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Sanyasa Institute Initiates Preparatory Course for Perpetual Profession in Forge Key

Bengaluru, India. On January 6, 2025, the Institute of Consecrated Life - Sanyasa commenced its three-month Intensive Preparatory Course for Perpetual Profession (IPPP), a program designed to deepen the spiritual and vocational commitment of consecrated individuals. A...

30th Anniversary of the Claretian Lay Movement in Congo

Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo. On January 5, 2025, the Parish of Saint Ignatius/Massamba in the Diocese of Kikwit was alive with joy as the Claretian Lay Movement celebrated its 30th anniversary of approval (1995–2025). The event, coinciding with the Epiphany...

Reflection and Action at the Forum on Consecrated Life

Madrid, Spain. On January 11, the Claretian Missionaries of the Province of Santiago held a forum at the Sede Sapientae venue of the Spanish Episcopal Conference. This gathering brought together consecrated persons, laypeople, and ecclesial leaders to address the...

New Congregational Guidelines on Solidarity and Mission

Rome, Italy. About twelve years ago, a meeting of missionaries from all continents proposed that the Congregation promote and structure its commitment to proclaiming the Gospel, justice, peace, care for Creation, and transforming the world according to God's plan...

13 August

“Let us give thanks to God: already the Lord and his Blessed Mother have very kindly accepted the first fruits of the...

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12 August

On reaching the Gulf of Damas, (travelling to Cuba) I began conducting a mission on deck. Everyone on board attended...

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11 August

“…my honourable Prelate D. Luciano Casadevall called me aside and gave me the letter of your Excellency and the...

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10 August

“When they came to get my regular clothing they also took the Bible I had brought. I asked for it and was told, “Very...

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9 August

“Quite content, I undertook the journey to Barcelona.... Shortly before my arrival at Barcelona, a hurricane came up,...

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8 August

“I also had good parents who cooperated with my teacher in moulding my understanding in truth and nurturing my heart...

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7 August

Mary “is a full moon for the sinners [those]; who she shines on in the night of sin, so that they do not fall into...

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6 August

“Oh Virgin and Mother of God, I offer myself as your son, and in the honour and glory of your purity I consecrate to...

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5 August

“The world was converted by the preaching of the crucified Jesus and by the frequent reception of Holy Communion. The...

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4 August

If you saw your father being beaten and stabbed, wouldn’t you run to defend him? Wouldn't it be a crime for you to...

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3 August

I surrender all as a son and priest of Mary. She will be my Mother, Teacher and Director and everything I do and...

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2 August

“The Heart of Mary was not only a living member of Jesus Christ by faith and charity, but also the origin and source...

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1 August

“A farm without cultivation produces nothing either for the owner or farmer. Religion without worship serves nothing,...

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31 July

[In the Jesuit novitiate] “I had something to learn from everyone, and in truth I learned it, with the help of God's...

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30 July

“In the province of Tarragona I was loved by nearly all the people, but there were a few who wished me dead. The...

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29 July

“At the beginning of my stay in Vic I was undergoing an experience not unlike what goes on in a blacksmith's shop. The...

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28 July

"The most productive means I have used has been adult instruction. It has helped me rescue adults from an ignorance...

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27 July

“The Lord has freed me from death. In this square there were five blockades, one in each entrance to a street....... I...

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26 July

Seeing the great lack of evangelical and apostolic preachers in our Spanish territories, the people’s great desire to...

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25 July

“The ministry of the Word--at once the most exalted and invincible of all ministries because it has overcome the world...

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