This year 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the approval, by the 44th General Chapter of the Order, of the institutional document "The Laity in the Pious Schools".  It is a "round" date, which can suggest a grateful look at the path traveled over the years and that...

It is quite clear that our 48th General Chapter offers all the Pious Schools many areas of reflection and is called to provoke - if we allow it - new dynamisms of life and mission. I believe that one of the aspects on which we are called to fix our attention is the...

This is the formulation chosen by our General Chapter to express the first of the Keys of Life of the Order, framed in the so-called nucleus that constitutes the "centrality of Jesus Christ in our life and mission".  Two options are proposed to us for the proper...

Thus begins the third chapter of our Constitutions, dedicated to Piarist community life. And so begins the second "key of life" of our 48th General Chapter, which proposes "to revitalize our community life and to take special care of the central aspects emphasized by...

A few days before leaving for Mexico to participate in the General Chapter, I traveled from Rome to Genoa to accompany a young Italian, Elia Guerra, on his priestly ordination. The journey from Rome to Genoa by train takes five hours, which allows you to devote time...

Over the next few months, we will be receiving, piece by piece, various information and materials relating to the General Chapter of the Order, recently held in Mexico. I would like to dedicate this fraternal letter to share with all of you some first impressions,...

After a General Chapter, it is usually convenient to write a letter exhorting the brothers to receive and welcome the documents, proposals and options of the Chapter. I will do so in a next opportunity, no doubt. But on this occasion, I think it is better to write a...

I write this fraternal letter shortly before leaving for Mexico, to participate in the 48th General Chapter of our Order. We have been waiting for some time for this Chapter, which had to be postponed for several months because of the health situation we are...

Throughout the next year 2022 we will be living a new Piarist Vocational Year. It has been convened by the General Congregation in the framework of the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the constitution of the Pious Schools as a religious Order of solemn vows...

On the numerous occasions in which throughout these years I have been able to meet so many people who love Calasanz and collaborate with the Pious Schools, I have tended to speak to them using a passage from the Gospel of St. Matthew (Mt 11: 42) that is particularly...

Memory and Prophecy are two complementary dimensions of the entire historical experience of Consecrated Life in the Church. It is likely that only if we combine them well can we extract from both the deep wealth that they contain. We look at our history to strengthen...

After a year and a half, we are still living in the midst of a pandemic that we are not being able to control and that we still do not know when and how it will end. It is undoubtedly an exceptional experience for all mankind and, therefore, for Consecrated Life and...