May 14th was a very special day for the world. Pope Francis invited us to celebrate a special worldwide interfaith prayer for the end of this pandemic. All the believers of different religious traditions, prayed together from the different corners of the globe. This is a sign of a world who is facing this hard […]
This week we’ll take a break from the Coronavirus news. All the world is tired to listen to the same plot again and again. I want to share with you something different: this week as Xaverian Missionaries here in US, we had a chance to celebrate a virtual “Iftar” with our Muslim friends that are […]
Many countries are lifting the stay-home orders, about 30 states in US are doing that and Italy is preparing to the “fase-2” the “second-step”. But are we ready to reopen? Is it time to do that? Last February we had the first case of COVID-19 in Italy and also in US. But only in March […]
This week COVID-19 virus predominated the daily scenario, as well. All the news talked mostly about that. I think, you have seen the slogan: “Social distancing = communism” – and the other one – “Sacrifice is a weakness”. Only few examples of the protest we had in United States against “social distancing measures” adopted by […]
In these days all the world is locked at home, our life is changed after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our life is changing rapidly, we are working and studying from home, we can’t go to restaurants, pubs, movie theatres, because they are closed. The doctors and nurses are doing a very hard work; […]
Out of the blue, this virus visited us. Everybody is changing his life-style, for nobody the life is the same, like some days ago. All of us are self-isolated in our houses, thinking: When will all of this be overcome? We find out our fragility, we were believing we are powerful and almighty but now […]
What means unity of Christians? Do you think is it possible to worship together belonging to different churches? I don’t know what do you think, but in Holliston (MA), this year we celebrated an Ecumenical Ash Wednesday and I can tell you that it is possible! It was a marvelous experience to find out that […]
The music is a beautiful instrument to express unity and harmony among people. This is the way we have found in Holliston, MA to testimony how our differences as Christian believers can become a meeting place and not a dividing walls. Watch the video to see how beautiful is the Unity of the Christian Family!
Have you ever entered in a synagogue? Have you ever prayed with a Jewish community? Today, when every Jews celebrate the Tu B’shevat, I chose to do it! This celebration is called also “the holiday of the trees“, indeed the Jews sitting around a table and reciting prayers they eat some fruit from the land […]
Have you ever thought about the relationship from the Church and the politics? How this “places” can be work together? Is it possible? Is not better worship the Lord without any political engagement? Massimo Faggioli, Italian Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University and contributing writer to Commonweal magazine. Today at Assumption College, […]