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THE ROGATE: CHARISM of the ROGATIONISTS Notes, Testimonies, Teachings QUADERNI DI “IN CAMMINO” Notes “Along a Journey” Gaetano Ciranni THE ROGATE: CHARISM OF THE ROGATIONISTS Notes, testimonies, teachings English edition - 2020 CENTER FOR ROGATIONIST STUDIES General Curia – Rome 2 Original title: IL ROGATE: CARISMA DEI ROGAZIONISTI. Appunti, testimonianze, insegnamenti, Supplement to Studi Rogazionisti, n. 104 (gennaio-marzo 2010) Roma. Translation: Fr. Jessie Martirizar RCJ, Fr. Marcelino Diaz RCJ, Fr. Ulrich Gacayan, RCJ General Editor: Fr. Jose Maria Ezpeleta RCJ Authorized for printing: Fr. Bruno Rampazzo RCJ Superior General of the Rogationists of the Heart of Jesus © Rogationists of the Heart of Jesus Commission on Translations Rome, September 24, 2020 First Centenary of the Birth of Fr. Gaetano Ciranni RCJ (1920-2020) English translation sources: Biblical citations: Revised Standard Version; citations from the Latin Vulgate: Rheims-Duoay 1898 Version. Declarations and Promises: Appendix of the Constitutions of the Rogationists of the Heart of Jesus, 2010. Documents of the Rogationist Congregation: official English translation. Church documents: www.vatican.va. Messages of the Popes: L’osservatore Romano English Edition; some published also in www.vatican.va. 3 Table of Contents Editorial Notes Notes on the English edition Foreword Introduction Who are the recipients? Abbreviations 1. The Charisms 2. Charismatic Dimension of the Church – States of Life 3. The Charism of “Consecrated Life” 4. The Charism of the Founder 5. The Charism of the Founder or the Founding Charism 6. Definitions of the Founding Charism 7. The Founding Charism is a lived experience 8. The Charism is a safeguarded experience 9. The Charism is a deepened and constantly developed experience 10. Nature and structure of the Founding Chrism 11. Father Hannibal historizes (the inspiration of) the Rogate 11.1. The Holy Spirit prepares Hannibal to receive the Rogate 11.1.1.1. The holiness of life and the life of faith 11.1.1.2. The sensibility, love, and compassion for the poor 11.1.1.3. The intuition of the prayer to obtain good laborers 11.2. The Holy Spirit enlightens and guides Hannibal 11.3. The Rogate, initially, was a divine inspiration 11.4. The Rogate, afterward, was a gospel revelation 12. Date and place of the first inspiration 13. From the Church to St. John of Malta to the Avignone Quarter 14. The Priestly-Religious Vocation 15. The Christ of the Rogate in the Gospels 15.1. The mystery of consecration 15.2. Consecration and holiness 4 15.3. Consecration and mission 16. Jesus sees the crowds and feels compassion for them 17. Compassion is the primary element and soul of the Rogate 18. The plentiful harvest is in danger of being lost 18.1. The harvest and its conditions 19. The Rogate and the intimate sorrows 19.1. The intimate sorrows are a constitutive element of the Rogationist spirituality 19.2. The intimate sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary 20. The Rogate, the mystery of collaboration 21. The fourth vow of the Rogationists and the Daughters of Divine Zeal 21.1. To pray 21.2. The prayer dimension of the fourth vow 22. The mystery of ut mittat 23. Why must we pray? 23.1. Because God wants it 23.2. Because the benefit is exclusively ours 23.3. We must obey because it is a command 23.4. The Obedience to the Rogate fosters, confirms, and sustains vocation 23.5. Because Jesus prayed 24. Evangelical Rogation and holiness 25. The mystery of a presence 26. Eucharist and Rogation 27. The Eucharist, the Perennial Spring of the Rogate 28. Rogationist apostles of the Rogate 28.1. Father Hannibal's teaching 28.2. Father Hannibal, Apostle of the Rogate 28.3. The Church's Response 28.4. The Rogationists and the diffusion of the Rogate, today 28.5. The Missionaries of the Rogate 29. Union of the Sacred Allies of the Rogate (USAR) 29.1. The USAR is a divine revelation 29.2. What works does Father Hannibal want to save? 29.3. Without disregarding the charitable works 29.4. Union is the constituent element of the USAR 29.5. Who should pray and why? 5 29.6. The Eucharist, the heart of USAR 29.7. God's blessings on the greatest of works 29.8. The USAR at 360 degrees 29.9. Christ identifies himself with his Rogate 29.10. The Church recognizes herself in the Christ of the Rogate 29.11. Rogate – Priesthood – Eucharist 30. The Heavenly Rogationists 31. To be good laborers 31.1. Relationship between the Rogate and Charitable Work 31.2. Obligatory status of the apostolate of charity 31.3. Apostolate of the orphans: reasons and hypotheses of the choice 31.4. The Orphanages do not exclude other types of charitable works 31.5. Apostolate of assistance and evangelization of the poor 31.6. The Constitutions and the tradition 31.7. Faithfulness to charitable works 32. Obedience to the Rogate 33. The spirituality of the Rogationists