Camillian Religious – Daughters of St. Camillus – Sister Ministers of the Sick of St. Camillus (Camillian Sisters) 14 July 2015 Liturgical Feast Day of St. Camillus de Lellis 401 years after his death   TO OUR ELDERLY AND SICK

His history can be read as an authentic journey of transfiguration. Perhaps one can also identify its determining stages, that is to say those moments when he emerges transformed again and again and appears to be ‘another’ compared to what

‘And service to the sick poor even if plague-stricken, in their corporeal and spiritual needs, day and night, according to how he is commanded’ It was through a good group dynamic that the terminology of service entered the history of

Ve‘He should know that he has to be dead to all the things of this world, that is to say relatives, friends, possessions and himself’. ‘He should know that he has to be dead to himself, if he has so

Is, therefore, the Lord at the origin of every vocation? Is this his first move? Is it he who took in his hands the threads of our lives and led us through the mysterious pathways of a call, whose necessary

Institutional Charter of the Order approved unanimously by the Second General Chapter (1599) A decision of the general session of 19 June. This contains the basic elements of the charism of the Institute formulated by Camillus in the memorial that

Saturday, 16 May 2015 The question was asked by Fr Gaetano Greco of the Tertiary Capuchins  of Our Lady of  Sorrows, chaplain of the ‘Casal del Marmo’ juvenile detention centre: “Consecrated life is a gift of God to the Church,

Healing, even when it takes place, is never an end in itself; it is opening, the pointing to a new road which now opens up before us. This is because thanksgiving, praise or – even – following Christ are indicative

And yet it is not only a fact of experience that man, when he is in situations of illness and of precariousness, when he is surprised by a sudden threat, and by fear, in general turns spontaneously to some form

Saturday, 16 May 2015 The question was asked by Iwona Langa, a woman consecrated to the ‘Ordo virginum’ [Order of Virgins], from the Ain Karim family home: “Marriage and Christian virginity are two ways of fulfilling the vocation of love.

Looking forward to the feast day of St. Camillus (14 July), Fr. Leocir Pessini, the Superior General of the Order of Camillians, has addressed a pastoral letter to all the members of the Institute, and in particular to our elderly

Taken from L’UMANO SOFFRIRE Etymology connects prayer to precariousness. Illness, which makes man feel the precariousness of his existence, dominated by forces which bear down upon him and his condition of being a threatened body, is a situation where at