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Monday, 01 July 2024 13:10

Founders of the Missionary Sisters Letter Exchange

4 July Optional Memorial in the Italian provinces

Centenary of the first exchange of letters between the Founders of the Carmelite Missionary Sisters of St. Therese of the Child Jesus

In the early afternoon of Sunday, June 23, 2024, a meeting was held to commemorate the first exchange of letters between the founders of the Carmelite Missionary Sisters of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Blessed M. Maria Crocifissa Curcio and Father Lorenzo van den Eerenbeemt, O. Carm.

Their fruitful human and spiritual relationship, in fact, began with a letter that Father Lorenzo sent on June 23, 1924, writing from St. Albert's International College, where he was a professor, at the suggestion of Fr. Alberto Grammatico, a confrere and colleague: it was a proposal to start together a female Institute of "active, religious, Carmelite life" for the missions. Within a few days, on the following June 28, Mother M. Crocifissa responded with great joy from Modica (Ragusa), adhering with enthusiasm to the proposal after many years of suffering fidelity to the vocation of Carmelite religious of active life. Their purpose, which over time became clearer and more refined, was realized about a year later, on July 3, 1925, with the founding of the Congregation in Santa Marinella (Rome).

From what is now CISA and beginning with a short pilgrimage on foot from the church of Santa Maria in Traspontina, not far away, the event re-enacted what happened now a century ago, retracing the places from where the two letters started and delving into their words and contents.

Everything was shared online with the Congregation's communities and lay friends from all parts of the world, while the gathering in the "St. Titus Brandsma" hall of CISA was attended by numerous sisters of the Congregation of various nationalities, a representation of the Sisters of the Institute of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, some friars of the CISA community and a large representation of members of the Third Carmelite Order of Rome. We cordially thank the brothers from the communities of CISA and Santa Maria in Traspontina for their welcome.

This celebration stands as a key moment within the path of the "Year of the Founders" with which the Congregation is continuing the journey undertaken now for a year with the celebration of a year dedicated to St. Therese of the Child Jesus and which will conclude with the celebration of a Jubilee Year on the occasion of the first centenary of the birth of the Congregation.

Sr M. Nerina de Simone cmstgb

Brief Biography of Bl. M. Maria Crocifissa Curcio

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