The Story of the Ascetic

Hi all… I hope you had a wonderful week? Thanks for all the messages I have being receiving, I can’t thank you all enough. It shows we are all trying to build a true catholic community. You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect (Matt: 5:48) Holiness is a value every Christian must strive for. The Gospel of this week reminds me of a young boy who wrote a letter to God saying "Dear God, I want to be just like my Daddy when I get big, but with hair on my head." we all want to be holy...

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The “Angel of the Trans-Amazonia”.

Six years ago this month, more than 2,000 poor Brazilian farmers walked to the remote jungle town of Anapu for the funeral of a catholic nun whom they called the “Angel of the Trans-Amazonia”. The angel had being murdered on a forest path after being intercepted by two gun men who fired six bullets at her. Dorothy was involved with the Pastoral land Commission, an organization of the Catholic Church that fights for the rights of rural workers and peasants and defends land reform in Brazil. She worked on a local sustainable development...

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