written by Victorine Mbuyamba-Muanza, fos Our meditation on this mystery of the passion and death of the Lord will not take its inspiration directly from the account of the passion, but from the Fourth Suffering Servant Song (Isaiah 52:13-53:12), the first reading of the Liturgy of the Word on Good Friday. The servant suffers and Read More
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Written by Anne Brittain, fos Exodus 12v1-8, 1 Corinth 11v23-26, John 13:1-15 At the start of the most solemn days of the liturgical year, the readings call us to remember and to act. The remembering of liberation (Pesach), that takes place each year in Jewish households, with its questions and quest for deeper meanings in modern Read More
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Pictures of Palm Sunday, from the Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem. Apoio: Luciano Dias, fos
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Written by Flor Maria Quesada, fos Pray for the peace of Jerusalem Prosperity in your homes! Peace within your walls. (Psalm 122, 6) On this day we remember the entrance of Jesus in Jerusalem Jesus asked his disciples to bring a tethered colt and Jesus mounted it to enter in Jerusalem. The crowd of the Read More
Read MoreShort Commentary on Palm Sunday by Sr. Anne, sister of the Congregation of Notre Dame de Sion. Sister Anne-Catherine Avril is religious of Our Lady of Sion and lives at Ein-Kerem, Jerusalem. She has spent most of her life in Israël and she had opportunity to study Bible and Judaism at the Read More
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Check the pictures from Ein Karem`s Garden during that Spring.
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St. Casilda (10th/11th century) Feast day: 9th April Patron saint: for Muslims converting to Christianity St. Casilda was the daughter of a Muslim leader in Toledo, Spain, in the 10th century. Casilda was herself raised as a Muslim and showed special kindness to Christian prisoners by frequently sneaking bread into the prison, hidden in her Read More
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March 25th, 2014, the Feast of the Annunciation, was a very special day for the Sisters of Sion. At Notre Dame de Sion in Ein Karem, six women, from Guatamala, the Philippines, Brazil, and Egypt, began their “Canonical Year” in the newly established Congregational Novitiate there. In this village, some 2000 years ago, Mary the Read More
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Text: Joel Moreira, nds Revision: Rose Theresa, nds Drawing:Małgorzata Mrówczyńska, fos
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