Letters

Letters - 2019

Life, Work, and Friendship

2.15.2019Letters

Maristella recounts how a question shared among friends became the spark that gave birth to the New York Encounter's Professional Corner.

From left, Liv Martin (USA), Justo Lopez (Mexico), and Jose Guillermo (Panama) waiting for Pope Francis at the WYD Volunteers' Meeting.

Volunteering at World Youth Day Panama: A Privilege to Beg

2.15.2019Letters

"Volunteering, choosing to submit my freedom for the design and service of another, fundamentally, educates me to the nature of my original position — that of a beggar."

The Fraternity: My "Special Work"

2.1.2019Letters

Michele recounts her experience participating in an overnight with her community to better understand the meaning of belonging to the Fraternity.

Midwest Diaconia: Living Our Vocation, Responding to Reality

1.25.2019Letters

We publish three witnesses from the United States Midwest Diaconia which took place in Chicago in December 2018.

The cross of our Holy Father Benedict. CC0

The New Haven, CT, community established a bond with several Benedictine Sisters from the Monastery of the Glorious Cross. In this letter, a member of the community shares the striking story of one of them, Sister Marie-Bruna.

The Certainty of a Presence

1.4.2019Letters

After spending a summer as an "animatore" in Italy, Sylvain discovers the meaning of what to him seemed to be the greatest paradox: Preference.