A few days ago I found some Carmelites couplets, from which comes the title of a book about the life of St. Maravillas de Jesús: God is my Father. The following are the first few verses: God is my Father, how happy I am! I am his child, a child…
On October 22nd, the commemoration of St. John Paul II, we celebrated the first retreat day for our group of children preparing for their First Communion. We started the retreat at nine o´clock in the morning and ended at two o‘clock in the afternoon. As usual, we gathered them first…
The Closing of the Jubilee Year for the 350 Year Anniversary of the Election of Our Lady “Consolation of the Afflicted” as the Patroness of Luxembourg City It was in the year 1666, when Our Lady, under the title “Consolation of the Afflicted”, was proclaimed and she was officially recognized…
On October 21 we celebrated, together with our children, the day of our patron St. John Paul II. He is the Patron Saint of our Oratory for children. For this occasion, we organized Bingo. Even though the oratory is dedicated children, to the spiritual and human formation of children; this…
Origin and Significance of the Catholic Feast of All Saints. All Saints Day is a Christian celebration which takes place on the first of November. On this day, the Church celebrates in a solemn manner all those departed who, having overcome purgatory, have been totally sanctified, obtained the beatific vision…
During the Holy year of Mercy we held a camp for teenage girls in our convent in Brunssum. The program was based on learning how to be a real Christian. The teenagers went to Mass every day along with time for inside and outside games. The talks were about how…
On August 5th, first Friday of the month, the community St. Bridget of Sweden (in Iceland) had the joy and each one in particular, to make the consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. After the Mass Fr. Horacio Cabana (IVE), the chaplain of the community, blessed the image, which now…
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…
