Rome, Italy, May 1st, 2019 Mary, Mother and Teacher of Our Priesthood Pastores dabo vobis, 82 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians, and Novices, I have once more the pleasure of addressing all of you through this circular letter, just a few days from celebrating our Queen and Mother, the Most Blessed Virgin of Luján. This year, […]
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Pumpenai, Lithuania, April 1st, 2019 For freedom Christ set us free Gal 5: 1 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians, and Novices: In a couple of weeks, we will solemnly celebrate Holy Week, appropriately called the Great Week of all Christendom. During this week we will contemplate Jesus Christ, Crucified and Risen, “who gave himself for us
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Rome, December 1st, 2018. “Abandoned to Providence” Constitutions, 231 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians and Novices: The mystery of Christmas that we are about to celebrate brings us face to face with God’s providential mystery. This Child who seeks a place to be born in and is rejected because there was no room for Him in
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San José, USA, September 1, 2018. “This doctrine of the Cross must be what we preach” Directory of Spirituality, 140 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians, and Novices, “The crucified Son of God is the historic event upon which every attempt of the mind to construct an adequate explanation of the meaning of existence upon merely human
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Rome, Italy, August 1, 2018. “To love souls to the point of sacrificing themselves with heroism and without reserve” Constitutions, 182 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians, and Novices, Just a few days away from “solemnly” celebrating the Transfiguration of the Lord, I wanted to send you this letter today with the encouragement that it might serve
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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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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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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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Rome, Italy November 27, 2016 “Do not be afraid. Look, I bring you news of great joy… Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.” (Lc 2: 10-11) Dear Priests, Brothers, and Seminarians, With great joy and deep affection, I greet all of you in
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