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Les diocèses de France sont invités à célébrer à Lourdes les 50 ans de l’ouverture de Vatican II les samedi 24 et dimanche 25 mars: ce seront deux jours de rassemblement en action de grâce pour tous les fruits reçus du Concile.

Dimanche 18 avril, après la Messe, sera coupé le ruban marquant l'inauguration et la remise de 16 petites maisons construites à Manille par les Serviteurs de la Charité et destinées aux familles comptant des handicapés.

Today, the liturgy offers us an advanced flagrance of true Pascal joy. The ornaments of the Celebrant are pink. It is “laetare” Sunday inviting us to a serene joy. “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love her...”, says the antiphon of the introit sung today.

Today, we find Jesus again in Cana of Galilee, where He had previously made the well known miracle of changing the water into wine. Now, on this occasion, He performs a new miracle: the recovery of a royal official's son. In spite of how spectacular the first one was, this second miracle is, undoubtedly, more valuable, for what Jesus solves with this miracle is nothing material, but a problem of a human life.

The wide-ranging conversation covered topics including the exodus of Christians from the Middle East, the situation in the Holy Land, discrimination against Muslims in Europe, and inter-religious dialogue. Drawing on his years of experience in the Middle East, Cardinal Tauran said, “Christians have the feeling [that] they are 'second class citizens' in countries where Muslims are the majority”.

La lettre du Mgr Ettore Balestrero adressée au Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man après le visite pastorale au Archidiocèse de HCM ville.

Today, the Church celebrates the solemnity of Saint Joseph, Mary's husband. It is like a joyful interlude within Lent's austerity. But, the joy of this feast should not be an obstacle to our advancing along the path of our personal conversion, as preceptive in Lenten time.

Today, Saint John speaks of the parable of the pool of Bethzatha. It rather looked like the waiting room of a traumathology hospital. “There lay a multitude of sick people-blind, lame and paralyzed” (Jn 5:3). Jesus went up there.

Today, the Gospel speaks of the reply Jesus gives to those who do not look at Him with good eyes when He chooses to cure the disabled man on Saturday.

This is the hypertexted version of The Meanings Of The Holy Qur'an by Abdullah Yusufali.

Pope Benedict XVI’s choice of theme for the Way of the Cross this Good Friday - the family - comes at a most propitious time in the life of the Church and wider society.

For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.

n the evening little Toyo went at the proper time to the threshold of Mokurai's sanzen room. He struck the gong to announce his presence, bowed respectfully three times outside the door, and went to sit before the master in respectful silence. "You can hear the sound of two hands when they clap together," said Mokurai. "Now show me the sound of one hand."

“If people were to know what has taken place so far,” superior court judge David Shaheed from Indianapolis said, “it would be more instructive than anything else. We’ve brought our communities together, showing how positive dialogue can result in concrete action.”

Pope Benedict XVI: Apostolic Journey to Mexico and to the Republic of Cuba

The restoration of unity among all Christians is one of the principal concerns of the Second Vatican Council... The Lord of Ages wisely and patiently follows out the plan of grace on our behalf, sinners that we are. In recent times more than ever before, He has been rousing divided Christians to remorse over their divisions and to a longing for unity...

The restoration of unity among all Christians is one of the principal concerns of the Second Vatican Council...Everywhere large numbers have felt the impulse of this grace, and among our separated brethren also there increases from day to day the movement, fostered by the grace of the Holy Spirit, for the restoration of unity among all Christians. This movement toward unity is called "ecumenical".

This Wednesday, 21 March 2012, is the Bahá'í New Year for more than four hundred and eighty Bahá'í communities across Canada. It marks the beginning of the 169th year of the Bahá'í Era.

There are more than 5 million Bahá’ís in the world. The Bahá’í Faith is established in virtually every country and in many dependent territories and overseas departments of countries. Most nations and a few territories have a National Spiritual Assembly elected by the Bahá’ís of that jurisdiction.

There is none other God but Thee, the Almighty, The Most Exalted, the All-Powerful, the All-Wise.

Today, the Gospel teaches us how Jesus faces the following objection: as Deut 19:15, says, “one witness is not enough to convict a man accused of any crime or offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses”.

Today, evangelist John tells us that Jesus' time “had not yet come” (Jn 7:30). He is referring to the hour of the Cross, to the precise and precious time of his submission for the sins of the entire Humankind. His time has not yet come, but it is getting very close.

A sense of the dignity of the human person has been impressing itself more and more deeply on the consciousness of contemporary man (1), and the demand is increasingly made that men should act on their own judgment, enjoying and making use of a responsible freedom, not driven by coercion but motivated by a sense of duty.

The Lord Jesus, before ascending into heaven, commanded his disciples to proclaim the Gospel to the whole world and to baptize all nations: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; he who does not believe will be condemned” (Mk 16:15-16)

Du 15 au 18 novembre 2011, un colloque s’est tenu à Shijiazhuang, dans le Hebei, sur le thème « Liturgie et Inculturation ». Le P. Jean Charbonnier, des Missions Etrangères, y a pris part. Il en rend compte dans le texte ci-dessous.

John Paul II highlighted their role several times when, referring to the guiding principles of the Second Vatican Council, noted that "lay people play a fundamental role in the life and mission of the Church".

Some 400 Christian leaders from around the world began a six-day conference in Manila today on Christian mission and evangelism organized by the World Council of Churches.

This is the hypertexted version of The Meanings Of The Holy Qur'an by Abdullah Yusufali.

I am very happy to be here, and I give thanks to God for allowing me to realize the desire, kept in my heart for a long time, to confirm in the faith the People of God of this great nation in their own land. The affection of the Mexican people for the Successor of Peter, whom they always remember in their prayers, is well known.

‘Bienvenido al corazon de Mexico’ – ‘Welcome to the heart of Mexico’ are the words emblazoned on a giant billboard at the entrance to Guanajuato airport and the people of this city, at the geographical centre of the country, have certainly pulled out all the stops to welcome the Pope.