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Father Battista Previtali returned to the Father’s house on October 20

“Lord Jesus, I know from Your own Word that in heaven I will be your laus misericordiae” (From Previtali’s Testament) Dear brothers and friends, on 20 October 2023, at the “San Pietro” hospital in Rome, the dearest Father Battista Previtali passed away peacefully and with the comfort of prayer. Born in Bonate Sopra (Bergamo) on 22 January 1934, he entered our Seminary of San Damiano d’Asti as an aspirant in 1946. After completing his novitiate year on 8 October [...]

By |2024-09-02T18:09:54+02:0023 November 2023|Italy|
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Father Battista Previtali returned to the Father’s house

Father Battista Previtali returned to the Father's house on Friday 20 October. The funeral was celebrated in Rome, in the parish of Sant'Andrea Apostolo, via Cassia 731, on Monday 23 October at 11am and Tuesday 24 October at 3pm, in Bonate Sopra in the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta. Father Battista Previtali was born in Bonate Sopra (BG) on 22 January 1934. Having entered the Congregation of Doctrinaries in 1946, he was ordained a priest in Varallo Sesia (VC) [...]

By |2024-09-01T11:50:07+02:0023 October 2023|Uncategorized|
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Turin, to Jesus of Nazareth the archbishop for Saint Caesar

On the 2nd Sunday of Easter, 16 April, the parish community of Jesus Nazareno welcomed Archbishop Roberto Repole for the Eucharistic celebration and for the liturgical feast of Saint Cesare de Bus, founder of the Priests of Christian Doctrine, canonized by Pope Francis on May 15, 2022. On November 11, 1902, the Doctrinaries arrived in the Cit Turin, then a suburban district, to first found a new house, then a parish and finally build a monumental church. “Jesus of Nazareth [...]

By |2023-04-21T10:13:21+02:0021 April 2023|Italy|
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Catechism? Of course, but in the family

The proposal is very innovative, albeit demanding: from «Wednesday Luca doesn’t play volleyball, I’ll take him to catechism» to: «We’re not here on Sunday, we’ll do catechism». Imaginary dialogues between parents in Turin and Rome. In the two parishes that the bishops have entrusted to them, Jesus of Nazareth and Saint Andrew the Apostle, the Doctrine Fathers propose family catechesis in preparation for the sacraments of first Confession and first Communion. An experimentation that began in 2013 in Turin, which [...]

By |2022-12-14T11:06:48+01:009 December 2022|Italy|
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