In the last edition reference was made to the importance of quality of life as the goal of care in a hospice. Nothing is left to chance to offer to those in a hospice care that is directed towards appreciating

When on 12 June 1964 the young Camillian student Nicola D’Onofrio closed his eyes to this earth to return to the ‘House of the Father’, cut down at the age of only twenty-one by an illness that does not forgive,

Albeit with a heavy heart, also for Fr. Franceso Avi, a Camillian religious and missionary medical doctor, the hour to leave had arrived. Fr. Avi came to this painful decision because of his advanced age and because of health problems.

In “Servo di Dio Padre Rocco Ferroni. Un umile ed esemplare figlio di San Camillo” “Let’s be saints”. This is a phrase that we encounter every now and then on the lips of Father Rocco and they tell us a

By Domenico Casera The Blessed Enrico does not belong to past centuries when a holiness of life inside a community could be said to have been easier. He was a child of our time and our culture; he lived with

In the New Testament many names and various titles are given to Christ. Amongst these there is that of ‘physician’, not because he had attended a specific school of medicine but because of his constant interest in sick people and

Camillia religious were involved for the whole of the year in meetings for priests and people engaged in providing pastoral care. Our religious Fr. Rosario Messina, for the clergy, and Fr. Antonio Marzano, Fr. Adriano Moro and Brother Carlo Mangione

San Giovanni Rotondo-Valle dell’Inferno 1 May 2017 By Fr. Alfredo M. Tortorella MI The first of May, as is well known, is a public holiday that commands a great deal of attention. The spring with its fine weather, initiatives promoted

On 19 April 2017, in the afternoon, at the Centro Santa Fè of San Paolo (Brazil), forty-eight participants, made up of Camillian religious and their lay co-workers, came together for the third international symposium of Camillian parish priests and ‘rectors’.

April 21 (Friday): The meeting resumes in the morning with another round of testimonies of the parish ministry in the various provinces and delegations of the Order. The day is devoted to the reflection around the identity of the Camillian

Taken from Missione Salute Year XXIX – n. 3 May/June 2016 By Fr. Luciano Sandrin Frailty accompanies our lives. And it has a thousand ways of making itself felt. It touches our bodies, our minds, our relationships and our spirits.

 A hospice seeks to provide to a patient and his or her family unit those conditions that will enable him to her to live even when the illness seems to have taken control of the situation and when it appears