"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are anger and courage. Anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”
Happy Feast of St. Augustine!
Since the news about my resignation from the PCPM I have received many positive messages.
I am deeply grateful for all the support!
Together, we can overcome the challenges and problems on the journey toward
#aSaferChurch
and a safer world.
Omnia in bonum.
"The mission of the Church is not to carry Christ to the world as if he were absent from it... (it) is to help the world recognise Christ, who is already present"
@karlrahner_sj
Have a blessed Sunday - buona domenica - feliz domingo - bon dimanche - einen gesegneten Sonntag!
Karl Rahner SJ: "When on
#AshWednesday
we hear '...you are dust,’ ...we are told everything that we are: nothingness that is filled with eternity; death that teems with life; futility that redeems; dust that is God’s life forever."
"The Holy Innocents remind us of majority of people, especially children, who have been & continue to be victims of war, violence, and poverty."
A. Delp SJ
#ChildDignity
Thorough
@nytimes
analysis of history & background of sexual abuse of youth & adults by Card. McCarrick & why it went on despite reporting (by a priest!).
Kudos to all who have courage to speak about the hurt they have suffered.
A lot to learn from.
#CommittedToSafeguarding
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick sexually harassed his seminarians for years and got away with it. Now one victim speaks. We look at
#MeToo
in the Catholic Church. With
@sharonNYT
Blessed Easter Sunday - buona domenica di Pasqua - feliz Domingo de Pascua - bon Dimanche de Pâques- einen gesegneten Ostersonntag - bom Domingo da Ressurreição!
W. A. Mozart, “Alleluia” from “Exsultate, jubilate”
Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Excercises
n. 203: “Ask for grief with Christ in grief... for tears & interior suffering on account of the great suffering that Christ endured for me.”
Bernardino Gatti, "il Sojaro"
The Virgin mourning the dead Christ (c. 1528)
Louvre, Paris
Excited being at Grotto in Lourdes (it's snowing!), asking Our Lady for help in efforts of Safeguarding;
w/ Bishop Borys Gudziak of Greek-Catholic community in France
"The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim God with their mouths and deny Him with their lifestyles is what an unbelieving world finds simply unbelievable."
@karlrahner_sj
#Lent
#Quaresima
John 2,13-25
Giotto (1303/05) Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padova 🇮🇹
Celebrating 80th birthday of my uncle and godfather.
For almost 50 years he has been cantor, member of the parish council, responsible for charitable activities in his parish in Sinzing
@BistumReg
🇩🇪 Ad multos annos.
Vergelt's Gott, may God reward you!
Blessed Advent Sunday - Buona domenica di Avvento - Feliz domingo de Adviento - Bon dimanche de l'Avent - Gesegneten Adventssonntag!
Alfred Delp SJ (+1945) on Advent:
"May God help us to wake up to ourselves
and in doing so, to move from ourselves toward Him."
Piazza di S. Ignazio a Roma 🇮🇹
Ieri alla celebrazione di 400 anni dalla morte di San Roberto Bellarmino.
La banda musicale dei
@_Carabinieri_
Con la musica da "Mission" di Ennio Morricone.
@Gesuiti
@UniGregoriana
@jesuitnews
Today in Rome a top Vatican expert in the protection of children,
@hans_zollner
, held a press conference explaining why he suddenly resigned two weeks ago. Here are some of the main takeaways. More on
@EWTNNewsNightly
tonight.
The organising committee will meet soon and will gather input from the bishops conferences and the various dicasteries of the Holy See. We look forward to working together for a positive development in Church praxis on safeguarding.
#CommittedToSafeguarding
#PBC2019
So sad: these children have been abandoned by their mothers in dustbins, along the roads, or with false names in hospitals in Nairobi 🇰🇪
God bless Sr Maria from Poverelle Sisters of Bergamo for giving them home & new family
#CommittedToSafeguarding
@CCP_Rome
Blessings on Pentecost - feliz Pentecostés - buona Domenica di Pentecoste - Gesegnete Pfingsten
Jesuit Church Vienna - Wien 🇦🇹
Architect and painter Brother Andrea Pozzo SJ (+1709 in Vienna)
Blessings on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul - fiesta de San Pedro y San Pablo - Solennità dei santi Pietro e Paolo
Petrus et Paulus
4th century etching, Rome
Obsculta..., inclina aurem cordis tui -
Listen..., incline the ear of thy heart.
Rule of St. Benedict of Nursia
Happy Feast of St. Benedict, Co-Patron of Europe
Memorial of Blessed Rupert Mayer SJ (+1945): Apostle of Munich 🇩🇪, leading figure of Catholic resistance to Nazism.
"Lord, whatever you will, for me is gain".
Happy Feast of Teresa of Avila!
Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you.
All things pass.
God does not change.
Patience achieves everything.
Dios solo basta.
Have a blessed Sunday - buona domenica - feliz domingo - bon dimanche - einen gesegneten Sonntag - bom domingo!
Deeply grateful for celebration of 25 years of priesthood in my home parish, St. Elisabeth Kareth
@BistumReg
@jesuiten
#AMDG
Meditation of the Call of the King: "Ask grace of our Lord that I may not be deaf to His call, but ready and diligent to fulfill His most Holy Will" (Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises n 91).
@jesuitseurope