Healing and Care

Healing and Care

Healing and caring are not always the same thing: even when healing is not possible, caring is a requirement.  A couple, from behind, look at the sea: the boy embraces the girl, left without hair due to chemotherapy. A little girl is on her grandfather’s...
Walking in Sadness

Walking in Sadness

“Look: today I put before you life and happiness, death and misfortune…Choose life, and you will live.” (Deut 30:15,19).  We have all experienced sadness in our soul at some point. That deep sadness that colors what we experience with heaviness and antipathy....
The first love that sustains us

The first love that sustains us

Many pages have been written about love. And it will always be a topic to which we pay attention and give time, because – consciously or not – we seek to love and be loved.  This deep desire is present from our origin. We are beings created by love...
A Diversity That Enriches

A Diversity That Enriches

Already from the time of the apostles, and in the first Christian communities, the Gospel reached people’s hearts through different paths. “Diversity and unity were very present,” Pope Francis reminds us in this month’s prayer intention: yet, only a few...
Pausing for reflection in our everyday lives

Pausing for reflection in our everyday lives

We have all had the experience that every journey, every path, requires moments of pause and reflection, in which to regain strength and recall what we have traveled and the direction of travel. Sometimes when we walk, we often get tired, or we don’t always get...