You are here: . Home . Archive “Taking a Stand” . Archive Archive "Taking a Stand" Calls to action to make life thrive/3The coming days will bring to maturity the hopes and efforts of two intense journeys taken over the last few years and which will soon converge more directly with the birth of the new Southern Europe region... Call to action to make life thrive/2Call to action to make life thrive/2 By the Editorial Board In these times of intense commitment to the mission, we often experience complex situations in which we have to find ourselves, look up and … Calls to action to make life thrive/1We felt caught up in a great wave of revitalizing energies for the mission during the braodcasting of the Direction Statement concerning the 31st Chapter of the Congregation. Yet, we were prepared – … We take a stand to touch the hearts and lives of people/4We leave behind us a summer in which the sun went out several times, in which the principle of “Everything is connected” did not apply, as in a short circuit, leaving us breathless, We take a stand to touch the hearts and lives of people/3by Sister Teresa Linda Summer 20217 “God will come to meet you where your humanity has descended all the steps of weakness and you have reached the awareness of your limitation. If you yourself do not choose the path of abasement, life will take you where you would not want “ We take a stand to touch the hearts and lives of people /2By Sister Teresa Linda April - May 2021The message of these days is always new and surprising, almost unbelievable: Lent culminates in the Paschal Mystery and thus opens our hearts to a living hope, capable of nourishing the fight for justice and the dignity of every person: “I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and Hades.” Revelation 1:18. We take a stand to touch the hearts and lives of people/1By Sister Teresa Linda February-March 2021 With the month of February, we begin a new cycle of more spiritual reflections that will complement those that we will be sharing “in depth” on our way to the 31st General Chapter We take a stand against the culture of violence against womenBy Fiorella Capasso,Fiodanice-Cultures en dialogue December 2020-January 2021 – part 2 We take a stand for the feminine. This is the key, spotted in the mist[1], that violence against women drops on us, both if we look at traditional cultural contexts —a dominant patriarchy, even if tempered by globalization—and if we admit what is going on in our Western world: We take a stand against the culture of violence against women By Fiorella Capasso,Fiodanice-Cultures en dialogueNovember 2020When a little girl comes into the world, in every region of the world, this hands her a “natural” inheritance full of paradoxes which, from an early age, will make her structurally vulnerable and exposed to male violence We take a stand to protect children from pain and injusticeBy Fiorella Capasso,Fiodanice-Cultures en dialogueOctober 2020 We leave behind us a summer in which the sun went out several times, in which the principle of “Everything is connected” did not apply, We take a stand for A special year of Laudato Si’ because everything is connectedBy Fiorella Capasso,Fiodanice-Cultures en dialogue June 2020Everything is connected. Like a mantra, in recent weeks, this truth has resonated from many places in our communities thanks also to the four webinars, Conversations at the time of the Coronavirus We take a stand for the mysterious awakenings to responsibilitiesBy Fiorella Capasso,Fiodanice-Cultures en dialogue May 2020Even if we don’t will it, God matures[1]. These words – together with one of the most significative reflections of the Foundress, Saint Mary Euphrasia, “This is as the mysterious work of a hive, where each occupied herself for the general good.” We take a stand for resilience as a widespread capacity to lifeBy Fiorella Capasso,Fiodanice-Cultures en dialogueApril 2020 Never as in these stormy days—which we will remember as those of the Coronavirus—have we felt the need to refine our human, spiritual, professional and organizational skills through which we typically accompany the paths of resilience We take a stand for diversity as a condition for hospitable relationsBy Fiorella Capasso,Fiodanice-Cultures en dialogueMarch 2020 …so the other calls us with his look, with his invitation: “Welcome me”. We do not allow diversity to turn into inequality or violence, we answer: “Here I am”. We take a stand for diversity as a condition for hospitable relationsBy Fiorella Capasso,Fiodanice-Cultures en dialogueFebruary 2020 The value and methodological approaches that have developed throughout the history of the Congregation have been brought up to date thanks We take a stand for a beloved peace rooted in reconciliationBy Fiorella Capasso,Fiodanice-Cultures en dialogueJanuary 2020 Since 1968, the New Year, on the first day of its first month, opens with an anniversary that calls everyone to make peace: the World Day established We take a stand for human rights in everyday lifeBy Fiorella Capasso,Fiodanice-Cultures en dialogue December 2019 This month we celebrate the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem: for the Christian religion, God becomes man and descends to the earth to save humanity. We take a stand for justice and dignityBy Fiorella Capasso,Fiodanice-Cultures en dialogueNovember 2019 We have prepared a new look for the website of the Italy-Malta Unit, driven by the desire to enhance the ancient charism from which our mission...
