Act with compassion
Act with compassion
Davao, Philippines – Friendship instead of video games
Observing the problem of addiction to computer games of many children around her, Lani decides to act. Together with Alvin and the Focolare community in Davao they put their talents to work. The Bukas Palad Football team is born.
Thought of the day
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1st September, the “Season of Creation” begins
In the message published on the occasion of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Leo XIV urges us to face today’s ethical and cultural crisis that includes the desire for war, domination and the pursuit of profit. What is needed is “an authentic ecological conversion” that comes from the heart.
Chiara Lubich: “untying humanity’s most difficult knots”
A prayer by the founder of the Focolare Movement to Our Lady, Untier of Knots
Living the Gospel: seeing our brothers and sisters
The Word of the Gospel proposed for this month is: “My soul magnifies the Lord”, the opening words of Mary’s song when she met Elizabeth.
The commentary on the Word of Life says, “The words of this hymn invite us to understand God’s salvific intervention in our personal and community life, leading towards the new heavens and the new earth that the social revolution of the Gospel inaugurates.”
These experiences show us that praising God means taking the side of the little ones and believing that the world can, and must, change.
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