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On our fidelity to the specific end of our Religious Family

On our fidelity to the specific end of our Religious Family

January 1, 2017 Dear Fathers, Brothers, and Seminarians,  The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in its document Directives on Formation in Religious Institutes upholds that “the personal life of a religious must not become dichotomized between the generic end of religious life and the specific end of the institute; […]

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St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort

The 300th anniversary of the death of St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort

Rome, Italy October 10, 2016 Dear Fathers, Brothers, and Seminarians,  In Article 4 of our Constitutions, which deals with the proper charism of our Institute, we profess to be essentially missionaries and Marian,[1] and it states that we desire to work “in supreme docility to the Holy Spirit and according to the example of the

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Saint Jose Gabriel Brochero

Saint Jose Gabriel Brochero

Rome, ItalySeptember 30th, 2016. Dear Fathers, Brothers, and Seminarians:  This coming 16th of October, the Holy Father will raise the Argentine priest José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero (1840-1914) to the honors of the altar, who was a distinguished promoter and director of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and Saint John Paul II

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