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SMA-NDA: Hermeneutic Seminar_Calavi_2022: Day 2
This 2nd day of the meeting began in an atmosphere of recollection. In the morning, the participants entered the mysterious bowels of the Brésillac Center to meditate on the theme of “Our experience of our founders and charism today”. The personal reflection was guided by this fundamental question: Who are the founders for me, in…
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SMA-OLA: Hermeneutic Seminar_Calavi_2022: Day 1: Opening of the session
As announced a few days ago, the SMA-OLA Session started this Tuesday, July 19 at the Centre Brésillac of Calavi in Benin. This first day was devoted first to the welcome and installation of participants. In the afternoon, there was a first meeting during which various officials succeeded each other to express their welcome to…
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Pope Francis: Digital media raises serious ethical issues
Pope Francis says SIGNIS “can play an important role” in meeting the challenge of “toxicity, hate speech, and fake news” in the media. Although modern means of communication can be “a powerful means of fostering communion and dialogue within our human family,” they can also become “places of toxicity, hate speech, and fake news,” warns…
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SMA-NDA session in Benin from 19 to 26 July 2022
From July 19 to 26, 2022, an SMA-OLA session will be held at the Brésillac Center in Calavi, within the framework of the reflection on the common spiritual heritage of the two Institutes.The members of the SMA-OLA Commission and the SMA and OLA delegates of the different units of the two institutes are expected to attend this…
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The celebration of the 140th anniversary of Fr. Auguste Moreau in Combre
Introduction: Dear beloved brothers and sisters, we are gathered together around the Lord’s table on this day when we celebrate the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, before suffering his passion, made a very strong gesture: by giving his body and blood as a food; his body delivered and scourged…
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AFRICA/NIGER – Pentecost and the fire of arms: the time of the African martyrs is not yet over
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – A few days before the massacre of the faithful of the Catholic Church in the small town of Owo, Nigeria (see Fides 6/6/2022), the Norwegian Refugee Council (NCR) has published its annual list of the 10 forgotten crises in the world. For the first time since the publication of the report,…
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Jubilee Celebration at the retirement House in Montferrier (France) on June 7, 2022
70 years of priesthood: Fr.Joseph Marty 60 years of priesthood: Fr. Jean Charrier; Fr. Jean Louis Duffés; Fr. Gérard Landais; Fr. Loïc de la Monneray; Fr. Jacques Sicard; P. Sébastien Epphère; Fr. Marcel Provost. Homily of Bishop Michel Cartatéguy from the reading of the first Book of Kings, 17, 3-16 “Get up and walk,” God…
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Plenary Council 2022 : Day 12
It’s been 12 days already! We haven’t seen them go by, for so much importance and vitality has been given to the topics discussed. Today’s morning saw the discussions stop on various subjects. These included the planning of future meetings, some information and then the vote on the Council texts. The highlight of the evening…
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Plenary Council 2022: Day 10 and 11
The sun is shining more and more in Rome. The heat is on. Nevertheless, the Plenary Council is courageously navigating through the vicissitudes of the weather and the complexity of the issues under discussion. Yesterday and today were devoted to the adoption of various texts. It was also a question of the structure that deals…
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SMA Family Meeting in “Wonderland” Zinswald-Alsace
Here we are once again, gathered in a beautiful setting to reflect together between the SMA Fathers, the NDA Sisters, and MCS-C, to consolidate the relations between our Councils also through relaxation, times of prayer, and copious meals shared together…So, this is already the second time that our Councils have come together to exchange and…
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