Interview with Sr M. Rebecca by Claudio Tanturri ‘I was a treble voice in the Rai Choir as a young girl, then I studied at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome where I received a diploma in Operatic singing. I also had the experience as a singer of pop music for “Four and Five […]
I always knew I loved the Lord! I felt that God had ‘something’ for me to do from an early age. The prospect of the Religious life was ‘definitely not for me!’ Although I loved the Lord intensely I was frightened to ever seriously explore what it may mean and besides I could never leave […]
The little word that is more valuable to God than any other is “YES”! God pronounced His “YES” to man in the silence of eternity. Adam and Eve said their “no” to God through the confusion and deceit of the devil. To say “NO” to God’s love means that we will live far away from […]
‘All things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose’ (cf Rm 8:28) It is with this certainty that one must pray to the Lord to ask Him; ‘Lord, what do you want me to do? If this happens in my life, or this other thing what do […]
Love of the Holy Father After the Holy Eucharist and the Immaculate Virgin Mary, our ‘third white love’, to which the Virgin of Revelation referred to on the 12th April 1947, is the Holy Father. It is the third fundamental column of the Catholic Faith, and without it no-one can truly refer to themselves as […]
Love for the Immaculate Virgin Mary Mary is the Mother of the Church and our tender Mother who takes care of her children and doesn’t ever leave them alone. At the Grotto of Tre Fontane, Mary, appearing to Bruno, revealed to him that She was always close to him and never abandoned him. Even when […]
Love for the Eucharist The gift of the Eucharist is the gift per excellence, the greatest gift that God could give to humanity. It is a mystery of God’s love that He comes to us hidden under the form of bread and wine to stay with us always. In St John’s Gospel we read that […]
In this month we would like to consider the part of St Luke’s Gospel that recounts the episode of the Archangel Gabriel’s Annunciation to Mary (Lk 1:26-38). This part of the Gospel starts with the apparition of the angel Gabriel “to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and […]
Mark’s Gospel (Mk 16:1-8) tells us that early in the morning, on the first day of the week, as the sun was rising, Mary Magdala, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome went to the tomb with spices to anoint the body of Jesus. The women were asking each other who would remove the large […]
The Year of Faith “And when they arrived [in Antioch], they called the church together and reported what God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.” (Acts 14:27) With this citation the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, initiated his Apostolic Letter Porta Fidae that inaugurated the Year […]