Marian Devotion According to article 4 of our Constitutions, which expresses the charism proper to the Institute, we confess ourselves to be essentially “missionaries and Marian”[1] and manifest that we have a firm resolution of working “in supreme docility to the Holy Spirit and according to the example of the Virgin Mary”[2] in order […]
In 1929, Pope Pius XI wrote a letter to all seminarians, especially to his “Jesuit sons,” asking them to enter a new seminary that had just been founded in Rome to prepare young priests for possible missionary work in Russia. Walter Ciszek, who had entered the Company of Jesus in the United States the year
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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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Rome, July 31st, 2016 18th Sunday in the Ordinary Time Dear Fathers, Brothers, and Friends: Between the 13th of May and the 13th of October in 1917 the six apparitions at Fatima – with their message of repentance, comfort, warning, and singular protection – took place. In May of next year, we will celebrate the
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