March 31st – Resurrection of the Lord
“Let’s rejoice because Christ is risen!
Love has overcome darkness and gives us the certainty that life will prevail over the forces of evil, violence, and war.
Jesus’ resurrection is the strength of our hope. Let us proclaim that life is eternal and blossoms within us every moment.
Let us awaken in ourselves the courage and energy to face the challenges of the present time. With love and compassion, let us proclaim to all those who suffer the hope of a new life already here on earth and in the world to come.
As disciples and messengers of the Risen Jesus, let us plant the seeds of goodness, love, and justice so that a new humanity can flourish.”
Happy Easter!
- March 30, 2024
Good Friday invites us in a special way to unite ourselves with Jesus in his Passion by contemplating his suffering and recognizing his great love for us in it. The cross and suffering are important elements in the spirituality of St Joseph Freinademetz. In a lecture to a group of catechists in 1893, he said: “There is one path that all those who want to become saints must take. I mean the contemplation of the bitter suffering of our Lord Jesus…”
Author: Michael Ertl, SVD
- November 16, 2023
Fr. Arnold did not found a Lay Mission Partner organization. However, thanks to his membership in the Apostleship of Prayer, for him there was no question that lay people had their God-given place in the missionary activities of the church. So let us first see how the Apostleship involved the laity in mission…
Author: Jurgen Ommerborn, SVD
- December 2, 2023
This is the first biography of Sister Mary Michael, who died on February 25, 1934. The author was a pioneer of historiography and spirituality of the Arnoldus Family – Father Hermann Fischer. In the introduction to the book he writes the following: “After teaching in the diaspora for ten years, Adolfine Tönnies joined the newly-founded Congregation of the Steyl Missionary Sisters. Five years later its Founder, Fr. Arnold Janssen, appointed a group of Sisters for the ministry of perpetual adoration, thus laying the foundation for the new Congregation, Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration. Adolfine Tönnies who, by that time, bore the religious name Sister Michaele, was one of the first members in the new Congregation. According to the plan of Providence, she was called to be its first superior. For nearly four decades, she was so involved in its inner and outer construction that she can rightly be called its co-foundress. In many respects, her story is the history of this Congregation, and the spirit of this Congregation is essentially a mirror of her own spirit.”
Author: Hermann Fischer, SVD
- April 12, 2024
Lord, you love life and you want us firm.
You love life and you have broken our bonds
You have us in your hands, you are our potter, do what you want from us…
Author: Unknown
- October 17, 2023
Author: Fr. Jürgen Ommerborn, SVD
Subject: Joseph Freinademetz Returns To His Parish Of St. Martin In Thurn, Steyl’s First Impression
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