Excerpts:(Tafara, Zimbabwe) The Zimbabwean business community offered advice and career guidance to the Catholic youth from the Redemptorist parishes at a ‘Youth Mission Experience’, a program organized by the Redemptorist Region of Zimbabwe to help young people to make better decisions about their carrier choices. It took place from the 12th to the 15th of […] Read on »
(Sai-Gon, Vietnam)- With the beginning of the season of Advent, the members of RYM SAI-GON “go to the mountain” to prepare their minds and hearts to welcome the coming of the Savior. The retreat took place on 1st and 2nd of December 2018 in the Retreat center of Cistercian nuns in Phuoc-hai, Vung-tau. The atmosphere was […] Read on »
(Brazil) Thousands of people are homeless and destitute after a raging fire destroyed at least 600 homes near Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish in Manaus, Brazil on 18th Night. No deaths have been reported, but residents were forced to flee with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. Fr. José Amarildo Luciano da […] Read on »
“Until one feels the spirit of Christmas, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display-so much tinsel and decorations. For it isn’t the holly, it isn’t the snow. It isn’t the tree not the firelight’s glow. It’s the warmth that comes to the hearts of men and women when the Christmas spirit returns again.” […] Read on »
(Australia) The Redemptorist Congregation have got into the Christmas spirit with the release of their version of the famous Yuletide carol, God rest ye merry gentlemen. The Redemptorist Province of Oceania has their fingers crossed for a top 10 hit with the song that dates back to the 16th century or even earlier. An all-time […] Read on »
(Bratislava, Slovakia) Prayers, novenas, and songs devoted to Our Lady of Perpetual Help are now available in digital form from December 2018. The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, the Redemptorists, who commemorated this week the 153th anniversary of the handing over of the icon to the Redemptorists by Pope Pius IX, officially presented the […] Read on »
An illuminating and sometimes alarming book, “Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing the World”, speaks about 600 million people, more than half of India’s population, are under 25 years old; no country has more young people. According to ‘World Population Prospects: The 2015 revision’ Population Database of the United Nations Population Division, India has the […] Read on »
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