Our tiny Handmaid community in Boscombe is totally integrated into the life and ministry of our Parish, Corpus Christi, both in the schools and the Pastoral work of the parish. Our chapel, too, is a much-frequented centre for prayer and adoration. So as the Covid 19 lockdown has...
The 106th World Day of Migrants and Refugees will be celebrated on 27 September 2020. As the title for his annual message, the Holy Father has chosen “Forced like Jesus Christ to flee”. The message will focus on the pastoral care of internally displaced people (IDPs), who currently...
“We are all in the same boat” (Padrinazgo COVID19) is a simple program that aims to alleviate not only the effects of the food crisis that was triggered by the quarantine, but above all to continue, during these days of social isolation, weaving bonds of closeness and friendship...
Life in quarantine has forced us to stay closed up within our houses, leaving aside the routines that reinforce our relationships with others. The absence of real contact with others can lead us to concentrate on ourselves, on our personal worries, obsessed by a constant process of self-protection. It...
There is a lot circulating around the internet these days, and it is not always easy to choose where and what we want to focus and linger upon. Let’s be aware that if we are not selective, the current will sweep us away. Some pointers from our ABC to help...
In these times of “remaining at home” we are all obeying the regulations for our own sake and that of others. So that no one will feel alone and abandoned, we have set up the “telephone hotline” which is answered by Elena, a Daughter of Charity. Moreover, we...
At the Oasis Católico of Athens (Georgia – USA) where a Handmaids community have been involved in for 17 years and are willing to continue for as long as possible we are we are just wondering how our ministries will evolve post pandemic… As many of you know already...
Dear Immigrant Brothers and Sisters: As these days of lockdown caused by Covid 19 are being extended, I want to tell you that from the 13th, I am at your service by means of : (WhatsApp 647265838, video calls and email: cdcacj@yahoo.es and diazcortesconsuelo @gmail.com) To many immigrants with NIE...
“The Eucharist is like an impact that is so great that it causes waves that make the sea the sea and not a lake.” This “image” of the Eucharist in our lives illustrates, in some way, the time spent as a live-in worker in the nursing home “Lar...
The profound and joyful certainty that the Eucharist is life… and the limitless desire to “place Christ for the adoration of the peoples” inspires us each day, and it did so in a new way during this Holy Week in the midst of the pandemia. In Chile, a few...