Venice Film Festival: “Religion Today” program presented | AgenSIR

The round table “Dialogue between faiths, from a female perspective” opened the 25th edition, full of contents, at the Lido of Venice. The program has been unveiled from 14 to 21 September: “Religion Today” will bring 42 films in competition from 23 different countries to Trentino, with 11 national premieres, 4 European and 1 international … Read more

Communication: Father Lombardi’s 80th birthday. “Telling good is a mission” | AgenSIR

“The first thing I learned from experience – and it took me a while, however, to learn it – is that communication for a person who lives in the faith and in the Church is a participation in the mission of evangelizing, of communicating that it is precisely among the perspectives in which one can … Read more

Faith and culture: Assisi, from 2 to 4 September the Cortile di Francesco | AgenSIR

The eighth edition of Courtyard of Francesco. Personalities of civil society, the religious world and culture will discuss, from 2 to 4 September, on the theme of the eighth edition: “Eternal and the present time”. Over 30 meetings, special guided tours, musical events, artistic vertical dance performance by the “il Posto” company on the wall … Read more

Devotion: Umbria, the relic of Saint Anthony of Padua arrives from 29 August to 12 September | AgenSIR

The last few kilometers in Lazio in these days for the pilgrims of Saint Anthony who walk along the peninsula carrying a relic of the holy miracle worker in their backpack. The relay will be joined by Fra Massimiliano Patassini from Rieti, director in charge of the “Messenger of Saint Anthony” and of the “Messenger … Read more

Ordo Virginum: an exercise in synodality | AgenSIR

“Ordo virginum, prophecy of synodality. ‘Making hopes flourish, bind wounds, weave relationships, learn from each other’”: this was the title of the annual national meeting of the Ordo virginum (Ov) which took place in Rome, from 18 to 21 August, on the initiative of the Group for the national connection. Two hundred consecrated women, women … Read more

In His Image: in today’s episode I travel to Spoleto. Tomorrow focus on “the saints of the sea” | AgenSIR

A new stage of “A Sua Immagine estate” in Umbria, in the city of Spoleto, the result of the millennial evolution of the relationship between nature, environment and human society, permeated with the spirituality infused by the hermits and St. Francis of Assisi who found in Monteluco refuge and asceticism. Seat of the Festival dei … Read more

The hermitage of Santo Spirito in Majella. Vocation place of Pietro Celestino | AgenSIR

Everyone comes from a particular experience or life and chooses silence for needs that others do not have. This inevitably leads him to give himself a rule of life that is different from that of another. John Chrysostom wrote: “Jesus Christ does not use the name of a layman, nor that of a monk. […] … Read more

From the summer comes the appeal to care for the environment, our common home | AgenSIR

Summer, in the space of paths in the mountains, as well as on crowded beaches, without forgetting the beautiful experience of parish and association school camps that as bishops and priests we happen to attend, is an opportunity for encounters, bonds and friendships, faces and gazes , shared time, fraternity. It is in this experience … Read more

Charles de Foucauld. Archbishop Sapienza: “Brother of the last” | AgenSIR

A book to “let oneself be infected” by the life and spirituality of Charles de Foucauld, proclaimed a saint by the Pope on May 15 last. It was signed by Msgr. Leonardo Sapienza, regent of the Prefecture of the Papal Household (Photo: ANSA / SIR) “Let yourself be infected by Brother Charles’s experience of Jesus, … Read more

Diocese: Trapani, tomorrow the inauguration of the exhibition “H as Humanitas” | AgenSIR

Tomorrow, 2 July, at 9.15 pm, in the exhibition spaces of the San Rocco Museum in Trapani, the exhibition “H as Humanitas” by Paola Lo Sciuto, which enriches the thematic and symbolic path of the exhibitions present: the bi-personal “In- Segno ”and the exhibition by Antonio Vacirca. These are photographic, pictorial and sculptural works, an … Read more