by Javier F. Chento | Jul 16, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
If it is helpful for young people to meet friends and brothers, it is essential for the Society to recruit its members among the Youth. Fourteen years ago, the Society was born: it must not get old as its founders grow old and charity becomes a routine practice. Youth...
by Javier F. Chento | Jul 9, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
A patron saint is not, in fact, a trivial insignia for a Society, such as a St. Denis or St. Nicholas for an inn. Nor is it an honorable name under which a good impression can be made before the religious world: it is a model that we must strive to live, as he himself...
by Javier F. Chento | Jul 2, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
The only rule to be considered for human actions is that of love: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God above all things, and thy neighbor as thyself”; magnificent law that recognizes three principles of human actions: —the infinite love of God, immense,...
by Javier F. Chento | Jun 25, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
In Christianity, the primary purpose of marriage is not the birth of children– St. Augustine says it aptly, and it is also the doctrine of Tertullian, who has been called “the father of Latin Christianity” and “the founder of Western...
by Javier F. Chento | Jun 18, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
For there are two doctrines of progress: the first, nourished in the schools of sensualism, rehabilitates the passions, and, promising the nations an earthly paradise at the end of a flowery path, gives them only a premature hell at the end of a way of blood; whilst...
