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Reflection · Begijnhofkapel · March 2025
Through the Year with the Saints: John Augustus Tolton
This time my attention was drawn to Augustus Tolton. A Black American who, born enslaved, became the first Black priest in America. And thereby played a pioneering role. And who knows, may one day become a saint in the…
Erica Eitjes
Reflection · Begijnhofkapel · March 2025
The Catholic Church and slavery: the Bible
When slavery is spoken of today, it is usually about that of the sixteenth century and later, when Europeans travelled all over the world and kept and traded in slaves on a large scale. Terrible amounts of money were…
José Huijberts
Reflection · Begijnhofkapel · March 2025
Easter and Hope
Pope Francis begins his book Hope with the description of migrants departing by steamship from Italy to Argentina. His own parents did the same on 1 February 1929. The ship, which departed a good while before them and…
Pieter van Wijlick sss
Reflection · Begijnhofkapel · March 2025
All Christians celebrate Easter together this year
This year all Christian communities everywhere in the world celebrate Easter on the same day, on 20 April. This happens only once every so many years. Yet it is the wish of many Christians, as a further sign of our…
Johan Smit

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