Rome, Italy, November 1st, 2018. Solemnity of All Saints “Charity is indispensable for the evangelization of the culture” Constitutions, 174 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians and Novices: In accordance with our charism to make “Jesus Christ … the Lord of all that is truly human,” our apostolate must be to devote ourselves “to preaching the Word […]
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
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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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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