Friday July 15th, midday. Slowly the convent is filled with laughing, chatting, joking teens who don’t find it very difficult to say goodbye to their parents who are there to drop them off. They look like they are ready for a few days of fun, but also for catechesis, the…
I want to briefly tell you all a little bit of the story of nineteen great saints and how we celebrated on July 9th in our dioceses, Rotterdam. Gorcum – Brielle 1572 The protestant reformation was in full-swing. The cruelty reigned against those who believed and professed publicly Jesus´ true,…
“The family is the way of the Church” “The divine mystery of the Incarnation of the Word thus has an intimate connection with the human family. Not only with one family, that of Nazareth, but in some way with every family, analogously to what the Second Vatican Council says about…
God’s mercy can make even the driest land become a garden, can restore life to dry bones (cf. Ez 37:1-14). … Let us be renewed by God’s mercy, let us be loved by Jesus, let us enable the power of his love to transform our lives too; and let us…
