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"Chá de Bebe"
So you call the "Party in preparation for the birth of a child"

Here in Brazil but I think also in other parts of the world, use it, just before the birth of a child, a party where several people invited to offer something useful that the baby is born. To prepare the "dowry". Something similar is happening in December in preparation for Christmas: we are all preparing something for the baby Jesus is really happy. Maybe a lot of external things and prepare some inner qualities such as expectation, hope, peace, solidarity .... And the baby Jesus, what does it lead? The name Jesus means "God saves", but perhaps now the word salvation has little meaning for our lives. Christ means "Messiah = anointed one, chosen by God", but perhaps today a person chosen by someone else, even God, there seems to be quite realized. Immanuel means "God with us" but perhaps his company now disturbs us or bores us.
What we bring Jesus? I would like to find these days to announce it to everyone. All I know is that what leads us to be really nice and if all the important people, like the shepherds and the Magi who came to see you in the hut have returned home full of joy.

we can not pray ..

"O God, we can not really ask you to cease the war: in fact we know that you made the world so that man must find the path to peace in himself and his neighbor.
O God, we can not really ask you to cease the hunger: for You have given us abundant resources, enough to feed the world, provided you use them wisely. O God, we can not really ask you to eradicate the injustice: for You have given us eyes to see the good in every creature, provided you use them wisely.
O God, we can not really ask you to dispel the despair, because You have given us the power to transform the slums and to sow hope, provided you use it with saggezza.O God, we can not really ask you to stop the disease : Because You have given us an intelligence capable of finding cures and medicines, provided you use it wisely.
For this, O God, please give us rather than strength, determination and courage to act and not only to pray, and above all to live, not just a hope. "
jew prayer of the theologian Jack Riemer


MISSION NEWS
Don Luca returns to Verona
After nine years in Brazil in mid-January Mainenti Don Luca returns to Verona to make available to the experience of our diocesan church. Thus was the exchange of experiences of faith and life that help us grow. A sincere thanks especially to the experience of priestly fraternity shared over the years in a common mission. Always worth sharing the same mission together for the good priests of the community and also for our well-being.

Less than priests and lay priests
We remain third but has already reached the family of Frank, Damian and Isaac (Fumane) and late January Carolina will also come Almar (Monteforte) and Maria Gobbo (Verona). So the mission will take on a more secular. It will be a challenge for everyone and, I believe, a wonderful opportunity.

There are no prophets!
A bishop here in Brazil, Dom Manuel Edmilson da Cruz, in these days, gave up a prestigious award for his commitment to human rights by the Brazilian parliament as a sign to reflect the fact that parliamentarians have salary grew by 61%. He said that greater justice for all is also a human right.

popular missions
Assembly Parish Annual meeting of 5 December last year resolved to implement by 2012 (after 400 years since the first proclamation of the Gospel in São Luís) and parish missions. The year 2011 will therefore be a year of intense preparation for the event. Our parish continues that journey missionary of the Diocese of São Luís and the Church in Latin America began with the Document of Aparecida.

That Christmas, here is "hot," warm the hearts of all. Greetings!

Hello and thanks for everything you do! Claudio Vallicella, fidei donum priest.
joins Daniel Soardo Greetings Don, Don Luca Mainenti, Don Orazio Bellomo
Francesca Damiano
and Isaac and the Parish of the Holy Trinity in Sao Luis, Brazil.