The Prayer of St. Francis de Sales:

O love eternal, my soul needs and chooses You eternally!
Ah, come Holy Spirit, and inflame our hearts with Your love!
To love -- or to die!
To die -- and to love!
To die to all other love in order to live in Jesus' love, so that we may not die eternally.
But that we may live in Your eternal love, O SavioUr of our souls, we eternally sing,

"Live, Jesus! Jesus, I love! Live, Jesus, whom I love!
Jesus, I love, Jesus who lives and reigns forever and ever." Amen.

-- from Treatise on the Love of God

The communications media have acquired such importance as to be the principal means of guidance and inspiration for many people in their personal, familial, and social behavior. We are dealing with a complex problem, because the culture itself, prescinding from its content, arises from the very existence of new ways to communicate with hitherto unknown techniques and vocabulary.Ours is an age of global communication in which countless moments of human existence are either spent with, or at least confronted by, the different processes of the mass media. I limit myself to mentioning the formation of personality and conscience, the interpretation and structuring of affective relationships, the coming together of the educative and formative phases, the elaboration and diffusion of cultural phenomena, and the development of social, political and economic life.

The Knights of Columbus are circulating a request to pray a novena for Pope Benedict, beginning on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 11, and concluding on Monday, April 19, the fifth anniversary of the Holy Father

Meeting of the spokespersons of the European Catholic Bishops' Conferences - Slovak Republic (Bratislav-Nitra), 16 to 19 June 2010.

Communication in times of crisis and public opinion building processes will be the focus of this year's meeting of press attachés and spokespersons of the European Catholic Bishops' Conferences in the Slovak Republic (Bratislav/Nitra), which will begin this afternoon and will last until June 19. The meeting, promoted by the Council of European Catholic Bishops' Conferences (CCEE), takes place in the Slovak Republic under invitation of H. Ex. Mgr. Stanislav Zvolenský, Archbishop of Bratislav and President of the Slovak Catholic Bishops' Conference.