrated Life

The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, Day of Consecrated Life

Feb 5, 2023 | NEWS

Even if all the sisters on the monastery hill are already are old, yes, and precisely because we are old - we have time to pray and also time to celebrate. On the Day of Consecrated Life we celebrated Holy Mass with the Franciscans and afterwards it was a very nice get-together in our refectory..... In gratitude for our vocation and for the good togetherness, Brother Michael gave each of us a rose and emphasized...we would be much poorer - if we did not know each other - it is something wonderful - that we have each other - may it remain so for a long time. While drinking coffee we had very good conversations and shared many memories from all the meetings in the past years. Yes - this afternoon has done us all good and we agree ... to use the next opportunity to meet again, to stay together on the path of discipleship. Sr. M. Felicitas
Sunday 5 February

Sunday 5 February

Feb 4, 2023 | DAILY BREAD

5th Sunday in Ordinary Time St Agatha First reading - Isaiah 58:7-10 “Share your bread with the hungry, and shelter the homeless poor, clothe the man you see to be naked and do not turn from your own kin. Then will your light shine like the dawn”. It’s a very clear message of how to become the light of the world as the gospel today is announcing. Only one word is to underline. Share your bread with the hungry. The word is “your”. Here we are not speaking about giving bread to the hungry. This is about sharing. And it’s about sharing our bread. That means, “I eat less, and I give a share of what I should have eaten, to the one who is hungry”. There is a world of difference between giving food to the hungry and sharing my food with the hungry. You become light when you recognize the difference and share your bread with the hungry. Helping the poor is easy and fancy when it is not sharing our own bread and our own house. It becomes Christian when we share our bread. We become followers of Christ when we share from what we have. That is when our light shines like the dawn. Light of the dawn is something which comes out of the darkness. This act of sharing of our bread with the hungry is like that because it is something that comes from the darkness of our ego and selfishness. Let’s reflect: Am I sharing my bread with the hungry or am I just giving some bread with the hungry from what is surplus?
We are more precious for what we are than for what we have

We are more precious for what we are than for what we have

Feb 4, 2023 | POSITIVE IMPULSES

We are more precious for what we are than for what we have. This is a fundamental principle which we must keep in our life. Our efforts in our life must not be to acquire more and more things but to bring out what we are truly. We must never define ourselves with the things we have or things we earned. We must try to define ourselves with what we are. And our aspiration should be to go beyond ourselves, beyond our selfish interests. Anything what we have is not as precious as what we are, because what we are, determines our happiness and what we have, determines where we are. Wherever we are, our happiness depends on what we are! Don Giorgio
Saturday 4 February

Saturday 4 February

Feb 3, 2023 | DAILY BREAD

Saturday of week 4 in Ordinary Time Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary First reading - Hebrews 13:15-17,20-21 The reading speaks about the sacrifices that please God. Jesus Christ offered the perfect sacrifice for us and through Christ we continue to offer unending sacrifice of praise by acknowledging His sacrifice. But this must be complemented by our own sacrifice after the model of Christ. What is that? “Keep doing good works and sharing your resources, for these are sacrifices that please God”. Doing good works and sharing our resources. The two dimensions which our sacrifices must have. It’s not enough we are doing good actions but also, we must be sharing our resources. Charity and Justice. Often, we find ourselves happy with good works and we abstain from sharing what we have. Again, the reading defines the good action. It is doing His will in any kind of good action. An action becomes a good action in faith only when it is done as His will. Good actions done as His will. I do this because God wants me to do this. Not because it’s just a good action. Again, why we must share? We share to transform ourselves to be acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. We share as Jesus shared Himself. Let’s reflect: Am I doing good works as the will of God, and do I share my resources as Jesus shared Himself?