July
15, 2014
The novices, as part of their spiritual activity, have
their monthly recollection in the novitiate house. Fr. Joseph the novice master
invited Fr. Ferdinando Ronconi CSS, an Italian missionary priest in Thailand,
as the speaker. The recollection started at 9:00 o’clock in the morning with
the beautiful reading taken from Ephesians 4: 11-16.
He shared about the Stigmatine congregation and the
founder. First, he presented the history of the congregation followed by the Stigmatine
way of life, the charism, the spirit of the congregation and the short family
background of St. Gaspar Bertoni the founder of the congregation.
He asked many questions to the novices particularly about
the congregation and about their vocation. Some querries were these: why we are
called Stigmatines? Why do you enter the Stigmatine congregation and why St.
Gaspar Bertoni chose Mary and Joseph as patron saints? and a like.
The importance of Paschal Mystery was also discussed,
which the solemnity of the Five Wounds of our Lord Jesus Christ, follows. This celebration is the radical reason why
the congregation’s confreres are called Stigmatines(from latin word “stigmata”
which means wound).
After the talk the novices went to the sacrament of
confession having Fr. Ronconi as their confessor.
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