Dear Magdala family, friends, and benefactors, We have already embarked on this new spiritual adventure, Lent. Forty days that recall the Exodus of the People of Israel from slavery to freedom, from oppression to the Promised Land, from not being the People of God to being the Chosen People. Lent has traditionally been a period…
Prayer that does not Cease By Lucero Ross On 15 January, Pope Francis met with the members of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, the Faculty of Biblical Sciences and Archaeology of the Pontifical University “Antonianum” in Rome, who celebrated their formation’ centenary. In Pope Francis’s exhortation to the Franciscan brothers during the audience, he said, “The…
Prayer is a Place of Encounter with God By Pamela Rocha “Prayer is a gift that we freely receive; dialoguing with Him in the Holy Spirit, who prays in us and allows us to address God, calling him Father, Dad, Abba”. – Pope Francis Do you find it difficult to pray? Do you easily get…
The Week of Prayer for #ChristianUnity,2024 By Fr. Eamon Kelly, LC Everyone wants their family to be united avoiding strife and division. Nobody wants their workplace to have big internal disputes. Such division only weakens and often destroys the family or any enterprise whatsoever. Many of our divisions are caused by real issues but they are…
The Women of Magdala By Fr. Cristobal Vilaroig Some five years after Mark Twain, the intrepid traveler Susannah Henrietta Kent would pass through Magdala. Many think Kent was English, while others argue that she came from Ireland. The travelers left the boat on the shore to explore the Wadi Hammam and then returned to Magdala.…
Dear Magdala Family, On behalf of myself and the Magdala team, we wish you a happy New Year! As the year begins and coincides with the “January Slope”– that challenging start to the new year and the unique challenges we take on – it seems essential to once again take up the motto…
Dear Magdala Family, I send you warm greetings and trust the following words to express my best wishes for you to have a Holy and Merry Christmas. To the extent that circumstances allow us, due to the situation of the war that we are experiencing, we await with joy, more than ever, the coming of…
Tom Sawyer’s dad pays a visit to Magdala By Fr. Cristobal Vilaroig “Magdala is not a beautiful place.” In 1867, a group of American tourists visited the Lake of Galilee, including the future author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” Mark Twain. His impressions of Magdala were not what we might call pleasant: “It is…
The inhabitants of el Mejdel and Migdal By Fr. Cristobal Vilaroig We have known several nineteenth-century authors who speak of the miserable village that occupied the place of the once bustling Magdala:: that village which, for Ulrich Seetzen, was a refuge against bandits, and, for the mystic Solomon Malan, a source of inspiration. But who…
Dear Magdala Family and friends, I send you warm greetings from Magdala, where we are undergoing a unique time due to the Israel-Hamas conflict. However, amid the conflict, we have come together as a small family and formed a unique community of charity, prayer, and service. As we shared previously, residents from a Kibbutz near…
