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| Father Saverio Cannistrà, new Superior General of Discalced Carmelites |
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Fátima (20-04-2009).- Father Saverio Cannistrà of the Sacred Heart, until now Provincial Superior of the Italian Province of Toscany, has been chosen this morning, 20 of April, the new General Superior of the Discalced Carmelite Order.
After the election and the acceptance of the position, the new Superior General made the profession of faith. Later, the Chapter participants transferred to the chapel of the Domus Carmeli in procession singing the Te Deum. Once in the chapel, each one of those present expressed their acceptance of the new General by means of a fraternal embrace while singing Ecce quam bonum and Nada te Turbe of Santa Teresa of Jesus.
In his first words to the Chapter Father Cannistrà affirmed that before the difficulty involved in this new position that the Order entrusts to him, I felt that God pushed to me and that, embracing each of you, I am able to attach myself to God.
The new Superior Carmelite General of the Order is 50 years of age and from Calabria, the city of Catanzaro. He studied philology in the Escuola Superior Normale of Pisa and has a Doctorate in Dogmatic Theology from the Gregorian University of Rome. He has given classes in the Faculty of Theology of the Teresianum of Rome and at most recently he was professor of Christology and theological anthropology in the Faculty of Theology of Central Italy near Florence.
He entered in the novitiate in 1985 and the following year made his first profession. In 1990 he made his solemn profession and it was ordained a priest in October of 1992.
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