23rd January in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Letter to Fr. Charmetant, Superior at Ouadhias – Living poor (23rd January 1874)
My dear child
I still cannot understand how the house where you are spends more than the others that are content with what I give them.

22nd January in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Letter to the Superior General on how to visit communities (20th January 1875)
My dear child,
The Bursar, who must always be someone other than the Father Superior, needs to submit the house accounts ledger to you, checking it out in every detail. After checking it out thoroughly, you must sign it and, if any, make your observations in writing in it.

About Lavigerie’s grandmother

ROSE AGNÈS FOURTICOT (1779-1847) Rose Agnès, Cardinal Lavigerie’s grandmother, was born in Pau on January 21, 1779, in her parents’ home on “rue Nationale” (today rue de maréchal Joffre). She […]

21st January in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Letter to his friend Bishop Foulon, Archbishop of Besançon (3 January 1887)
Reverend and Dear Monsignor,
I thank your Grace for your best wishes, and I send mine to you in return. They are sincere like old friendships, because, in truth, ours has been going on for almost half a century.

Dialogue as a new way of being church

“Indeed, the whole history of man’s salvation is one long, varied dialogue, which marvelously begins with God and which He prolongs with men in so many different ways” (ES 70). Since Vatican II the Church has taken a new attitude, indeed a new approach, towards other churches, other religions, including a new approach to cultures, which are viewed in a positive way. 

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