Greetings and prayers for peace throughout our world, As we prepare this letter, our Church is in Synod whose theme is How to be a missionary synodal Church. The meditations given during the preparatory retreat before the synod by Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, OP invite us to pause and ponder. Fr. Radcliffe used four themes of Christ’s resurrection in the Gospel of John. We invite you to visit the Vatican News website to ponder his words and challenges. These reflections call us to…

I am grateful to the Lord for his gift to spend a few days with the postulants who were preparing for the novitiate praying with them and for them.Our journey began with a pilgrimage to Vallecorsa, where we stopped at the places that marked the milestones of St. Maria De Mattias' Christian initiation and vocation. Sr Isabella and Sr Concetta warmly welcomed us, offering hospitality and a good lunch.Arriving in the evening in Acuto, we wanted to ask for the…

It is heartwarming to see how day after day the good continues to materialize through the generous and tireless work of the ASCs. Maria De Mattias would surely be proud of us, indeed she is! I am sure that she misses nothing of what her daughters think, say, do and, most of all, live. I realize that a newsletter cannot express or contain the vitality and aliveness of ASCs, but it can give, so to speak, a taste of it.…