Traces June 2025

"Peace be with you all"
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Jubilee of Movements. Prosperi's message

The words of the President of the Fraternity of CL on the eve of the pilgrimage to Rome for the Jubilee of Movements, Associations and New Communities (June 7-8, 2025)

Dear friends, On the day of his election, Pope Leo XIV encouraged us to see ourselves as “together with God and with one another” (May 8, 2025). With his unconditional love, Christ gives to us what is impossible to the world, marked by increasingly dee...

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For Love of Jesus

“The community is the dimension and condition necessary for the human seed to bear fruit”

After years of not attending the Spiritual Exercises, this spring I made the decision to go. It was the first year that my husband and I both decided to attend separately so that one of us could be home with the kids while the other went. And so he gather...

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Completing Ourselves and Belonging

Does what we do and who we are make a difference? Meditations on the Upper Midwest Spiritual Exercises

The Upper Midwest Spiritual Exercises were just held in early May in New Ulm, Minnesota. In the Saturday sessions we heard about how in the law of existence in charity we find our authentic selves and the importance of unity and belonging. We were given t...

Image: CarloAcutisFilm.com
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Roadmap to Reality

A developmental neuroscientist participates in a documentary on Carlo Acutis and the digital revolution

I recently had the great gift of contributing to a documentary on the life of soon-to-be Saint Carlo Acutis called Roadmap to Reality. My participation came about unexpectedly. Earlier this year, I published an article in Church Life Journal reflecting...

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“He has always belonged to Christ and never stopped bearing witness to this”

Fr. Marcos Ballena Renteira, former rector of the seminary in Chiclayo, talks about his relationship with Robert Francis Prevost, his friend who became pope, and of his friendship with the local CL community

In 2014, Fr. Marcos Ballena Renteria was bursar and formator at the major seminary in Chiclayo, Peru, where he also accompanied the small CL community. He had met the movement in 1988 as a student, through Fr. Francesco Ricci and Andrea Aziani. “I was...