If the ship of the Church, today, is in this storm, it is because the family is in the storm! The Church is formed by “domestic churches”, that are our families.
The Pope is steering the Ship of the Church, the ship of our families, in the direction of the Virgin Mary and of the Eucharist. He is driving the family, through this storm, in the true direction. It is necessary for us to be with the Holy Father, the successor of Peter, the representative of Jesus Christ on the Earth!
Unfortunately, there are persons that speak ill of the Supreme Pontiff and do not obey his directions. They say that he is undermining the progress of the Church and of humanity. But we know that all this is a lie. It is calumny raised because he is opposed to the projects of legalizing abortion, mass sterilization of men and women and of the legalization of the death penalty.
The fight against these absurdities is what the Pope is suffering and alot.
Monsignor Jonas Abib
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Be calm, it is very simple! Choose a small and familiar text and don’t hurry! Read the text, allow the Word of God to fall freely in your heart and allow yourself to digest it like absorbing food. That is the way to do it. Simple, you see?
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There are moments in life in which we pass through phases in ourselves. We are capable of explaining what we feel and what is passing inside us. In all these occasions, we need to have hope and patience with ourselves, because all the experiences of our live are precious, even when we don't understand them. In them, we grow humanly and spiritually.
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Nicole Melhado
Canção Nova News
edited with the official site of the 7th World Meeting of Families
Milan, Italy--“The family that prays together is together,” is what Cardinal Sean O’Mally, Archbishop of Boston stressed Friday Morning, June 1st on the third day of the 7th World Meeting of the Families, that took place in the city of Milan, Italy. The American Cardinal spoke on Sunday as the time of being with the family and the importance of going to Mass in the day.
“I recommend that they participate in the Sunday Mass and pray together. This strengthens your family and helps them to confront many challenges of our time that frequently tears,” he emphasized. ”
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“God created man to his image, to the image of God He created him, man and woman He created them.” (Gen 1:27)
God is beautiful and as He made us to His image and likeness, we are also beautiful and do not need to flee this desire that lives in the base of our soul. But this desire needs to be monitored in order that it will not come to dominate us.
We women, many times, we are insatiable, always wanting to remain still more beautiful; and this desire to be beautiful, in a disordered way, brings many woman a profound discontent and, has a consequence, the suffering that causes many pains. This anquished search for the perfect body can trigger anorexia, bulimia, depression and even bring one to death. In a report in Folha, doctors and therapists attest: “Still the greatest frequency may be around 15 years, even girls of 9 and 10 years have come to doctors offices having lost too much weight and found themselves fat.”
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Lisbon–The Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon considers that Catholics present in the diverse organs of social communication have the responsibility of growing, in these “difficult” times, in helping people to read the reality to the light of the hope that springs from the Gospel.
For Bishop José Policarpo, the “testimony” of faith can bring “women and men” to face actual problems “not only with immediate data of the economy or sociology” but over all with the vigor contained in the “message of Jesus”.
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We can only discover this response in God and only after we have walked a good piece of our journey. After having realized some of the missions that GOD has reserved for us…
What falls to us is to be daring and to ask God everyday what he wants of us, and each step to perceive the healing that He realizes in us and through us. And also the gifts and ministries that He is contemplating in us, making of us true tools and His hands, and using us to cure and liberate persons that He Himself put in front of us.
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