Conversation in the Spirit

Conversation in the Spirit

I would like to dedicate this month’s Salutatio to one of the best contributions that the synodal dynamic we are experiencing offers us. I speak of the “conversation in the Spirit” We can consider it a simple method of communal discernment, and this...
Vocational consistency

Vocational consistency

I continue to reflect on the visit I pay to the young-adult religious of our Order who are in the first six years of their adult Piarist life and are having their first experience of mission, of community life outside a house of formation, of taking on responsibility,...
A Fraternity on the Way

A Fraternity on the Way

In the middle of this year 2024, an important meeting of the General Piarist Fraternity took place in Rome, attended by representatives of all the Fraternities, the Major Superiors of the Provinces where there is a Fraternity and the General Congregation. I would like...
The Calasanzian Family

The Calasanzian Family

In this year 2024, on the eve of the Jubilee of Hope, we are celebrating a very special anniversary that I do not want to let go unnoticed: the 75th anniversary of the official constitution of the Calasanzian Family. I dedicate this fraternal letter to remembering and...
A synodal Church on mission

A synodal Church on mission

When you receive this fraternal letter, we will be at the gates of the second assembly of the synodal process promoted by Pope Francis under the motto “For a synodal Church: communion, participation, mission”. I am writing it with the intention of...
To Love The Venerable Poverty

To Love The Venerable Poverty

During my visit to the entire Order, which focuses primarily on initial formation and the care of religious in their first years as adult Piarist, I notice a great interest among the brothers in all that the challenge of living the vow of poverty means and in the fact...