Carrón: "Life presses on"

"The fact we cannot make the pilgrimage to Czestochowa has not erased the irreducible need that inspires it." Summer proposal for high school and college graduates.

Summer 2020

Vacations: The Time of Freedom

In the face of the current circumstances, Fr. Giussani's words are even more relevant, an aid to "enjoy" the next few weeks.

Letters

We Shared Life

7.31.2020Despite the masks and social distancing, Stacey experiences an extraordinary vacation.

Disappointed as I was that the Communion and Liberation Family Vacation had to be cancelled this year due to the pandemic, I recognized how much I longed for that time with friends. A few of us started discussing the possibility of a small group going to...

Letters

Perth: The gift of tenderness

7.30.2020Lockdown in Australia. At home with his daughters and grandchildren, an apparently ideal situation. Yet it was not easy: “I was forced to take steps”, until his daughter washed his feet on Holy Thursday.

If I look at my experience of these past months – we were in lockdown in Australia as well - I think that I was among the privileged. I have a permanent job at the university and the lockdown period coincided with my sabbatical semester. I have been at ho...

Letters

Latin America: A companionship "on the road"

Only four of them were able to undertake the annual university students' pilgrimage to the Shrine of Aparecida. With them, connected via video link, were dozens of friends from nine countries.

Letters

His Faithfulness Defines Me

7.28.2020The present situation provokes our desires for peace, rest, hope, meaning. But where are they to be found?

This time has been very intense, and I am incredibly grateful for it. The gratitude is born from the recognition that in all the mess around me and inside of me, I have an identity that is certain and given. As I face what is happening, particularly in re...

Letters

Taipei: Angie and Rosalia are back

They were baptised in the parish of the priests of the Fraternity of St. Charles. Then life took them far away. But, during lockdown, they came across Fr. Emanuele’s videos and they asked to meet him again. Their friendship was re-ignited

Current Events

“Caro cardo salutis”

Translations of Chapter 3 of Fr. Julián Carrón's book "The brilliance in your eyes - What saves us from nothingness?"