“萬民都要藉著祂的光行走”（默21，24） 在此以傳教為主題的主日，我首先勸勉你們，主教和司鐸兄弟們，以及你們全體天主子民兄弟姐妹們，在每一個人的自身內重新振奮基督的傳教派遣，踏著外邦人的宗徒聖保祿的足跡“使萬民成為門徒”（瑪28，19）。 “萬民都要藉著祂的光行走”（默21，24）。事實上，教會的使命是用福音的光明照耀全體子民邁向天主的歷史進程，使他們在天主內完全實現、滿全。我們應...[more]
Okay, it wasn’t forty days and forty nights, but it felt like it at times. And unlike Noah, nobody told us to build an ark.
In the evening of February 26th, 1679 there was a happy couple in Rennes. The prayers of Francis-Claude Poullart des Places, lawyer in the Parliament of Brittany, and Joane Le Meneust, his wife, who had feared she would remain...[more]
Amongst the many foundations of major religious Congregations in the 17 th and 18 th centuries, the birth of the Spiritans was rather inconspicuous. They were not conceived as a great new project in the making; their founder and...[more]
They said he should have gone to the Sorbonne, where his exceptional academic abilities would have enabled him to get an honours degree in theology. Coupled with his public speaking gifts, this would assure Claude Poullart des...[more]
The Spirituality...
It would be a pity if the present Spiritan Year was seen as something important and of benefit only to the members of the Congregation of Claude Poullart des Places founded 300 years ago in Paris, France....[more]
A model for today...
Young people (always in search of stars to follow and role models to imitate) have a need to hear something about past and present day real heroes and heroines to offset all the rave reviews of the latest...[more]
The foundation...When Claude des Places began his studies for the priesthood at the Jesuit College in Paris in October 1701, probably the last thing on his mind was that two years later he would open a new seminary. However, as...[more]
The early years...
Hopefully during the present tercentennial celebrations in honour of Claude des Places, it will be remembered that great men and great enterprises never come into the world fully developed like Athena from...[more]
As many of you may remember, more than one year ago, we decided to start two new groups of sponsored children in the South of Vietnam. Father Trinh paid the first visit to them last year. This summer, at the end of August, the...
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