The Franciscan family does not have many hierarchical ranks. It is made up of sisters and brothers. Poverty, however, receives a special appellation – it is Our Lady. It is not only a sister like the moon or water. To

Motion 22 of the fifty-fifth Generai Chapter (Ariccia 2007) reads as follows: ‘The General Chapter should draw up guidelines for the Order in order to achieve more effective Camillian assistance’. Following this mandate of the General Chapter, the General Councillor

NEWSLETTER 26  Luglio 2016 CONSECRATED LIFE: Love for Poverty, Need for Management and the “Temptation of Power”   Angel Fernandez Artime, sdb LOVE FOR POVERTY, a witness to the newness of Christ It was on the occasion of the celebration

Taken from La civiltà cattolica, ‘Nicola d’Onofrio. Un religioso studente di oggi’, 17 March 2001, 152, 3618 Some years ago, Divo Barsotti observed that in every social condition – priests and religious, the married and the celibate, nuns and housewives

Today, 21 July, the Church commemorates the birth of St. Philip Neri. For this event we offer a text taken from the book San Camillo e i suoi amici – Arte e Ordini religiosi tra Rinascimento e Barocco  (‘St. Camillus and

In La penitente del Vangelo S. Maria Maddalena, di p. Giovanni Sandigliano, M.I. The Divine Saviour promised that the name of Mary Magdalene would be venerated wherever the Gospel was preached. The words of Jesus have been completely fulfilled. The

The goodness of Jesus, the sweetness with which he treated her, must have struck the soul of Mary Magdalene who was so sensitive and thoughtful! She could never forget that majestic and tender face, that very pure and penetrating eye,