Communicationes AVILA - SPAIN (13-07-2010).- Avila’s International Centre of Teresa and John of the Cross (CITeS – Centre of Mysticism) will be offering an Internet transmission of the Ist. International Teresian Congress on ‘The Book of Her Life’.
Sources from CITeS inform us that it will be possible to follow the entire Congress (23-31 August in Avila) on the Internet. The Centre will provide a website (www.teresadeavila.
Communicationes BROUSSEY - FRANCE (12-07-2010).- On 15th April, during the celebration of the Plenary Council of the Avignon-Aquitania Province, the remains of Fr. Hermann Cohen (1820-1871) were moved to the Monastery of Broussey, near Burdeos.
The mortal remains of Fr. Hermann were placed in the Conventual Chapel, where the altar includes a fragment donated by the Queen of Spain, Maria Cristina.
VISIT OF FR. MARCOS JURCHEM, GENERAL DEFINITOR, TO CAIRO
Communicationes CAIRO - EGYPT (30-06-2010).- The Basilica of St. Teresita here in Cairo was built in 1930. It is very imposing in modern Byzantine style with Arabic-Egyptian ornamentation. The monastery is also very big and was constructed in 1939. It served as a stop-over for missionaries on their way further east.
There is only one underground station, called Saint Therese, situated very near our monastery.
Communicationes BUKAVU - R.D. CONGO (21-06-2010).- An attack by armed men was launched against the Theological Seminary of St. John of the Cross in Bukavu in the early hours of Sunday 20 June. Given its ferocity we are fortunate not to have to report fatalities.
At about 1 o’clock in the morning a group of armed men in uniform invaded the seminary grounds.
Communicationes MADRID (15-06-2010).- On the 4th anniversary of his death, ‘Espiritualidad’ has issued a 2-volume collection of the more significant articles of Fr. Jesús, published in its pages over the past 30 years.
Under the titles “Western Spirituality. Christian Mysticism” and “Eastern Spirituality.
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Communicationes n. 152 [13.07.2010]
