Matthew Stabe

The time is right to evaluate ourselves, to learn, to grow and to allow ourselves to be transformed, both as individuals and as communities. This is a privileged moment to prepare ourselves for “the day of the Lord”. #Peace vatican.va/content/francesco…

To protect the human dignity of the weakest by affirming their rights contributes to the growth of human fraternity and safeguards the image of God imprinted in each person. #StandUp4HumanRights #HumanRightsDay

Let us #PrayTogether that volunteer non-profit and human development organizations may find people willing to commit themselves to the common good and ceaselessly seek out new paths of international cooperation. #PrayerIntention #ClickToPray

God conceals himself in the most ordinary situations of our lives. He does not come in extraordinary events, but in everyday things: our daily work, a chance encounter, someone in need... That's where the Lord is, who calls to us and inspires our actions. #Advent

We are living a famine of peace in our time. Let’s think of how many places in the world are scourged by war, in particular of war-torn Ukraine. Let us roll up our sleeves and continue to pray for #peace!

Let us not be content, like the people in the #GospelOfTheDay (Lk 21:5-19), to admire the beautiful stones of the temple, while failing to recognize God’s true temple, the human person, especially the poor, in whose face, in whose wounds, we encounter Jesus. #WorldDayOfThePoor

#Holiness is not a process of struggles and renunciations. It is above all the experience of being loved by God, of freely receiving his love, his mercy.

In the garden of humanity, we are playing with fire, missiles and bombs, with weapons that bring sorrow and death, covering our common home with ashes and hatred. I extend my heartfelt appeal to everyone that the war in #Ukraine be ended and that serious #peace negotiations begin

Today, the Lord reminds us that death comes to make truth of life. The Gospel explains how to live out the wait: we go to meet God by loving, because He is love.

“Not that we loved God but that he loved us” (1 Jn 4:10). Let us never forget this. Our abilities and our merits are not central to faith, but rather the unconditional, free and unmerited love of God.

Tomorrow, Tuesday 25 October, I will go to the Colosseum to pray for peace in Ukraine and in the world, together with representatives of the Christian Churches and Communities and world religions, gathered in Rome for the “Cry of Peace” meeting. #PrayTogether

Our communities are also called to go out to the various types of “boundaries” there might be, to offer hope to those stationed on the existential peripheries, who have not yet experienced, or have lost, the strength and the light that comes with meeting Christ #OctoberMissionary

May we never grow weary of bearing witness to the newness of Jesus, to the newness that is Jesus! Faith is not a lovely exhibit of artefacts from the past, but an ever-present event, an encounter with Christ that takes place in the here and now of our lives!

I carry within me the sorrow of the Ukrainian people and present them in prayer to the Lord through the intercession of the Holy Mother of God. May the Spirit transform the hearts of those who hold the outcome of the war in their hands, that the hurricane of violence might cease.

I call on all people of goodwill to mobilize for the abolition of the death penalty throughout the world. Society can effectively repress crime without definitively depriving the offenders of the possibility of redeeming themselves. #EndDeathPenalty

#Prayer and self-knowledge enable us to grow in freedom.