Anne Cullender, our General secretary is now talking about the Salvatorian Universality & Mission and how we can interpret or see it today and use it as a creative tool for evangelization. The video is also available with French and German subtitles.
Maybe it’s not the right frame here for that but in light of the escalating current violence in Eastern Europe but also aware of the many small and bigger armed conflicts around our world with devastating effects on people and the environment, I would like to share this music video. It is intended to be thought-provoking and to invite a subsequent short prayer of one’s own choice for peace. War has always been the worst solution to any problem, and it usually leads to others. Actually, we should have learned that by now in our thousands of years of human history …
Let’s put down our weapons and let’s find better solutions in common for the future.
The General Committee has established its own ICDS YouTube channel to present videos about Salvatorian topics. At the moment there are some available already, some more will be to find there soon. The videos will be published in different languages and we try to add subtitles in other languages to the videos, too. In case you will not find your language, get into contact with us and we will send you a copy of the original text so you can translate it.
We would like to get some feedback and motivation from you because we are all learners and try to improve ourselves permanently.
This time we may offer a common prayer vigil in several languages as far you have an interest. You will find the prayer material here to download → https://preghieracontrotratta.org/.
For more information, you can also have a look back on our post from last year or get into contact with the International Salvatorian Committee for justice, peace, and integrity of creation.
We count on your solidarity and support!
Merry Christmas from the General Committee –
Feliz Navidad de parte del Comité General
| a Christmas fairy tale | un cuento de Navidad | Weihnachtsgeschichte |
Faith community arrives in Glasgow to pray, press world leaders for strong action at COP26
Catholic groups outline priorities ahead of Glasgow COP26 climate change summit
Feel invited to share your thoughts about the topic GOP26 and climate change in the mirror of our catholic faith below in the comment section.
Peter Knox, S.J., of South Africa joins Sebastian Gomes, an executive editor at America Media, on “Behind the Story” for an honest conversation on climate change, the upcoming COP26 meeting and what Catholics can do to respond to Pope Francis’ calls for ecological conversion.
At the end of July, an important step in the cooperation of the Salvatorian Family will take place and needs your support and possible attendance. A three days online conference is planned covering different topics and we invite you to sign in for it. The conferences respect as good as possible the different time zones of each unit. It would be a good sign to be present at least in one of it to show our all Salvatorian unity and close mutual relationship of the three Salvatorian branches. Furthermore, the topics of the conference are of importance for our worldwide Salvatorian mission of today. Each Salvatorian unit is part of the whole and gets in touch with these topics. The international Salvatorian Commission for Justice and Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) made a prophetic commitment at their last assembly: “To realize and awaken the awareness of Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation, and to respond to the calls of the Gospel of Jesus the Saviour, in defence of human dignity, which recreates fraternity, promoting more respect for all divine creation”.
We can see the effects of the imbalance of these concerns all over the world. Whether it is access to clean water or air to breathe, the equitable distribution and payment of raw materials, supply chains, intermediary trade, labour exploitation and migration, or the many armed conflicts with global implications. We all also need to become more and more aware of man-made climate change with its catastrophic effects – and every one of us can do our part to prevent this world from plunging into the abyss. The world would have enough resources for all of us, but it does not have enough to satisfy our greed!
We are called to make our contribution to the preservation of creation. God gave us this world to live in and to keep it, but not to exploit and sell it.
Sign up to the email contacts on the posters to get the access data, please. We are looking forward to seeing you at the conference!
Stay well. God bless you.
Giuseppe Rogolino, our Lay Salvatorian in Rome, made a fine summary video of the Beatification ceremony. Enjoy it …
Pay special attention to the final scene, and write what you saw.
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