Sant’Andrea Apostolo

Family catechesis, discovering Jesus with mum and dad

Knowing Jesus, his Word, the sacraments, the Mass. The path of catechism for boys and girls in the parishes entrusted to the Doctrinaries in Turin and Rome is experienced one Sunday a month, after Sunday mass with the community, together with the parents. Daniela Mogavero talks about her experience as Federico's mother in the parish of Sant'Andrea Apostolo, in Rome. Commitment. Sharing. Rediscovered. These are the three words which, reflecting on almost two years of family catechesis, best describe my [...]

By |2024-09-02T12:33:50+02:0027 February 2024|Italy|
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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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Rome, the Parish of Sant’Andrea Apostolo celebrates for Cesare de Bus, the holy catechist

One year after the canonization of Cesare de Bus, on 15 May 2022, the parish community of Sant'Andrea apostolo in Rome, entrusted to the Doctrinaires Fathers, celebrated with a triduum of prayers that began on 12 May with the Via Lucis at 5 pm and ended with the Eucharistic concelebration on Sunday 14 at 18. The celebration, presided over by Father Sergio La Pegna, Superior General of the Congregation, was attended not only by numerous Doctrinaires Fathers, but also by [...]

By |2024-09-02T18:11:38+02:0019 May 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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