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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Constitutions, 31 Rome, Italy, April 1, 2017. Dear Priests, Brothers, and Seminarians, Within a few weeks, we will be celebrating the joy of the Paschal Mystery, which is for us “an inexhaustible source of spirituality,”[1] and “the manifestation par excellence of the love of God for men,”[2] for, He loved them to the end.[3] How
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March 1, 2017 Dear Fathers, Brothers, and Seminarians, As we approach the sacrosanct mystery of the Incarnation of the Word in the most pure womb of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, I want to greet you all yet again with great affection. Contemplating deeply the marvelous event in which our spirituality finds its roots, that
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February 1, 2017 Dear Fathers, Brothers, and Seminarians: The feast of the Presentation of our Lord in the temple, celebrated on February 2, was instituted by St. John Paul II as the day in which the entire Church gives thanks to God for consecrated life, recognizing in it “a precious and necessary gift for the
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