Studies on the Charism of St. Gaspar Bertoni
 

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The Nuptial Theme in the Spiritual Life - Theological Reflections (345 KB, 17 pages)

Author	Rev. Joseph Charles Henchey, CSS
Place	University St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, IL, USA
Year	2008

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Points of Agreement on the Studies on the Original Constitutions of St. Gaspar Bertoni (18 KB)

Author	Comission for the Original Constitutions
Place	Waltham, MA, USA
Year	2003

 

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St. Gaspar Bertoni: Part IX of his Original Constitutions (315 KB)

Author	Rev. Joseph Charles Henchey, CSS
Place	Province of the Holy Espousals, Waltham (MA), USA
Year	2005
Summary	This study focuses on the heart of the Original Constitutions of the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata. It is this PART IX of St. Gaspar Bertoni that would correspond to Part VII of the Jesuit Constitutions, which speaks of the Apostolic Missions for St. Ignatius.  It is said that he began with his Part VII, which unfolds the ‘content’ of the Jesuit Fourth Vow to the Holy Father concerning the Ignatian Missions to the Church.  The Jesuit Founder built the rest of the Jesuit Constitutions around his Part VII.  For St. Gaspar, it is PART IX that conveys his central idea concerning the Stigmatine Apostolic Mission. This is the part that speaks of the special duties of the Apostolic Missionaries - this work ‘spells out’ the central ideals of the Compendium Rude - and which contains the very central CF # 185, which greatly develops Fr. Bertoni’s central  ideal for the Stigmatines.

 

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St. Gaspar Bertoni: Compendium Rude of his Original Constitutions (291 KB)

Author	Rev. Joseph Charles Henchey, CSS
Place	Province of the Holy Espousals, Waltham (MA), USA
Year	2004
Summary	The title of this section of St. Gaspar Bertoni’s – the Compendium Rude  - might best be understood as a kind of general introductory synthesis to his entire Original Constitutions. In these first eight Constitutions there are noted the principal elements of the 12 Parts of his Constitutions which follow.

 

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A Historical Study on the Charism of St. Gaspar Bertoni (318 KB)

Author	Rev. Joseph Charles Henchey, CSS
Place	Province of the Holy Espousals, Waltham (MA), USA
Year	2003
Summary	In this historical study on the Charism of St. Gaspar Bertoni, the Author points out the importance of the teaching for the Apostolic Mission of the Congregation. As the Stigmatines were intended by St. Gaspar Bertoni to be “Apostolic Missionaries for the Assistance of Bishops” – motto of the Congregation – “through any Ministry of the Word of God whatsoever”, the Author guides us in a journey through the time, from the early Stigmatine communities, and through the essence of the Bertonian Charism, with its roots in St. Ignatius of Loyola’s goals for his Society of Jesus and in St. Gregory, the Great, Pope’s writings, on which St. Gaspar based some of his preaching to the Diocesan Seminaries.

   

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The Original Constitutions of St. Gaspar Bertoni (331 KB)

Author	St. Gaspar Bertoni
Place	Verona, Italy
Year	1816 - 1853

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Rev. Joseph Charles Henchey, CSS