The “Absolutely” and “Totally” “Essentials” Cf. Constitutions, 17, 95, 174 and 210; Directory of Spirituality, 37 Upon reading our proper law, especially the Constitutions and Directory of Spirituality, which are our principal documents, you notice that the term essential is used five times.* On two of these occasions, our proper law adds the adverbs “absolutely”[1] […]
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Our Badge of Honor: to Belong to the Church Cf. Directory of Spirituality, 227 In one of its first paragraphs, our Constitutions declare that “We want to always be rooted in Jesus Christ, […], for no one can lay any other foundation[1] than Christ, the Rock[2]. We want to love and serve Jesus Christ –
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The Sun and the Eagle Saint Thomas Aquinas’ thought in Saint John of the Cross Nowadays we are invaded by false mystics, who even though apparently study so much, make many mistakes.[1] They are those who know not “this way, (the Word) by which they might descend to Him from themselves …; nor that
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“The unconditionals of God”[1] Formula for the monthly renewal of vows “The soul that has attachment to anything…, will not attain to the liberty of divine union,”[2] wrote Saint John of the Cross. And what he wrote, he practiced, and he tried hard to instill it in souls. Because this is the vocation of
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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
