Sowing prayer in the child’s heart
Jesus says in the Gospel: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in...
Collecting like shells and pouring out like canals
In a letter that St. Joseph Calasanz writes to Fr. Vicente Berro in 1643 (EP 4120), he records this beautiful principle of spiritual life. The Saint enters into his personal participation in the paschal mystery of Jesus, from which he accompanies and guides one of the...
Continuous Prayer, at the voice of the Spirit
For some years now, the Piarists have aimed to renew and promote Continuous Prayer in our schools, being faithful to the heritage received from St. Joseph Calasanz and wishing to adapt it to our times. Called by the line of action of the last General Chapter: "To care...
Continuous Prayer, a call to live the spirit of prayer and to educate it in your students
St. Joseph Calasanz, docile to the voice of the Spirit, wanted the spirit and education in prayer to be part of his school, and thus he wrote it down in the first documents of Calasanctian pedagogy: "Every day, from the beginning until dismissal of the class, nine...
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