In occasione dell’evento nazionale dedicato alla festa degli archivi, “Archivissima 2023”, il 9 giugno nella Biblioteca Generale dell’Ordine dei Carmelitani sono stati presentati alcuni esempi di diari di viaggio del Seicento, le cui edizioni erano basate sui manoscritti conservati nell’Archivio Generale. Durante la tavola rotonda abbiamo ascoltato gli interventi di Flavia Digiampaolo, Cristiano García e Glen Attard rispettivamente su Giovanni Antonio Filippini, Ludovico Pérez e Jan Pascha. Il 19 maggio 2023 si sono tenute delle visite guidate all’Archivio e alla Biblioteca Generali dei Carmelitani, in occasione delle Giornate di valorizzazione del patrimonio ecclesiastico promosse dalla Conferenza Episcopale Italiana. I tre turni di visite hanno visto la partecipazione di una cinquantina di persone, tra…

Piano piano ci stiamo avvicinando alla fine dell’anno accademico 2022/2023 e questo è anche un buon momento per un breve riassunto generale. Due dei nostri fratelli hanno difeso il loro dottorato. Uno in filosofia e l’altro in teologia fondamentale. Sono già tornati nelle loro province, lasciando così la nostra comunità. Al loro posto sono arrivati altri due fratelli. Di conseguenza, alla fine dell’anno accademico la nostra comunità conta 19 persone. Per quanto riguarda le materie trattate dai nostri studenti, quattro fratelli studiano spiritualità, quattro Sacra Scrittura, tre dogmatica, uno mariologia, uno diritto canonico e uno pedagogia. In questo gruppo, abbiamo tre studenti del secondo ciclo che stanno conseguendo la licenza,…

On 26th April 2023, Fr. Điệp successfully defensed his doctorate dissertation at Pontificia Università Gregoriana. His thesis is Jesus Christ “The Word-made-flesh” in Asia: A Christological Study of the Documents of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences Below is the summary of his defense presentation My thesis is an effort to present a Christology for Asia based on the documents of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (hereafter, the FABC). Its motivation is to answer the question: «How can Jesus be the Savior for all Asia’s peoples while most Asians are non-Christian»? I outline below the background for the formation of this thesis since it can explain the motivation, originality,…

My maiden visit to Italy was in 2014, and its scope was higher studies. Consequently, I became a member of Cisa community and enrolled in the Gregorian Pontifical University in 2015. I completed my Licentiate in Philosophy (L. Phil.) with a thesis: Edith Stein’s Concept of the Human Person as an Embodiment of Spiritual Essence. I planned to return to India, but the Regens Studiorum, Mark Attard O. Carm., suggested that I do a PhD in Philosophy. I agreed with his thought and enrolled for the doctoral cycle in 2017. I decided to continue my interest in Edith Stein and did comparative research with Indian mystical thought. Under the guidance…

1901 – 1902:   Francesco Raiti – Provinicia Melitae 1902 – 1904:   Cirillo Ramis – Provincia Hispaniae 1904 – 1905:   Giovanni Lorenzoni – Provincia Romana 1906 – 1908:   Telesforo Fiorentini – Provincia Toscana 1908 – 1910:   Giovanni Casciani – Provincia Toscana 1910 – 1917:   Carmelo Tabone – Provincia Melitae 1917 – 1919:   Lorenzo van den Eerenbeemt – Provincia Neerlandiae 1919 – 1925:   Antonio Franco – Provincia Sicilia 1925:              Francesco Saverio Ronayne 1926 – 1928:   Salvatore Jaccarini – come vicario priore Provincia Melitae 1928 – 1931:   Ilarione Spiteri – Provincia Melitae 1931 – 1943:   Giovanni Brenninger – Provincia Germaniae Superioris…

La canonizzazione di Tito Brandsma After the canonization of John of the Cross by Pope Benedict XIII (on December 27th 1726) and the canonization of Nuno Álvares Pereira by Pope Benedict XVI (on April 26th 2009), another Carmelite – Titus Brandsma (1881-1942), the martyr of Dachau from our Dutch province – has now been canonized. Saint Titus was a member of our college from 1906 to 1909, when he studied at the Gregorian University, where he obtained a doctorate degree in philosophy. You can find more information about his life and activities on our Order’s website: www.ocarm.org. After the canonization Mass in our college, a commemorative plaque was inaugurated in the room…

Ordinazione diaconale di fr. Matteo On April 25th last, our brother, Matteo Antollini, was ordained a deacon by Archbishop Mgr Francesco Gioia in the evocative Basilica of Santa Maria in Traspontina, literally a few steps from our house. The celebration was attended by many brothers of the Italian Province, to which Fra’ Matteo belongs, and by many friends, family members, priests, deacons, nuns, companions from the Pontifical Gregorian University, parishioners from San Martino ai Monti and Traspontina as well as from Malnate, his home town. Afterwards, there was a beautiful time of celebration and fraternal sharing in the courtyard of our college. We pray that our Brother, Matteo, will live this…