and the Daughters of Divine Zeal flows from the Rogate 33.1. Note on visibility 33.2. Visibility of the Rogate, from a vocational perspective 33.3. Note on interiority 34. Eucharistic spirituality of the Rogationists 35. Dimensions of the Eucharistic Spirituality 36. The Agape Dimension of the Eucharistic Spirituality 36.1 The Theological Reason for Communion in a Religious Community 36.2. Charismatic Reasons for Eucharistic Spirituality 37. Agape-Rogate-Heart of Jesus 37.1 The Rogate is the principle of eternal charity because the priest is a mystery of love 37.2 The Rogate is the principle of eternal charity because the priesthood is the ministry of Christ’s charity 38. The Marian Dimension of the Rogationist Spirituality 39. The Most Holy Name of Jesus, St. Joseph, St. Anthony of Padua 40. The Path of Faithfulness 40.1 Jesus, Model of Faithfulness 6 40.2 Faithfulness to God's commandments 40.3 Faithfulness during the temporary profession 40.4 Faithfulness after perpetual profession 40.5 Fight to win Appendix I – The Consecrating Action of God in the Religious Profession Appendix II – Priestly Union of Prayer for Vocations (PUPV) – By-Laws Nature and purpose Organization Practical commitments Spiritual and pastoral benefits Office Appendix III –Union of Prayer for Vocations (UPV) – By-Laws Nature and mission Forms of membership Organization Spiritual benefits Prayer for good laborers Offices 7 Editorial Notes The present publication, The Rogate: Charism of the Rogationists, by Fr. Gaetano Ciranni, is the second issue of the recent series Quaderni di “In Cammino” (Notes “Along a Journey). In Cammino (Along a Journey) is a magazine, conceived as a supplement to the Studi Rogazionisti, is born as an aid to Rogationist formation, i.e., to accompany the new phase of the ongoing formation desired by the IX General Chapter (1998) and promoted by the X General Chapter (2004) with the approval of the Project of Rogationist Ongoing Formation drawn up by the Government General during their six-year term, 1998-2004. So far, the magazine, which has been published without a precise chronological deadline but occasionally as needed, has come out with two initial issues (Supplement to numbers 65-66 and 67 of the Studi Rogazionisti) and several special issues dedicated to particular moments of formation at the level of the Congregation, such as the annual Conference of the Superiors of Circumscription (2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008), the International Meetings of Formators (2002, 2005, 2008), and the Seminars on the Rogationist Priestly Alliance (2007-2008). The new series, which always pursue formative goals, are published research studies of individual Rogationist confreres who want to offer their organic and systematic contribution on the topics on Rogationist Formation. 8 Notes on the English edition 1. Citations a. Quotations from Church documents are taken from official translations as published in http://www.vatican.va. b. The English translation of Bible quotes are taken from the Revised Standard Version. In his writings, the Founder quotes the Bible in Latin using the Vulgate version. Some of these, particularly the Psalms, do not correspond to the current chapter and verse numbering. In these cases, the English translation is taken from the Duoay-Rheims 1899 version. c. The Author wrote these Notes in 2010. Understandably, he was quoting the Constitutions and Norms of the 1980 and 1998 editions. For integration, this English edition also reports texts of the current Constitutions of 2010 in some related topics. d. Quotations from the Declarations and Promises are taken from Appendix I of the English edition of the Constitutions of 2010. Most of the quotations from the documents of the Congregation are taken from the official English translations but retaining the reference to the pages in the Italian original. 2. Editor’s Notes a. The translators and editor have included in the English edition some notes which they deemed important to better render the meaning of a term, expression, or context. In-text notes are enclosed in parentheses, ex. (= word), while the footnotes are marked with an asterisk and EN for Editor’s Note (* EN:). 9 Foreword I often read manuscripts for publication. But since I am not “in charge of the works,” I always do it with some difficulty, mainly for lack of time, but sometimes also for the nature and content of the texts. However, it was not for this volume. I was immediately attracted to it. First, for the topic itself, because it concerns me as a Rogationist; but also for its style: clear, passionate, and engaging. The topic is all contained in the title: The Rogate: Charism of the Rogationists. The style is immediately indicated by the subtitle: Notes, Testimonies, Teachings On the meaning of the title, or the subject of the volume, there is nothing to clarify.
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