Ariccia, 5 April 1964 She [Maestra Thecla] has left us many example, including this one: with a big heart, she always generously helped the Institutes of the Pious Disciples, the Pastorelle Sisters and the Apostolines. With her own hands she prepared their habits down to the smallest details, making and remaking them until she considered […]
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I am praying for everyone
Thanking the Daughters of St. Paul for their best wishes for his 50th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood (1957), he said: I am praying for everyone. I know that [the FSPs] everywhere are following Prima Maestra and this is everything. In fact, it is your way to holiness and the apostolate. And then? We […]
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On the occasion of the Chapter held immediately after Prima Maestra’s death to elect a new Superior General, Fr. Alberione said: The government must continue, applying itself always more to particularities, because Prima Maestra had special faculties, besides having a much broader view of everything. Now we have reached the point of normal government. Hers […]
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Today is the Feast of St. Thecla. Today the Church invites us to rejoice. St. Thecla is considered to be the first female Christian martyr. This feast invites us to rejoice because the name of this saint is a program of life. The same is true of Prima Maestra. If all [the FSPs] possessed the […]
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M. Tecla: A Program of Life for Every Daughter of St. Paul
“I would like you all to be like Prima Maestra” Here are some of Fr. Alberione’s statements, overflowing with affection and gratitude, concerning the role of Maestra Thecla in the history of the Congregation of the Daughters of St. Paul. Maestra Thecla: Always Obedient… If obedience is being lived in the Congregation, much of the […]
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