Reflecting on our Piarist Ministry (Part 2)
I continue to share with you all some reflections inspired by the third chapter of our Rules dedicated to our ministry. I do not conceal that my aim is that we read this chapter, which is often unknown and little studied, but which contains an extraordinary richness...
Reflecting on our Piarist Ministry (1st part)
”The reason for our Order’s existence is derived from its office of evangelization entrusted to it by the Church.”[1] Thus begins the third chapter of our Rules, which is entirely devoted to our Piarist ministry. The text of this chapter differs from the rest of the...
Irreplaceable?
There are many Gospel texts to help us reflect on our ministry. Each of them offers us a different perspective, and this helps us to understand the richness of the mission we have received as an inheritance. The central text is undoubtedly the one in which Christ...
What dwells in the heart of young Glicerio?
This is the question Calasanz asks himself when he meets the young Glicerio Landriani, who is knocking on the doors of the nascent Pius Schools to consecrate his life as a Piarist. It is a deep, precise question. It is the question that we must all always ask...
