Rome, August 1, 2019 Being in the world without being of the world Directory of Spirituality, 46 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians and Novices: On the 6th of August we will commemorate with great joy and solemnity the specific end of our very small Religious Family, the evangelization of the culture, that is, to transfigure it […]
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Rome, July 1st, 2019 The Son of God was revealed (became incarnate) to destroy the works of the devil Directory of Spirituality, 32 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians, and Novices, “We must restore entirely all things in Christ, for he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet, and thus take
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Rome, June 1, 2019 United in the Mission Directory of Fraternal Life, 25 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians, and Novices, During the month that the Church dedicates to contemplating and honoring the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, which in the Last Supper proclaimed us his friends – after having first told us to love one another
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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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San Luis, Argentina, March 1st, 2019 “God placed him at the head of his family” Redemptoris Custos, 8 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians and Novices, As you know, on the 19th of this month we will celebrate the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, guardian of God the Father’s most precious treasures: the Incarnate Word and His Most
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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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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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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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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