This Sunday Francisco will canonize Charles de Foucault (1858-1916), a spiritually fruitful saint after his death as he was a failure in life. explain this paradox daisy saldanagraduate in Journalism and Dogmatic Theology and author of several books: Saint Joseph: the eyes of the bowels, God’s Land: a spirituality for daily life either Inhabited routine: … Read more
On September 1, 1858, he was born in Strasbourg into a noble family, Charles-Eugene de Foucauld. His parents died, one after the other in 1864 and Charles and Maria, his sister, are entrusted to his grandfather, Colonel Morlet, a good but weak man. He completed his studies in Paris at a Jesuit college and began … Read more
“One of the greatest teachers of prayer and spirituality of all time. He was truly like the seed of the Gospel; a seed that, despite the aridity of the desert, helped to make a tired and habitual Christianity flourish”: thus Father Leonardo Sapienza, priest and regent of the Papal Household, speaks of Charles de Foucauld … Read more
The image of St. Charles de Foucauld in the parish dedicated to him in Brindisi – Badaracchi The first parish in Italy to be dedicated to San Carlo di Gesù (the name chosen by Charles de Foucauld after embarking on religious life), proclaimed a saint by Pope Francis on May 15, is located in the … Read more
A book to “let oneself be infected” by the life and spirituality of Charles de Foucauld, proclaimed a saint by the Pope on May 15 last. It was signed by Msgr. Leonardo Sapienza, regent of the Prefecture of the Papal Household (Photo: ANSA / SIR) “Let yourself be infected by Brother Charles’s experience of Jesus, … Read more
His name was François de Foucauld, like the saint – his great-grand cousin. He would have turned 50 a few days later and had been a priest for 18 years in the diocese of Versailles. This Friday, July 8, his funeral will be celebrated at 3 p.m. at the church of Vésinet, about twenty kilometers … Read more
Charles de Foucauld prayed that the Lord would send “holy little brothers and little sisters of the Sacred Heart wherever they are needed”. Fourteen years after her death, Little Sister Magdeleine founded the first fraternity of the Little Sisters of Jesus in the Sahara. How are these nuns imbued with the spirituality of Charles of … Read more
The text intended for the scene bears the signature of Franco Molè, a believer but critical of ecclesial institutions, yet impressed by the figure of the French mystic who will be canonized on Sunday 15 May. The story, on the pages of L’Osservatore Romano by Francisco Javier Froján Madero A few days ago the original … Read more
This Sunday Francisco will canonize Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916), a saint spiritually as fruitful after his death as he was unsuccessful in life. explains this paradox Margarita Saldanagraduated in Journalism and Dogmatic Theology and author of several books: Saint Joseph: the eyes of the entrails, Land of God: a spirituality for everyday life either Inhabited … Read more
Charles de Foucauld is already a saint. On May 15, he was canonized along with nine other blesseds in Rome, in the first major celebration of its kind after the pandemic. More than 2,500 kilometers from there are the remains of “brother Carlos”, who rest in a simple tomb, how could it be otherwise. And … Read more