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18/03/2025

25/02/2025

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Pope: Sad Christian faces are like pickled peppers!

"Sometimes these melancholic Christians' faces have more in common with pickled peppers than the joy of having a beautiful life,"…

…"Joy is something that does not come from short term economic reasons, from momentary reasons, it is something deeper, it is a gift,"

The pontiff described joy as "a gift from God" that "fills us from within" and "cannot be held at heel, it must be let go."

"It is a virtue of the great, of those great ones who rise above the little things in life, above human pettiness,"

He explained that it is a virtue "of those who will not allow themselves to be dragged into those little things within the community, within the Church" and that "they always look to the horizon."

Pope Francis, Homily, May 10, 2013

23/02/2025

Let's continue to pray for the Pope

On Sunday morning, the Holy See Press Office said Pope Francis had a peaceful ninth night in Rome's Gemelli hospital where he is being treated for ...

25/08/2024

Mary: our model. . .

29/01/2024

The St John of the Cross House of Studies Community and the OCDS St Teresa of Jesus Manila Community would like to invite you to the 2024 Carmelite Lecture Series with the theme “A Community Walking Together In Love”, to be held at 10am on February 10 and 24, 2024 at the Fr Mark Horan Hall, Minor Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mt Carmel. Topics and speakers are as follows:

February 10 - “A Journey to Holiness: St Teresa’s Teaching on Friendship”
Rev Fr. Danilo Lim, OCD

February 24 - “A Community of Living Charity: Learning From St Therese”
Rev Fr. Sheldon Tabile, OCarm

Registration is free so please feel free to invite your family members and friends so we could learn from these two great saints how we, as God’s people, journey together.

For any inquiries, pls text 09621771317

To register, pls click on this link:

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07/02/2023

From the Sayings of Light and Love of St John of the Cross

07/02/2023