Fraternity and mission

«Fraternity and mission» is the magazine of the St. Charles Fraternity. Since 1995, it has collected witnesses and meditations from our missionaries.

  • Meditations

The Paths of Justice

A meditation on almsgiving, prayer, and fasting, ways to prepare for Easter

  • Massimo Camisasca
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  • Testimonies

He who does not give God gives too

An episode, apparently unimportant, reveals one of the deepest needs of the heart: the knowledge of being loved. A story from the United States.

  • Tommaso Badiani
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Way of the Cross in the City

On Saturday, March 18, the small community of Communion and Liberation in Taiwan made a Way of the Cross, departing from the parish of St. Paul in Xinzhuang and passing through the nearby park. It was a moment of prayer and of identification with the Passion of Christ. At the end, there was the presentation of […]

  • Taipei
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The Promise of the Knights

The kids from our parishes in Rome met at the Abbey of Casamari, near Frosinone, to make the “promise”, a step forward in the faith lived in friendship and communion with their friends and educators. The day was filled with songs, games, a visit to the abbey, and moments of prayer.

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Leave Behind the Clutter

Lent, forty days of preparation for Holy Week: a journey to enter into the gaze of Christ

  • Donato Contuzzi
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The fundamental questions of kids

Only Jesus’ proposal to young people, through education and life lived together, can respond to their deepest questions.

  • Michele Benetti
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36 Years in Africa

The witness of Fr. Valerio, who after 36 years is leaving his beloved mission in Africa to return to Italy

  • Valerio Valeri
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Determined by Grace

All that we are is given to us by the Grace of Christ: A witness by Fr. Giampiero Caruso, missionary in Russia.

  • Giampiero Caruso
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Becoming saints together

Three days spent together with JPII Families, in the Rocky Mountains, with the desire to grow in the path to holiness

  • Teresa Zampogna
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Having Another in your Gaze

Meetings with families to discuss the themes of education, communication between spouses, the use of technology: a witness from Taipei.

  • Antonio Acevedo
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  • Meditations

When Man Poses Resistance

God’s action in history is mysterious and sometimes passes through the limits and sins of His people: a meditation by Paolo Sottopietra

  • Paolo Sottopietra
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