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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Rome, Italy, May 1st, 2019 Mary, Mother and Teacher of Our Priesthood Pastores dabo vobis, 82 Dear Fathers, Brothers, Seminarians, and Novices, I have once more the pleasure of addressing all of you through this circular letter, just a few days from celebrating our Queen and Mother, the Most Blessed Virgin of Luján. This year,
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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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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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