Excitement…Anticipation…Readiness was in the room as the Sisters and Associates gathered for the annual Area Assembly in Warwick and Cincinnati. Sr. Licia Mazzia and Sr. Paola Zaccaria were special guests for both Assemblies...
Last year in Padua, during a pastoral activity, some young participants and Sisters went to meet a woman who attended a project called, “The Colors of She who knows.” It is an experience that involves migrant women of different...
We each live the story of the Resurrected Jesus in our lives – and the life of the congregation – as well, but again, because of our different experiences in life and in our relationship with Jesus, we would tell the story differently...
About three years ago, two parishes in Pistoia, Italy -- St. Benedetto and St. Francesco - worked together to produce a growth experience for the teenagers who just had confirmed. There were about fifteen of them, and it was a challenge...
And suddenly, I am filled with hope because we, small as we are, are a community of faith, maybe a “remnant” of who we were, but we are, and we are here now. We are the mustard seed because we are small, we are transformable, by the grace...
Perhaps nothing in science fiction is as captivating as black holes. In some science fiction TV programs in the last 20-30 years, show space ships trying to move in a certain direction, and yet, they were drawn, slowly and steadily, into a direction...
Hello to everyone, my name is Francesca, and I have been an associate of Franciscan Sisters of the Poor for several years. I live and work in Rome, my hometown. From 2002 to 2004 I stayed in Casetta Nova, a center for young people...
I’d like to begin with a question: Why are we doing this? Why are we looking at science for a greater understanding of God? Why aren’t we looking at THEOLOGY? The answer is very simple: because our understanding of the universe...
