Rome, Italy, June 1, 2018 “Men who are authentically free” Constitutions, 200 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians, and Novices, Benedict XVI once said to seminarians in Rome: “At all times, freedom has been humanity’s great dream, since the beginning, but particularly in modern times.” And, although in the 20th century the freedom of human beings was […]
Rome, Italy, December 1, 2017 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger Lk 2: 12 Gospel of the Midnight Mass of the Nativity of the Lord Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians, and Novices, As we approach the beginning of Advent, which is a
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Constitutions, 7 Rome, Italy, November 1, 2017. Solemnity of All Saints Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians, and Novices, Pope John XXII, in a very renowned phrase, affirmed “Give me a religious who has been faithful to the rule for his whole life and I will canonize him without any further examination.” This sentence, both brief and
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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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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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Rome, Italy August 1, 2017 Dear Priests, Seminarians, Brothers, and Novices, The miracle of the Transfiguration of our Lord which celebration we are approaching “reminds us of the specific end of our small Religious Family: to evangelize the culture – to transfigure it into Christ.” However, it is this mystery—in addition to that of the
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Rome, Italy, July 1, 2017 Dear Priests, Seminarians, Brothers, and Novices, “One cannot be an apostle without being creative; and without being creative, one cannot be a missionary.” For us, who confess to have an “essential call to be missionaries,” one of the non-negotiable elements of the charism of our Institute is precisely this apostolic
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San Luis, Argentina, May 1, 2017 Dear Fathers, Seminarians, and Novices, The apparitions of the Mother of God in Fatima, Portugal between the months of May and October of 1917 were without a doubt “the greatest religious event of the first half of the twentieth century, an explosion, an overwhelming eruption of the supernatural in
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Constitutions, 31 Rome, Italy, April 1, 2017. Dear Priests, Brothers, and Seminarians, Within a few weeks, we will be celebrating the joy of the Paschal Mystery, which is for us “an inexhaustible source of spirituality,”[1] and “the manifestation par excellence of the love of God for men,”[2] for, He loved them to the end.[3] How
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February 1, 2017 Dear Fathers, Brothers, and Seminarians: The feast of the Presentation of our Lord in the temple, celebrated on February 2, was instituted by St. John Paul II as the day in which the entire Church gives thanks to God for consecrated life, recognizing in it “a precious and necessary gift for the
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