 |
Curia OCD
Roma (15-01-2009).- As previously announced the symposium was celebrated from January 2-5 at the Teresianum, Rome. It involved the participation of some outstanding carmelite scholars: Fr. Thomas Alverez (St. Teresa, Foundress of the Discalced Carmelite Friars in the first period of our historiography), Fr. Eulogio Pacho (Historiography of the Teresian-Carmelite Spirituality), Fr. Jose Vicente Rodriguez (Essay on the Historiography of St. John of the Cross), We are grateful to them for sacrificing their time. Fr. General opened the event with an introductory talk and at the end with a closing statement.
There were talks on historiography in the different areas of the Order. Of course, the Symposium did not try to exhaust all this information, it wanted only to present some indications so that the same concern [for our history] will be taken up in other areas of the Order. This concern should be borne in mind from the first moment of the Orders presence. Everywhere efforts should be made to collect, preserve, catalogue and, where possible, publish in a scientific journal the documentary sources of our history. Other specific research papers were also read by other participants.
Without excluding anyone, the Symposium was aimed at those who work in the field of historiography. For this reason we endeavoured to limit the number of participants. By the end of the encouter it became clear that we need to be more concerned to preserve, put into order and publish our archival sources. Later on, such sources can form part of our history, reproducing as they do the life and workings of carmel. Historiography repeats the past and sheds light on the future. It is for this reason that we need to encourage our young carmelites to cultivate the history of our family, to promote it, in the sense of memoriam rerum, which is an on-going examination of who we are.
|
|
 |
|
|
| 
