Portal on faith and homosexuality
“We lost the Bible! We have lost the Word of God! We have become accustomed to living without the Bible, which has been locked away in the academic space reserved for experts. The Bible was taken away from the people, and the people thus lost, perhaps... their dynamism and their strength. Strength that is born from the Word of God incarnated in daily history” (Nancy Cardoso Pereira). It's time to rediscover the words of the Bible together.
Text by Father Shannon Kearns* of March 31, 2024. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project. I grew up in a church where a lot of importance was given to Good Friday. There was constantly talking about the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Of course, we also celebrated Easter, but often it seemed almost a note on a margin. And even then, the accent always remained ...
Testimony of Luigi Testa* of his meeting with Pope Francis "all the steps I made in my life brought me here, now". This came to my mind, while I was waiting for the others that the Pope came to the hearing classroom. All the steps I made in my life had brought me there, at that moment. There was Luigi ...
Reflections by Luigi Testa* On Easter of Resurrection so much effort to get here - the journey, the difficulties. So much effort to get here, and find an empty tomb. "It's not here, he is risen." «I will raise myself and go around the city on the streets and squares; I want to seek the love of my soul "(Ct 3,2), but I will not find it here:« Not ...
Reflections sent to us by Marco "Maria was outside, near the sepulcher, and cried" (John 20:11) I too, like Maria, I am close to a sepulcher. But mine is not excavated in the rock. It is made of silences, of words never said, of closed -end closed wardrobes. It is Easter again, and they are here too: with the guise of the party on ...
Reflections of Mary, a Christian mother with a lesbian daughter "Listen, Israel, the commandments of life ... listen to to know prudence." (Baruc 3,9) There are words in the Bible that make noise. Others, however, heal in silence. I listened to this page of the prophet Baruc during the Easter Viglia S gently struck me, but strongly. Because my daughter --...
Meditation by Lorenzo del Guado Giovani proposed in the Via Crucis "I believe in this love" held in the church of San Carlo al Lazzaretto of Milan on Friday 11 April 2025 there is a red thread that unites the creation of the passion of Jesus. In the story of Genesis, God, shaped a body of dust, blows in his nostrils an breath of life, transforming it ...
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