Hope sustains us
Dear brothers and sisters, Allow me to begin this Salutatio by sharing a memory that still resonates strongly in the heart. We have recently lived the Jubilee of Young People in Rome, and I believe many of us still feel the emotion of those days: the Eternal City...
Inspired
Dear brothers, With deep respect and a grateful heart, I address you for the first time as General Father of our beloved Order. I do so from Bamè, in Benin (close to the presence of the Province of the Piarist Fathers of West Africa), where we are living the third...
Our Holy Father
Dear Brothers, This is the last Salutatio that I am writing as Father General of the Order, and I have thought of dedicating it, as it could not be otherwise, to Our Holy Father, St. Joseph Calasanz. For sixteen years I have had the undeserved honor – and challenge –...
To expand and to propagate
These are the verbs Calasanz uses when he speaks about the building of the Pious Schools. He refers to them in the conclusion of the Memorandum to Cardinal Tonti[1]. It is clear that in his mentality, the work of building the Pious Schools with the treasure he has...
