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May 4, 2024 By Salt + Light Hour
How do we teach young people to have prolife discussions? This week, Camille Pauley of Healing the Culture tells us about their new series, “Forbidden Discussions”. Marie Claude Lalonde of Aid to the Church in Need brings us an update from Sudan; Mark Matthews has just returned from Europe , and we reconnect with Canadian, husband-and-wife duo, Jesse and Kathleen LeBlanc aka, Found … read more
May 2, 2024 By Pope Francis
Join us in prayer for the intentions entrusted to us by Pope Francis. For May 2024, we join the Holy Father in praying for: The formation of men and women religious and seminarians Let us pray that men and women religious and seminarians, grow in their own vocational journey through human, pastoral, spiritual and community formation, that leads them to be credible witnesses of the … read more
May 1, 2024 By Pope Francis
During his weekly General Audience, Pope Francis reflected on the theological virtue of faith. He said that "Faith is the virtue that makes the Christian. Because to be Christians is not first and foremost about accepting a culture, with the values that accompany it, but being Christian is welcoming and cherishing a bond, a bond with God: God and I, myself and the amiable face of Jesus. This bond … read more
April 30, 2024 By Aline Haddad
In Lebanon, May 1st is much more than a date on the calendar. It's a spiritually charged day heralding the start of the month of Mary. Thousands of pilgrims head to Our Lady of Lebanon, a shrine to honour the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, patroness, protector and Queen of Lebanon. This festival bears witness to the deep piety of the Lebanese people, especially Lebanese Christians, for the Holy … read more
April 28, 2024 By Pope Francis
Pope Francis concluded his Pastoral Visit to Venice with Holy Mass in St. Mark's Square. In his homily, he said that "faith in Jesus, the bond with him, does not imprison our freedom. On the contrary, it opens us to receive the sap of God’s love, which multiplies our joy, takes care of us like a skilled vintner and brings forth shoots even when the soil of our life becomes arid." Read the full … read more
April 28, 2024 By Pope Francis
Pope Francis began the second part of his Pastoral Visit to Venice with a meeting with young people from the Veneto Region in the Basilica of Santa Maria Della Salute. In his address, he encouraged listeners to "Arise to say 'here I am!' to the Lord, who believes in us. Stand up to welcome the gift that we are, to recognize, before anything else, that we are precious and irreplaceable." Read … read more
April 28, 2024 By Pope Francis
Pope Francis continued his Pastoral Visit to Venice with a tour of the Holy See's pavilion of the Biennalle Arte international festival in the Women's Prison on Giudecca. In his address to artists and participants in the pavilion, he said that "art has the status of a 'city of refuge,' an entity that disobeys the regime of violence and discrimination in order to create forms of human belonging … read more
April 28, 2024 By Pope Francis
Pope Francis began his Pastoral Visit to Venice by meeting with inmates and staff of the Women's Prison on Giudecca. He said that "Each one of us has his or her own uniqueness, he or she has a gift and this is to be offered, to be shared." Read the full text of his address below. You can watch the full broadcast of the pope's visit to Venice here. Meeting with Inmates Address of His … read more
April 27, 2024 By Salt + Light Hour
How do we integrate soul and body? This week we lean about SoulCore, a fitness and prayer ministry that does just that. Antonia and Danny Torchia return to tell us more about rearing rebels through Spiritual Works of Mercy; Billy has a question about priests and artificial intelligence; and we reconnect with singer/songwriter Danielle Savard, who has a new album, Warfare. Email Deacon Pedro … read more
April 26, 2024 By Peter Rajchert
Poor Clares' recovery is a sign of resurrection. Driving south from Sherbrooke to nearby Lennoxville along rue Queen, travellers enter a landscape of small businesses with healthy deciduous forests and fertile farmland stretching out into the distance. At 313 rue Queen, a welcoming ochre building with large windows and a steeple with a cross at its summit catches their eyes. If they were to see … read more
April 25, 2024 By Matthew Neugebauer
The Holy See Press Office released the program for Pope Francis' trip to Venice coming up this Sunday. It will be a quick jaunt up to La Serenissima in the morning, and then back to Rome in the afternoon. We'll have the full broadcast for you in English starting at 10:30 am ET / 7:30 am PT and in French starting at 3:30 pm ET / 12:30 pm PT. Subscribers can watch on Salt + Light TV and on Salt + … read more
April 24, 2024 By Pope Francis
During his weekly General Audience, Pope Francis turned to reflect on the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity. He said that "the great gift of the theological virtues is existence lived in the Holy Spirit. The Christian is never alone. He does good not because of a titanic effort of personal commitment, but because, as a humble disciple, he walks in the footsteps of Jesus, the … read more
April 20, 2024 By Salt + Light Hour
This week on a special edition of the SLHour we focus on questions on Artificial Intelligence with our Hollywood Undercover Missionary, Mark Matthews who has been reporting on all the conversations about artificial intelligence taking place in the world of engineering, technology and also in Hollywood. Join us for conversations on fear of technology, how the algorithm works, synthetic AI, … read more
April 18, 2024 By Deacon Pedro
Some 1000 years ago, Armenian St. Gregory of Narek set out to write what is today considered to be one of Christianity’s spiritual masterpieces. St. Gregory’s Book of Lamentations, is a “colloquy,” a conversation with God, an attempt to offer the “pure sighs of the broken and contrite heart” (as the book’s description puts it) as words pleasing to God. In this compendium of 95 prayers in 10,000 … read more
April 17, 2024 By Pope Francis
During his weekly General Audience, Pope Francis reflected on the virtue of temperance or "moderation." He said that it is "the capacity for self-mastery, the art of not letting oneself be overcome by rebellious passions, of establishing order in 'the jumble of the human heart.'” Read the full text of his address below. You can watch the full broadcast on Salt + Light TV on Thursday night at … read more
April 16, 2024 By Matthew Neugebauer
Out in a field under the shade of a tree, a young woman tells her brother she's concerned about his monotonous work and weighty responsibilities. They're both in their early twenties, but the brother is already a religious Brother and Father -- a fully-professed monk and priest of Citeaux Abbey in France, the birthplace of the Cistercian Order. His life is about to get more arduous, but for him … read more
April 15, 2024 By Maria Montemayor
“The commitment, sacrifice, passion and generosity of our St. Mary’s D.R.E.A.M.S. students and chaperones never cease to amaze me!” - Don Hall, Chaplaincy Leader This year marks the 25th anniversary of the D.R.E.A.M.S. program at St. Mary’s Catholic Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario. The D.R.E.A.M.S. (Dominican Republic Education and Medical Support) program is an immersive experience … read more
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