The Pope Video – January 2024

The Pope Video – January 2024

“There is no need to fear the diversity of charisms in the Church.” This is how this month’s Pope Video begins, which is created and produced by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network. Pope Francis invites us not “to fear diversity.” Rather, he tells us, “this diversity...
Prayer of the Month – January 2024

Prayer of the Month – January 2024

Holy Spirit, who builds the unity of the Church and shows your infinite creativity through the diversity of charisms, fill the Church with your gifts, according to the marvelous God’s Providence design, so that we may learn to appreciate the gifts of others and work...
FOR THE GIFT OF DIVERSITY IN THE CHURCH

FOR THE GIFT OF DIVERSITY IN THE CHURCH

St. John Paul II famously wrote in his encyclical, Ut Unum Sint, “the Church must breathe with her two lungs!” He was referring to the “lungs” of East and West, praying and hoping that someday the Church would be fully united in her rich diversity of rituals and...
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...