September 2017

“The Word of God […] is precisely our Institute’s true strength”

“The Word of God […] is precisely our Institute’s true strength”

/ Circular Letters

Directory of Spirituality, 238 DirecMemorial of Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church Rome, Italy September 30, 2017 Dear Priests, Brothers, Seminarians, and Novices,  Today we celebrate the memory of the august doctor of the Church, St. Jerome, one whose doctrine richly nourishes our proper law and gives shape to various specific aspects of […]

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apostolate

“Our ‘particular style of sanctification and of apostolate”

/ Circular Letters

Directory of Consecrated Life, 2 Rome, Italy, September 1, 2017 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians, and Novices,  The Sacred Congregation for Religious and for Secular Institutes (current CIVCSVA), in its document “Essential Elements of the Church’s Teaching on Religious Life,” teaches that “religious consecration is lived within a given institute according to constitutions which the Church,

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