Day 1, Novena for Peace. Extracts from St John Paul II's homily at Pentecost in England, 1982: "Wherever the strong exploit the weak; wherever the rich take advantage of the poor; wherever great powers seek to dominate and to impose ideologies, there the

Day 4, Novena to Mary, Source of Joy for the Little Ones. Extracts from Papa Francisco's exhortation on the joy of the Gospel, Evangelii Gaudium: "Saint Thomas Aquinas taught that in the Church’s moral message there is also a hierarchy, in the virtues and

Day 3, Novena to Mary, Source of Joy for the Little Ones. Extracts from Papa Francisco's exhortation on the joy of the Gospel, Evangelii Gaudium: "The Word has in it a potential that we cannot predict. The Gospel speaks of a seed which, once sown, grows b

Day 2, Novena to Mary, Source of Joy for the Little Ones. Extracts from Papa Francisco's exhortation on the joy of the Gospel, Evangelii Gaudium: "The proposal is to live at a higher level, but not with less intensity: “Life grows by being given and weake

Day 1, Novena to Mary, Source of Joy for the Little Ones. Extracts from Papa Francisco's exhortation on the joy of the Gospel, Evangelii Gaudium: "I invite every Christian, in whatever place and situation they may find themselves in, to renew their person

Day 9, Novena to Mary, Mother of our faith. Quote from Papa Francisco's encyclical on faith, Lumen Fidei: " In the family, faith accompanies all the stages of life, starting with childhood: children learn to trust in the love of their parents. This is why

Day 8, Novena to Mary, Mother of our faith. Quote from Papa Francisco's encyclical on faith, Lumen Fidei: " In the family, faith accompanies all the stages of life, starting with childhood: children learn to trust in the love of their parents. This is why

Day 7, Novena to Mary, Mother of our faith. Quote from Papa Francisco's encyclical on faith, Lumen Fidei: "Two other elements are essential to/in the faithful transmission of the memory of the Church. First, the Lord’s Prayer, the Our Father. In it the Ch

Day 5, Novena to Mary, Mother of our faith. Quote from Papa Francisco's encyclical on faith, Lumen Fidei: "Christian faith, inasmuch as it proclaims the truth of God's total love and opens to the power of this love, arrives at the deepest centre of the ex

Day 4, Novena to Mary, Mother of our faith. Quote from Papa Francisco's encyclical on faith, Lumen Fidei: "If love needs truth, truth also needs love. Love and truth cannot be separated. Without love, the truth becomes cold, impersonal, oppressive for the