Author name: Marie Venner

Ed- Dear friends, Spirit Unbounded organiser Maggie Conway shared her Lenten goal to memorize The Lord’s Prayer in its Aramaic translation — beautiful, insightful, and recommended! Prayers of the Cosmos, Meditations on the Aramaic words of Jesus The below translation of The Lord’s Prayer from Aramaic to English is taken from the book, Prayers of […]

The book, It’s High Time: Women Religious Speak Up on Gender Justice in the Indian Church, found sacramental blackmail, clergy sexual abuse, clericalism and property disputes as some major challenges facing Catholic women religious in the country. “We train nuns to understand different forms of abuse, not only sexual but verbal and other forms.” Bhopal, India —

By Astrid Lobo Gajiwala, Mumbai, India. “We have sought to sing like a choir, many voices as though expressing one soul.  The Holy Spirit has gifted us with an experience of the harmony that (S)He alone can generate; it is a gift and a witness in a world that is torn and divided.“ These opening

From Catholic News Service, 14 Feb 2024 Share on FacebookShare on TwitterEmail to a friendPrint The vice of “acedia,” often translated as “sloth,” can cause laziness, but it is much more than that; it is a lack of caring for anything and being bored with everything, even one’s relationship with God, Pope Francis said. “The

Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary of the synod By Joshua McElwee, Vatican City — February 13, 2024, Share on Facebook, Share on Twitter, Email to a friend, Print from NCRonline As the Vatican prepares to host the second part of Pope Francis’ major summit on the future of the Catholic Church this October, one

Creator God, as we enter the Lenten season, strengthen us to embrace opportunities to…Fast from hurting words and say kind words.Fast from sadness and be filled with gratitude.Fast from anger and be filled with patience.Fast from pessimism and be filled with hope.Fast from worries and have trust in you.Fast from complaints and contemplate simplicity.Fast from

With gratitude to theologian and historian of church organisational structure, Dr. Luca Bandini, January 2024: Synodal input continues this year…bishops have been asked to host listening sessions focused on the guiding questions shared by the Vatican. We have a ways to go before the structure and organization of the Church would help all the baptized

Bishop Gabriele Marchesi of Floresta of the Commission for Laity of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) opened the national conference expressing his hope: May the gathering may give a new energy to the Brazilian Basic Ecclesial Communities and help increase the role of the laity in the local Church. “Every layman and

Alloys Nyakundi spoke at the October 2023 Spirit Unbounded weeklong event for lay people worldwide, paralleling the Synod on Synodality. Alloys leads an international online Small Christian Community called Young Seekers, made up of leaders of other Small Christian Communities. Alloys is still based in his hometown of Nyandoche Ibere, a village of 2000 that