Giving thanks is also part of prayer

Give thanks. Always thanks everything. Focus on the blessings you’ve already received, think about all the good in your life, make a list, because we tend to forget our victories and value our failures too much. “Come to the foot of this altar: there graces will be poured out on all people, great and small,

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Not all that glitters is an Altar!

Last April we celebrated Easter, one of the religious festivals of immense emotion and faith. In May we had the celebrations with many feasts of Our Lady of Fátima. And in June, do we have celebrations? “Ah! If we have!” When the month of June arrives, the feasts of popular saints multiply in the four

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Imagem de Nossa Senhora de Fátima, com cartão Obrigado e mão a segurar decalque de parede com inscrição Faith Always e Amor de Mãe

After a long journey

“Everyone who heard was amazed by what the pastors told them” (Luke 2:18) We remember Pope Francis’s 1 January 2019 homily – the long journey that was 2019 – to kick off this new year we started today, here at Treze. Surprise you: that’s what we are asked today, at the end of Christmas, on

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