Anthology of texts2021-12-19T15:26:37+01:00

Anthology of Spiritual texts of Fr Josep Xifré

Fr. Américo Paulo dos Santos Freitas Maia, cmf, from the province of Portugal, has selected a series of texts from the circulars written by Fr. José Xifré as well as from three of Fr. Xifré’s books (El auxiliar de los Misioneros, Espíritu de la Congregación y La gracia Divina) related to spiritual life and he has translated them into Portuguese.

This accurate and arduous work allows us, a year after the closing of the Xifré Year, to turn our regard to the spiritual magisterium of someone who was Superior General of our Congregation for more than 40 years.

We are given a new opportunity to drink from the sources of our missionary charism and find in these texts some encouragement to live our apostolic (more…)

Chronicle of the Congregation

Chronicle of the Congregation. (in Spanish) Written by Most Reverend Father Joseph XIFRÉ, CMF.

His first part tells us about the Founder, origins and principles of the Congregation. The other describes its development until the foundation of Santo Domingo de la Calzada (1885).

Father Xifré began writing the Chronicle on January 13, 1893, but we do not know when he finished it.

It appeared in Studia Claretiana XVII, pages 21 to 93, in the year 1999.

 

Last Goodbye

Fr. Martin Alsina found this manuscrit (in Spanish) document between the writings of the deceased. It was his Last Good-bye.”

You can also see this same document in a later edition: Last Farewell. Lit. Cervera 1899, 14X9.5 cm. AC of Vic, Set A-1, 9-6, 42-48.

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