by Elena Bulzi Gold, blue, red. These are the chromatic notes that dominate the mosaic of the Assumption of Mary created by Aligi Sassu in 1964, in the apse basin of the Lodi Cathedral. The red, for example, is not a purple, the expensive color of the upper classes, a sign of power, but it…
Read MoreGrace and mission: the vocation to consecrated life
The month of August, dedicated to the various vocations in the church, presents the theme of the Vocation Year 2023 “Vocation: Grace and Mission”, and the motto of “Hearts burning, feet on the way” (Lk 24:32-33). God calls his children to a vocational response to the priesthood, marriage, religious consecration and lay ministries in the…
Read MoreMother Cabrini Jubilee Prayer
Today is an important date for our Institute. On December 22, 1917, Mother Cabrini returned home to God in Chicago. Today and especially this year, we wanted to share the prayer written on the occasion of the proclamation of the Jubilee Year for the 75th anniversary of Mother Cabrini’s canonization on November 13. Mother Cabrini…
Read MoreWho was St. Francis Xavier for Mother Cabrini
It began with adopting his name Mother Cabrini’s veneration of St. Francis Xavier.In the document entitled “Personnel in charge of the Institute” drafted by Mother Cabrini on a parchment preserved in the Cabriniano Museum in Codogno, she placed the saint as a zealot for the Congregation that was about to be born.Let’s read an excerpt…
Read MoreA poem by an Afghan refugee
After the new wave of emergency and suffering in Afghanistan, many were forced to make drastic decisions to seek safety and protect their families. In this poem, a young refugee shares the joys of her past, the sorrows of her present, and the uncertainty of her future. I wish to go back to the past,…
Read MoreWE CANNOT DISCARD WHAT WE HAVE “SEEN AND HEARD”
We MISSIONARIES are the presence of God among the people; we are, therefore, the creators of the “ever greater WE” of which Pope Francis speaks in his Message for the 107th World Migrants and Refugees Day 2021. Christ died and rose again so that all may be ONE (cf. Jn 17:21). In the present time when we are in the…
Read More#Praywithus
Many of you will be familiar with the #Praywithus section on our website cabriniworld.org.This is the beautiful little chapel, always decorated with beautiful flowers, that we have at the Generalate in Rome. Here, every day, Sister Maria Regina and other Sisters take care of the prayer requests that we are receiving in large numbers through…
Read More15th August – Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven
From Epistolary of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini – Volume 3 Letters from 1897 to 1901 “On going to heaven, may the Most Holy Mary leave all her beautiful and magnanimous virtues to you”. From Between One Wave and Another “While we were contemplating, it seemed that from the sky, covered with graceful clouds, a small…
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