Moving on with Foco

Women In Christian society, women  are awarded equal rights as men since they possess souls which are not subject to genders or castes. Their place in society enfolds their being as women and is entrusted the tasks of ...

When silence surrounds you like the barbed wired of a concentration camp, and the ingratitude with the abandonment of your brethren isolates you, think of Mary: poetry will flow like the sunlight brightening the horizons of your imagination, ...

Upon breaking the bread So while conversing, they reached the village, still wrapped by the first shadows which the hills were rapidly pushing down. Having reached their destination, the two disciples stopped by, and the other was ready ...

Jesus’s burial The day was about to end, and in the dusk, the lifeless cadaver was taken down from the cross and wrapped in a sheet. In that moment, Christian piety allowed the dead body to lie on ...

That child which Mary and Joseph contemplated in adoration, and which the angels watched with their hosannas, and about which billions of souls will not cease to repeat, in verse and poetry, their emotions as redeemed people, is ...

In an assiduous controversy, Jesus asserts: - Whoever observes my word, will not suffer death forever. Clearly: practicing the Gospel means practicing the life of God which is unending. Due to these words the listeners picked up stones ...

 Unity Every system divided in itself breaks. Only what is united holds fast. The first feature of the Church is unity; the first characteristic of the family is unity. These two societies are divinely instituted precisely due to ...

Some reflections of Giordani in line with the liturgy of this Lenten period. Temptation Misery is atheist. Misery – Péguy said — is to economy what hell is to theology. It is hell on earth. Hell is then ...

Ashes This morning we were all reminded that we are dust and to dust we shall return. This elementary truth imbues fear and particularly looms above all who work to spread death with their homicidal philosophies. This truth ...

Old works, renewed by love “E” as in “Enemies” When I saw a Hungarian honved or an Austrian Kaiserjäher (war enemies) wounded in a rock fissure or huddled up in a grenade trench, I felt no hatred. Was ...