Writer: Teresa Zampogna

  • Meditations

The Lord placed a seed

The offering of oneself in the earth of the community makes our life come to fruition and renders it fertile. A meditation from the Vicar General.

  • Emmanuele Silanos
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Anniversary of Foundation

This September, the Fraternity and the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles celebrated, respectively, the 39th and the 19th anniversaries of foundation. To celebrate this occasion, like every year, we organized a large gathering at the parish of St. Mary of the Rosary, in the neighborhood of the Magliana, in Rome. The program began with the […]

  • Roma
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Celebration in Bad Godesberg

The parishioners of Bad Godesberg (Bonn, Germany) and the friends of the German community of Communion and Liberation celebrated the 39th anniversary of the foundation of the Fraternity of St. Charles. After the celebration of the Holy Mass, the celebration continued with games and songs in the external spaces of the parish. It was also […]

  • Bonn
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  • Testimonies

The strength of perseverance

The adventure of education is made up of successes and failures. For this reason, there must be a communion that sustains it. A testimony from the Colombian capital.

  • Andrea Sidoti
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Retreat in Subiaco

To begin the new social year, the House of Formation of the Fraternity of St. Charles spent a few days at the monastery of St. Scholastica, in Subiaco.

  • House of formation
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  • Non categorizzato

A walk around Rome

To reopen the heart, a day of charitable work among the beauty of the Eternal City.

  • Tiago Lucio
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Meeting 2024

Like every year, the Fraternity and the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo participated in the 45th edition of the “Meeting for friendship among peoples.”

  • Rimini
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He has taken all of my heart 

After 25 years among Russian prisons and the Siberian steppe, there remains a profound certainty: through the hands of a priest, you encounter Christ.

  • Giampiero Caruso
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Freedom is dependence on God

The high school and university students of Communion and Liberation in Mexico met in Atlixco, in the state of Pueblo, for a weeklong retreat with the theme: “This is the paradox: Freedom is dependence on God.” In the final days of their gathering, they were joined also by their families and by other adults of […]

  • Mexico City
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Your name was born from what you gazed upon

From the 2nd to the 5th of July, before the Pacific OCean at El Quisco, there was the winter vacation of the young people of the parish Blessed Pietro Bonilli of Puente Alto. The story of St. Francis of Assisi was the golden thread of the invernal event, with the title “Your name was born […]

  • Santiago de Chile
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  • Testimonies

What are you afraid of?

The real questions of friends can open the path to the discovery of one’s own vocation: the story of Matteo Pagani, ordained to the priesthood this past June 22nd.

  • Matteo Pagani
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A new church at Cuidad de Sol

The mission of the Fraternity of St. Charles in Santiago, Chile recently grew. This past 7th of July, on Sunday, there was the first Mass celebrated in the new church of Ciudad de Sol, dedicated to Mary, Mother Admirable. At the celebration, presided by the Episcopal Vicar, there were over 800 people.

  • Santiago de Chile
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An experience of communion and friendship

From Trento, to Bologna, to Rome, the discovery of a friendship whose aim is to serve the glory of Christ. The story of Martino Zavarise, ordained to the priesthood this past June 22nd.

  • Martino Zavarise
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A home everywhere

João Brito was ordained to the priesthood last June 22: between Portugal, Italy, and Chile, the intuition of a call and the discovery of a great home as large as the world.

  • João Brito
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I too want to abandon myself to Christ

Among the recently ordained priests of the Fraternity of St. Charles is Giovanni Barrani. His story teaches us that vocation is also an experience of salvation, just like in the movies.

  • Giovanni Barrani
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The promises of God

The great promises of God prepare us to welcome the vocation that He has thought of for us: the story of Ignazio Beghi.

  • Ignazio Beghi
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First Mass

On Sunday July 23rd, at the church of Santa Maria in Domnica in Roma, Fr. Giovanni Barranni celebrated the first mass of the newly ordained priests of the Fraternity of St. Charles. With him were also concelebrating Ignazio Beghi, João Brito, Matteo Pagani and Martino Zavarise, all of whom were ordained the day before.

  • Roma
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Ordinations 2024

On Saturday, June 22nd, in the papal basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, Giovanni Barrani, Ignazio Beghi, João Brito, Matteo Pagani and Martino Zavarise received priestly ordination through the imposition of the hands of Cardinal Sean O’Malley. In the same liturgy, Tommaso Benzoni, Andrea La Piana and Simone Moretti were ordained deacons.

  • Roma
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Spiritual Exercises of Taiwan

The 25th and 26th of May, over 40 people participated in the spiritual exercises of Communion and Liberation in Taiwan, preached by Father Paolo Costa. The retreat was held at the Wencui Center in New Taipei City, in the district of Xindian.

  • Taipei
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