With immense love and gratitude to God we wish you a very happy feast day. Every celebration is moment of grace and blessing. Today may you experience the joy of your purpose and continue to give thanks to the almighty who grant you the spirit of love and peace. As you continue to journey on the road of holiness, together with all the Sisters of the Congregation we prayer and wish that you …

Count your blessings instead of your crosses

Count your gains instead of looses

Count your joys instead of your woes

Count your friends instead of your foes

Count your smiles instead of your tears

Count your courage instead of your fears

Count your full years instead of your lean

Count your good deeds instead of mean

Count your health instead of your wealth Count on God instead of yourself

Luke 5:33-39

Today’s gospel refers to problems associated with change.  Jesus uses parables to teach about these problems, though his teaching is somewhat enigmatic.  First, tearing a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one does seem silly. Other gospel writers record a slightly different parable, referring instead to a narrower problem of using unshrunken new cloth to patch an old garment, which causes the patch to tear away.  (See Mark 2:21; Matthew 9:16).  But Luke’s version points to the absurdity of ruining a new garment in order to patch an old one, when the patch will not even look right when it is completed – a doubly unsatisfying result.

Holiness: A Path Travelled Together

“Growth in holiness is a journey in community, side by side with others.” – Gaudete et Exsultate 141.

Pope Francis, in this affirmation from his Apostolic Exhortation on the call to holiness in today’s world, touches on a central aspect of our lives as members of the UAC. As a member of the UAC and in the community journey shared with the other members, I am struck by how St Vincent embodied the great Christian value of Hope.

From July 15 to August 10, the Sisters of the Catholic Apostolate CSAC (Roman Pallottines) had their XXVI General Chapter under the theme: From the Cenacle to the world: Transformed by Jesus, “new wine”, we respond to the call of the Church by creating “new wineskins”, growing in fraternal relations and in prophetic witness.

One of the most important events of the Chapter was the election of a new General Administration, which consists:

Sr. Ivete Garlet - Superior General (Brazil)

Sr. Venicia Meurer - Vicar (Brazil)

Sr. Stella Marotta (Italy)

Sr. Liga Thottakath (India)

Sr. Helena Marquez Pimenta (Brazil)

From August 17 to 20, 2019 the "Bridge of Unity" Commission met for the second time. The members of the Commission are the two Superiors General of the Roman Pallottine Sisters (CSAC) and of the Pallottine Missionary Sisters (SAC), as well as three other Sisters from each Congregation. The meeting took place at the Generalate of the Pallottine Sisters CSAC in Rome.

"Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch"

The proclamation made by Peter and the Apostles does not merely consist of words: fidelity to Christ affects their whole lives, which are changed, given a new direction, and it is through their lives that they bear witness to the faith and to the proclamation of Christ... This applies to everyone: we all have to proclaim and bear witness to the Gospel. We should all ask ourselves: “How do I bear witness to Christ through my faith? Do I have the courage of Peter and the other Apostles, to think, to choose and to live as a Christian, obedient to God?”

Colossians 1:1-8
Psalm 52:10, 11
Luke 4:38-44

I am a procrastinator. There, I said it. It’s been proven by my actions, but I don’t often admit it. I am sure it comes as no surprise to those around me as I offer excuses, turn things in late or push deadlines to their limits. Today’s gospel turned my mind to procrastination and doing what needs to be done. Jesus tells the crowds who come looking for him and want him to stay longer that he has to go to other towns: “I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God,
because for this purpose I have been sent.” 

1Thessalonians 5:1-6, 9-11; Luke 4:31-37

Readings like these always give me a jolt.  On the one hand, they contain promises of deliverance and beatitude for the children of the light.  On the other hand, they warn of a coming wrath in which God will surprise the wicked like a thief in the night and from which no one will escape.  Although Paul assures us that we are all “children of light and of day,” and will, therefore, escape this wrath, there remains the lingering question, how do we know?  I imagine that question was not lost upon Paul’s audience.  I sometimes use this technique on my kids:  “your mother and I know, honey, that you would never be involved in that sort of thing, but just in case you are, here is what might happen to you.”  You parents know the drill.  For most things, these threats are simply designed to pique a moral conscience that is, hopefully, already fairly well formed.  However, the events that might follow the Lord’s coming like a thief in the night seem to be quite a bit more serious and carry more dire consequences should we be caught in the dark.