PENTECOST VIGIL 2020
PENTECOST VIGIL 2020 Opening song In the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen Alleluia. Christ is risen. R.…
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Pentecost Letter for 2020
Come, Holy Spirit, and Renew the Face of the Earth (cf. Ps 104, 30) In the midst of winter, I discovered within me an invincible…
SPIRITAN NEWSFLASH No. 16
POSTPONEMENT OF GENERAL CHAPTER Dear Confreres and Lay Spiritan Associates, At our meeting this morning, 15th April 2020, the General Council decided to postpone…
SPIRITAN NEWSFLASH No. 15
Dear Confreres and Lay Spiritan Associates, In a short few weeks our lives have been changed in ways that we could never have imagined. What…
XXI General Chapter-PARTICIPANTS
The current coronavirus pandemic has given rise to considerable uncertainty in regard to the feasibility of different events over the coming weeks and months. At…
Meeting of New Spiritan Superiors in Rome
From February 24th to March 6th, 18 new Spiritan superiors came from 13 countries, but one superior could not make it, because he was sick.…
Prayer for the XXI General Chapter
God of new beginnings, God of our founders and ancestors in the Faith, As we prepare for our forthcoming General Chapter in Lichen, Poland, we…
VIVAT International
VIVAT International is a Non-Governmental Organization which has a membership of 13 Catholic Religious Congregations, working in 120 countries for promotion of human rights through…
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Maryland county lifts ban on Communion
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 28, 2020 / 10:48 am (CNA).- Howard County, Maryland, has reversed a policy that banned consumption of any food or drink during religious services, effectively preventing the licit celebration of Mass. A county […]
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Vatican archives will reopen to scholars June 1
Vatican City, May 28, 2020 / 10:00 am (CNA).- The Vatican Apostolic Archive will reopen to researchers June 1 after closing for 12 weeks due to Italy’s coronavirus lockdown. The archive was forced to close to scholars the second week of […]
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Congress passes Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act
Washington D.C., May 28, 2020 / 09:00 am (CNA).- The House on Wednesday evening passed legislation to respond to the mass detention and other human rights violations against Uyghurs in the northwestern Chinese province of Xinjiang. “We cannot […]
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"The Spirit implants in us the desire to serve the poor and oppressed and shapes our hearts to respond to this desire. The Spirit is behind all the sources of encouragement and inspiration that have directed and sustained the members of our missionary family over the centu-ries- Sacred Scripture, personal and shared prayer, our life in common with our confreres and with those to whom we are sent, the example and writings of those Spiritans who have gone before us" (Maynooth General Chapter: chap. 3, p. 107).