The word “quarantine” comes from the Latin root "quadraginta," meaning “forty.” The word for Lent in many romance languages comes from this root – Carême (French), Cuaresma (Spanish), and Quaresima (Italian). So as we live the quarantine, we are very literally living Lent!...
Beth shares her experience of visiting her daughter, Justine, on mission in Senegal. On a sandy side street of a densely populated area, the mission home in Dakar, Senegal beats with the presence of the Holy Sacrament in the chapel of a corner room. I witnessed the disciplined life of prayer that my daughter, Justine (USA),...
Due to the current situation of the spread of the coronavirus worldwide, the Con-solatio non-profit wants to remind each one of its members about the importance of following the measures recommended by the civil and health authorities of the country where they reside, and of keeping up to date about the changes and developments thereof. We...
Andie is on mission in India. As often as we in the West talk about the weather, the people here in our corner of India talk about food. ‘How are you?’ is replaced with ‘Saptingelaa?’ (‘Did you eat?’) from which flows an entire conversation about what, when, and how much we ate. Beyond surface-level pleasantries, I’ve come...
Selen Y. lives in our Brooklyn community. There is a women’s homeless shelter that we visit every Tuesday. This facility is specific for women that also suffer from mental illness. What gathers us together is that we sing songs of worship and we pray a decade of the rosary. The women that I encounter at the shelter make me...