“Christian hope res-ponds to the challenges to which all humanity is exposed today by dwelling in the garden where the Crucified One was laid as a seed, to rise again and bear much fruit… Paradise is not lost, but found again… In this way, the Death and Resu-rrection of Jesus are the foundation of a spirituality of integral ecology, outside of which the words of faith have no hold on reality and the words of science remain outside the heart… For this reason we speak of an ecological conversion, which Christ-ians cannot separate from the reversal of course that Jesus asks of them.”

A Family Where Faith Inspired Six Sisters to Religious Life
In the mist-covered hills of Venappara in Kerala, the Kallidukkil family became a remarkable witness to faith and vocation. Thomas and Thresiamma Kallidukkil raised their


