Archbishop Benedito Roberto, C.S.Sp., left for the Father’s House
Archbishop Benedito Roberto, C.S.Sp., left for the Father’s House. We have received the sad news that the Archbishop of Malanje, Angola, Mgr. Benedito Roberto,…
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Archbishop Benedito Roberto, C.S.Sp., left for the Father’s House. We have received the sad news that the Archbishop of Malanje, Angola, Mgr. Benedito Roberto,…
Spiritans on the Way to being Raised to the Altars Dear confrères and lay members of the Spiritan family! Fraternal greetings from the general house…
NEW DATES FOR THE XXI GENERAL CHAPTER Dear Confreres and Lay Spiritan Associates, Greetings from the generalate in Rome. I hope and pray that you,…
NEW BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE OF CAXITO – ANGOLA BISHOP MAURÍCIO AGOSTINHO CAMUTO On 15 June 2020, Pope Francis appointed, Fr. Maurício Agostinho Camuto, CSSp,…
PENTECOST VIGIL 2020 Opening song In the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen Alleluia. Christ is risen. R.…
Come, Holy Spirit, and Renew the Face of the Earth (cf. Ps 104, 30) In the midst of winter, I discovered within me an invincible…
POSTPONEMENT OF GENERAL CHAPTER Dear Confreres and Lay Spiritan Associates, At our meeting this morning, 15th April 2020, the General Council decided to postpone…
Dear Confreres and Lay Spiritan Associates, In a short few weeks our lives have been changed in ways that we could never have imagined. What…
The current coronavirus pandemic has given rise to considerable uncertainty in regard to the feasibility of different events over the coming weeks and months. At…
San Francisco, Calif., Jan 21, 2021 / 01:20 pm (CNA).- The Archbishop of San Francisco on Thursday responded to the Speaker of the House accusing pro-life Trump voters of being sellouts. In a Jan. 18 podcast with former senator and […]
Rome Newsroom, Jan 21, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- As a self-proclaimed atheist in his early 20s, Private Dillon Beatson said that the only time he spoke of religion was with ridicule. But when his helicopter crashed during a training mission in the […]
Washington D.C., Jan 21, 2021 / 11:30 am (CNA).- The Biden administration will repeal the Mexico City Policy in the “coming days,” White House advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci told board members of the World Health Organization (WHO) on […]
Gabon 1850 - Libermann writes to Bessieux that he is not against the creation of a new congregation to provide personnel for Gabon but he feels the time is not yet opportune. | Gabon
Canada 1905 - Alonzo Wright, 1,631 acres of forest and arable land on the river Gatineau close to Ottawa. It is made possible by a gift from Mme Jules Lebaudy, a rich benefactress, to establish an institute to receive young French people coming to Canada. It is also as a con-sequence of the religious persecution in France which forces the closure of 12 Spiritan houses. | Canada
Cabo Verde 1947 - Approval by the Generalate of the contract between the District and the Diocese. | Cape Verde
Senegal 1957 - Prefecture of Kaolack established and confided to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. | Senegal
"The importance of a good director is very great; but the firmness and perseverance of our will in the service of God, and the constant desire to live for him alone are infinitely more important and neces-sary. Our Lord never said in the Gospel that any one who wants to be perfect must take a spiritual director! But he did say that such a person must deny himself, take up his cross and follow him. We need a director like an army needs a general - but an army without a gen-eral can do a lot more than a general without an army!"(Libermann: Spiritual Letters 1 pp246-247. 1836).