This volume contains a selection of letters written by Blessed Rosmini during the last few years of his life. They are precious gems of spiritual direction which shows his wisdom and his total dedication to God and neighbour. His correspondents came from a great variety of backgrounds, and whether he was consoling someone who had suffered bereavement, or trying to save the vocation of a lay-brother in difficulties, he showed endless patience and concern. A striking feature of Rosmini is his ability both to "think big" and to go into minute details. What he recommended to others he practised himself. He regarded a religious vocation as a most sacred thing, and he was at pains, with endless patience, to help his brethren and his Sisters when they had problems in fulfilling the pledges they had made to God. Among the recipients of the letters included in this volume we find famous names, like St. John Bosco, Baroness Koenneritz, Nicolo' Tommaseo, and names of famous politicians and of Cardinals and Bishops.
A Collective Summary Antonio Rosmini is the greatest, most original, prophetic Catholic thinker of the last few centuries, little known in the English-speaking world. Following the advice of Popes and Cardinals, he wrote extensively on philosophy, theology, and spirituality, and his teaching is extremely relevant to the major issues confronting the world and the Church of today. His books on spirituality are firmly rooted on Scripture from which they draw the perennial call to holiness, and the means for achieving it through the three steps of purification from sin, constant exercise of the virtues, and union with God. His books on philosophy are full of light for the enquiring mind, ranging from the problem of Truth and Epistemology, to the foundation of Morality, of Right, of Politics, of Natural Anthropology and Natural Religion, and of the Essence of the Human Soul. His work on Theosophy is a most profound study of "being", in its three modes - ideal being, real being, moral being. Faith and Reason, for Rosmini, far from being in opposition are in fact the two wings which allow human beings to rise from the natural to the supernatural world, the one calling on the other, faith calling on reason and reason on faith. His theological masterpiece is undoubtedly the Supernatural Anthropology, which deals with grace, with the "supernatural person", and with the Sacraments. Other important works deal with the Church, in particular with the "wounds" of the Church.
This is a life of Blessed Rosmini with a difference. It contains the relevant events of the life of the Blessed whom Pope Francis called a "persecuted prophet", and has a brief summary of his teaching on philosophy and spirituality. It is a "must" to the introduction to the life and thought of the greatest Catholic thinker of modern times.
This new edition of the Spiritual Calendar provides a welcome opportunity to make contact with the vibrant spirituality of Blessed Antonio Rosmini, the "householder" of the Gospel "who brings from his storeroom things both new and old". Each daily reflection is a pearl of wisdom which reaches out to the concrete situations of life shedding light and encouraging a response based on truth and charity.
This is undoubtedly the most famous of Rosmini's books, in which he notes defects and abuses in the Church, but in a twofold spirit of suffering and hope. Saddened by the inevitable shortcomings of churchmen, he believed and trusted with complete certainty in the infinite power of the Holy Spirit at work in the Church. It caused him immense personal damage, but he felt that the renewal of the Church was of such great urgency that he had to be prepared to suffer for it. Rosmini borrowed the image of the "crucified Church" from Pope Innocent IV (1243-1254).
Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (1797D1855) was one of the first natural law scholars to bring natural law thinking into a conversation with the market economic order that was beginning to emerge in Europe in the 19th century. His reflections on matters such as the origin, nature, and limits of private property, the role of the state, and the nature of human reason show him to be a unique, innovative thinker who nonetheless was determined to work within the parameters of Catholic doctrine. Many of these ideas are concretized in his seminal work The Constitution Under Social Justice, a text that has profound instights to offer those today seeking to integrate theology, philosophy, and economics into their conceptions of a social order that aspires to be both free and just.
This is a new book on the Epistemology of Blessed Rosmini. It is the second book of the series ROSMINI TODAY, a series which aims at making Rosmini easier to understand. The book is light and readable, addressed to readers who like to stop and think about the root-causes of so many problems. It presents Rosmini's magnificent solution to a problem which has been debated for over 2000 years, "Where do we get all our ideas from? And, since ideas in our mind constitute our knowledge, can we be assured that we can arrive at the truth? And what is truth?" Today's crisis is about truth, in morality, religion, personhood, the existence of the spiritual soul, and so on: Rosmini has persuasive solutions to our problems.
Rosmini is acknowledged as a great Christian philosopher, original and daring in his teaching, and utterly convincing. He is less known as a theologian, mainly because nearly all his theological works have been published after his death, having been left unfinished by the author. Yet, they are truly outstanding and precious, in line with the writings of the great Fathers of the Church, extremely learned on Scripture and on the teaching of the Magisterium, and throwing new light on our understanding of the Trinity, of the supernatural world of grace, and of the Sacraments. The present book is a commentary on the introduction to the Gospel of St. John, and deals with the eternal generation of the Word, the Word's role in Creation, the actions of the Word throughout Salvation History, the death and resurrection of JESUS, and the Eucharistic life in relation to the Christian. The subject matter is difficult but inspired and uplifting: great light is thrown on the great Christian Mysteries, with much warmth and desire to elicit a generous response.
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